ARMY Against AAPI Hate
Below you will find non-profit organizations that support the AAPI community in various ways as well as resources to address anti-Asian hate and violence.
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HCCBC strives to preserve essential Hmong beliefs and restore acceptable cultural practices and values. HCCBC provides resources (such as help accessing social services), community based family support and empowerment through the promotion of health, education, cultural integration, and social services to strengthen Hmong families and communities throughout Butte County.
Mekong NYC aims to improve the quality of life of the Southeast Asian community in the Bronx (primarily Cambodian Americans and Vietnamese Americans) and throughout New York City by achieving equity through community organizing and healing, promoting arts, culture, and language, and creating a safety net by improving access to essential social services.
KAN-WIN is a non-profit, community-based organization that supports Asian-American women and children that are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. Their services include a 24-hour domestic violence crisis line, counseling, legal/social benefits advocacy, a transitional housing program, and community education/outreach.
It is the mission of the Asian Mental Health Collective to normalize and de-stigmatize mental health within the Asian community. The Asian Mental Health Collective aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide. They understand the difficulty finding a therapist who not only speaks an Asian language but is also sensitive to the challenges that are found in different Asian cultures.
CCED is an all volunteer, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization based in Los Angeles Chinatown that builds grassroots power through organizing, education, and mutual help. CCED works with residents to build a Chinatown with affordable housing, good jobs, a green environment, open recreational spaces, and quality education for all.
The mission of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) is to provide direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and to raise awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned, detained, and deported. Today, APSC facilitates the ROOTS program in prisons, provides community-based reentry services, and organizes deportation defense campaigns.
Maitri is a free, confidential, nonprofit organization based in the SF Bay Area that primarily helps families and individuals from South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives) facing domestic violence, emotional abuse, and cultural alienation. Services include referrals to mainstream organizations, information and informal peer counseling, free transportation, support group facilities, translation/interpretation, assistance with resumes and job application. Financial support is available for women in need of legal services, counseling, rental and living expenses, school tuition and driving lessons.
Welcome to Chinatown is a grassroots initiative that tries to support Chinatown businesses through the Longevity fund. The Longevity Fund will prioritize the most at-risk businesses based on cultural and socioeconomic barriers that have prevented them from applying for assistance programs, and will also consider how much their shuttering will impact the Chinatown community as a whole. The Sik Faan Fund focuses on providing fresh and nutritious food as well as essential goods through Manhattan Chinatown’s small business, restaurant, grocery, market, and tea purveyor partners.
The Filipino Community Center is dedicated to providing a safe space where Filipino families can access services, receive support, and build community. They foster and develop community empowerment, grassroots leadership, advocacy, and organizing to address the immediate and long term issues of our communities locally, and in the Philippines. They provide culturally competent programs and services, help community members access free and low-cost resources, connect families to grassroots organizations and advocates, as well as providing workers rights advocacy and a youth leadership program.
Kandelia is a nonprofit community organization based in Seattle that is providing direct programs, opportunities, and tools to address systemic inequities so immigrant and refugee families and communities can thrive without having to compromise values, heritage or ethnicity. Kandelia centers youth in their work—championing and building them up so they can be their full authentic selves. Kandelia provides job training programs, language programs, day programs/after-school programs, student & family support; skills class & workshops (family self-sufficiency especially for new immigrants) for parents.
The Jakara Movement is a grassroots community-building organization working to empower, educate, and organize Punjabi Sikhs, and other marginalized communities. With a focus on the interstices of education, health, gender, and social justice, the Jakara Movement inclusively engages large sections of the Sikh youth in various projects to strengthen their identity and consciousness as Sikhs, foster education through service-learning, and inspire activism and volunteerism.
SEACA creates spaces for new forms of leadership to emerge and provide support for the development of members of the community to create new and culturally relevant solutions to deep-rooted social, economic, and racial justice issues impacting the Southeast Asian community. They began as a youth leadership program in LA and over the years have expanded their programs to include youth organizing, creative arts and self-expression, and most recently, health and community building through food and gardening.
Through their community health initiative, the organization gives cooking lessons to students and the young and secured a plot of land and made it into a gardening space.
Tsuru for Solidarity is a nonviolent, direct action project of Japanese American social justice advocates working to end detention sites and support front-line immigrant and refugee communities that are being targeted by racist, inhumane immigration policies. They are an all-volunteer organization and they strive to educate, advocate, and protest to close all U.S. concentration camps, build solidarity with other communities of color that have experienced forced removal, detention, deportation, separation of families, and coordinate intergenerational, cross-community healing circles addressing the trauma of shared histories.
Red Canary Song is a grassroots collective of Asian American and Asian migrant sex workers and allies, supporting the organizing of Chinese massage parlor workers in NY. They aim to create a cohesive coalition of AAPI and Asian migrant sex workers and allies to advocate for protective policies in decriminalization of sex work and labor rights.
Helping Link has been committed to solving the needs of the Vietnamese community in Seattle by providing them with educational programs and resources in language, technology, and citizenship. They believe in supporting intergenerational families, nurturing communities, and fostering cultural resilience. Like a bridge that connects multiple points, Helping Link aims to unite and connect the Vietnamese community while also empowering members to celebrate their histories, cultures, and traditions.
APEN brings together a collective voice to develop an alternative agenda for environmental, social and economic justice. Through building an organized movement, they strive to bring fundamental changes to economic and social institutions that will prioritize public good over profits and promote the right of every person to a decent, safe, affordable quality of life, and the right to participate in decisions affecting our lives. They help form land trusts so that long time residents can own the homes they live in as well as organizing people to design and manage local renewable energy projects among other projects.
AAFC is a group of scholars, organizers, and writers that seeks to engage in intersectional feminist politics grounded within communities that include AAPI, multi-ethnic and diasporic Asian identities. The AAFC aims to create spaces for identity exploration, political education, community building, and advocacy through the events, workshops, and resources that they provide.
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations. They seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPI groups, develop leadership, promote visibility, educate their community, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations, and challenge anti-LGBTQ bias and racism.
The mission of Laos In The House is to promote storytelling in the Lao American refugee community through the mediums of art. By way of programming, events and partnership projects, we integrate storytelling with art, seeking to engage community members while giving voice to those who cannot do so for themselves, in the hopes of healing the scars of war and beginning the process of regular intercultural, intergenerational exchanges
KCF is a small, volunteer-based organization that works to address the needs of the underrepresented Chamorro community and preserve the heritage of the Mariana Islands including Guam, Saipan, Tinian and Rota through dance, music, language and peer mentoring. They provide tuition-free opportunities to perpetuate the Chamorro culture through movement and action including tuition-free dance, language and music classes as well as scholarships, peer mentoring and the Chamoru Immersion Camp that helps the participants to gain insight on the Chamoru culture, while developing an appreciation for the traditions, language and preservation of their native heritage.
NTAS is one of the longest running non-profit organizations to advocate for and empower all Tongan-Americans and other Pacific Islanders by creating programs and referrals that promote civic engagement, optimal health, youth development, education, the arts, and festivals that perpetuate Tongan culture and values.
Kundiman is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature. They create a space where Asian Americans can explore, through art, the unique challenges that face the new and ever changing diaspora.