6 Things You Can Do Right Now

  1. Support Make Noise Today and other organizations (we’ve gathered a great list below)

  2. Raise Awareness (sharing social media posts is simple and easy)

  3. Educate yourself and others (read up on actions being taken, history, terminology, etc.)

  4. Report incidents (write down and share hotline numbers with friends and family or use the AAPI database report form)

  5. Support Asian-owned businesses (tag us in your favorites so we can share too @makenoisetoday)

  6. Volunteer your time (see the list below for recommendations)

DONATE 

Bay Area orgs:

LA Orgs:

CCED LA: Builds grassroots power with low-income and immigrant communities through organizing, education, and mutual help in LA Chinatown. 501(c)(3)

SEACA LA: Works with Southeast Asian youth and their communities on leadership dev, education, advocacy, and community organizing. 501(c)(3)

Little Tokyo Service Center: Provides a comprehensive array of services to help low-income folks and others in need, while contributing to community revitalization and cultural preservation in Little Tokyo. 501(c)(3)

NY Orgs:

CAAAV: Building grassroots power across low-income Asian immigrant and refugee communities in NYC. 501(c)(3) 

Mekong NYC: Aims to improve the quality of life of the Southeast Asian community in the Bronx and throughout NYC. 501(c)(3)

Womankind: Works with survivors of gender-based violence, with an emphasis on helping Asian communities find refuge, recovery, and renewal. 501(c)(3)

 

Victims and Survivors Fund organized on GoFundMe by the Community Youth Center of San Francisco CYCSF, API Council, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Chinese Progressive Association, and New Breath Foundation

Support the Cause Against Anti-Asian Violence organized on GoFundMe, this covers evenly distributed donations to a number of organizations and they quickly raised $150K (the goal). So it is temporarily closed until they sort through everything. 

SUPPORT 

Organizations and Groups

  • Make Noise Today: Promotes unity within the Asian American diaspora and fellow minority groups to broaden perspectives as one collective voice to stand up against racial inequality.

  • Act-to-Change: Act To Change is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to address bullying, including in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community

  • Stop AAPI Hate: The Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University launched the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center to track and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States

  • National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum: NAPAWF is the only organization focused on building power with AAPI women and girls to influence critical decisions that affect our lives, our families and our communities

  • Rise: From translating ballots into different languages to making sure that survivor rights are heard, Rise trains grassroots organizers to pen their rights into existence no matter where they’re from

  • Oakland Chinatown Coalition: The Oakland Chinatown Coalition is a broad, neighborhood based coalition of service and community based organizations, businesses and professionals, churches, and residents who live, work, play, and shop in Chinatown

  • Coalition for Community Safety and Justice (CCSJ) which comprises four organizations: Chinese for Affirmative Action, Chinese Progressive Organization, Community Youth Center, and the New Breath Foundation.

  • Rapid Response Fund at the San Francisco Foundation, to provide quick-turnaround grants to grassroots nonprofits that are addressing emergency needs in the community.

  • @asiansformentalhealth: Asian Diaspora Mental Health Social Justice

  • Asian Pacific Environmental Network: Building power and resilience in working-class Asian immigrant and refugee communities

  • South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT): a nation­al move­ment strat­e­gy and advo­ca­cy orga­ni­za­tion com­mit­ted to racial jus­tice through struc­tur­al change

  • The South Asian Bar Association of Northern California (SABA-NC): ensuring Bay Area South Asian attorneys give back to the Bay Area South Asian community

  • Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: a national organization founded in 1974, protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans.

  • Ascend - Pan-Asian Leaders Canada: partner and progress with Canadian organizations to develop and advance Pan-Asian talent

  • The National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP): the premier leadership organization for Asian and Asian American professionals in North America

Canadian Organizations and Groups

  • South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario: advocates for reforming laws that negatively impact South Asian communities. Only clinic in Canada that provides legal services in multiple South Asian languages, including Hindi, Urdu, Bangla, Tamil, Kannada and Punjabi

  • Council of Agencies Serving South Asians: an umbrella organization of agencies, groups, and individuals that provide services to the South Asian Community

  • South Asian Women's Centre: increase self awareness of South Asian Women and to empower women to develop their social and cultural potential

  • South Asian Mental Health: aims to empower community members to recognize and accept mental health as an essential part of their wellness through education, prevention, and building resilience

  • South Asian Canadians Health Social & Services: providing health care and social services as well as culturally and linguistically appropriate services to South Asian and all other communities

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What’s the playbook?

We stand in solidarity with all marginalized communities against racism, inequality, and hate.

Systemic racism affects everyone and dismantling it is long-term work.

1. Educate 

No one is born racist. Racism is taught. Empathy, love, inclusion, diversity and justice can also be taught. Follow social accounts and sites that spotlight education about combating racism, read up on anti-racist works, and look for resources that work for you to educate yourself on how to be an agent of change.

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2. Donate

Donate to funds and support initiatives. Identify organizations that are well-versed in advocacy work—they’ve done the groundwork and already have staff and volunteers, networks, research, and campaigns in motion.

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3. Support

Patronize small businesses owned and operated by BIPOC. Your support will encourage the community at large to help ensure their success, especially throughout the on-going COVID-19 crisis. Stop supporting organizations that promote hate.

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4. Vote

While the presidential election has passed, there are always upcoming elections on the local level. Creating the change you want to see means continuing to stay up to date with what’s going on in your community and holding truth to power.

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5. Initiate

As uncomfortable as these conversations may be, it is crucial to continue sharing your experiences and what you’ve learned about race and racism with those who are unaware or intolerant.

We encourage you to learn about and consider supporting the following organizations that work to advance social justice including: Color of Change, National Action Network, National Urban League, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Equal Justice Initiative, and Black Lives Matter.