Resources & Links
ORGANIZE
Asian Organizations Across the Bay Area Join Forces to Demand Action Against Violence
Tips if you witness or experience hate by Stop AAPI Hate
NAPABA Hate Crimes Task Force and Pro Bono Legal Resources
Take a Bystander Intervention Training hosted by Hollaback/Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago
DONATE
Bay Area orgs:
APENEJ : Asian Pacific Environmental Network, currently leading the force in Oakland. 501(c)(3)
Oakland Vietnamese Community Center: Delivers 30k meals/month for 2.5k clients, mostly elders. Sadly burned down on 2/6
Asian Prisoner Support Committee: Dedicated to support API prisoners and deportees. 501(c)(3)
Chinese Progressive Association: Empowers the working class immigrant Chinese community. 501(c)(3)
Filipino Cultural Center: Helping Filipino families access services and build community
Asian Law Caucus: Focuses on housing rights, immigration, civil rights, and labor issues, among others. 501(c)(3)
APIENC: API Equality Northern California, builds queer and transgender API power. 501(c)(3)
Stop AAPI Hate: Aggregating and responding to incidents of hate, harassment, and more against APIs in CA. 501(c)(3)
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)
Stupski Foundation: We Must Address Rising Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans
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
Community Groups Responding to the Violence
Oakland Chinatown Coalition (fiscally sponsored by Asian Health Services)
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
Sign
VOLUNTEER
Keep Elderly Safe
Hundreds of people are volunteering to escort elderly Asian Americans to help keep them safe
Oakland Foot Patrol Volunteering - Google Doc
READ
Medium: What API ERGs can do in the wake of anti-API violence
NYTimes: The Many Lives of Steven Yeun
NYTimes: The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020 by Cathy Park Hong
LitHub: Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories
Oakland Voices: Crime, race, safety: what’s really happening in Oakland Chinatown? by Momo Chang and Darwin BondGraham
Traditional Chinese: 罪案， 種族，安全： 屋崙華埠究竟正在發生什麼？
Simplified Chinese: 罪案， 种族，安全： 奥克兰华埠究竟正在發生什么？
LISTEN
It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders (NPR): Cathy Park Hong's Asian American Reckoning And The 'Model Minority' Stereotype
Self-Evident Show (every episode is fantastic)
Asian Enough (LA Times): Viet Thanh Nguyen