COMMUNITY ACTION
SF BAY AREA
As we spotlight the increasing violence against our elders and communities, CAPE's focus is to bring long-term safety to these local communities by supporting community-based organizations who are and have been doing the work, cross-culturally and cross-racially, on the ground.
Toward that end, here is a preliminary list of community-based organizations with a track record of working in solidarity with other communities of color. We are starting with SF/Bay Area organizations and will roll out to other cities.
This page will be updated to reflect the most updated information. Our last update was on 2/23/2021.
For any questions, please contact info@capeusa.org
Oakland Chinatown Ambassadors Program
Asian Health Services is serving as a fiscal sponsor for a Chinatown Ambassador Program and a victim’s fund for individuals and families impacted by the uptick in crime and assaults. The Chinatown Ambassador Program will be piloted as part of a comprehensive community-centered approach to public safety.
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) is an environmental justice organization with deep roots in California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities. They bring together a collective voice to develop an alternative agenda for environmental, social and economic justice. A donation will help APEN build grassroots leadership in immigrant communities in Oakland, Richmond, and beyond; create a world in which nobody has to live in fear of eviction; and beat back Big Oil and fight for an environment in which all families can thrive.
AAPI Women Lead
AAPI Women Lead aims to strengthen the progressive political and social platforms of Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the U.S. through the leadership of self-identified AAPI women and girls. Their goal is to challenge and help end the intersections of violence against and within their communities. They do this work in solidarity with other communities of color. Donations to AAPI Women Lead will help them create spaces for self-identified Asian and Pacific Islander women and girls to tell their stories.
APIENC
APIENC builds queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander power to amplify their voices and increase the visibility of their communities. Donations to APIENC help to power their trans and gender nonconforming healing and support spaces, queer and trans API leadership development trainings, values-based organizing workshops, intergenerational community-building events, and oral history recording and dissemination.
Asian Prisoner Support Committee
Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) provides direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander prisoners and raises awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned, detained, and deported. Since 2002, APSC has led programs in prisons, organized anti-deportation campaigns, provided resources to “lifers,” and developed culturally relevant reentry programs. Donations to APSC will help to provide support to Asian and Pacific Islander prisoners in California and raise awareness about the impact of incarceration on our communities.
Chinese Progressive Association
The Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people. Donations to CPA will help to continue building the grassroots leadership of low-income, working-class immigrants and organizing the working-class Chinese community in San Francisco.
Filipino Community Center
The Filipino Community Center (FCC) 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 their communities locally, and in the Philippines. Donations to FCC will help to provide culturally competent programs and services, help community members access free and low-cost resources, and connect families to grassroots organizations and advocates.
Asian Health Services
Asian Health Services (AHS) works to serve and advocate for the medically underserved, including the immigrant and refugee Asian community, and to ensure equal access to health care services regardless of income, insurance status, language, or culture. AHS provides more than primary care services, including mental health, case management, nutrition, and dental care to more than 50,000 patients in English and over 14 Asian languages. Donations to AHS will help change the health of their immigrant, refugee, and low-income families, and address the evolving needs of their patients while protecting their frontline staff at the forefront of COVID-19.
New Breath Foundation
The New Breath Foundation offers hope, healing, and new beginnings for Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) new immigrants and refugees, people impacted by incarceration and deportation, and survivors of violence. It was founded in 2017 by Eddy Zheng, the first formerly incarcerated “juvenile lifer” to serve as Founder/President of a philanthropic Foundation. Donations to New Breath Foundation will help mobilize resources to support AAPI harmed by violence and the unjust immigration and criminal justice systems.
Trybe Inc.
Trybe Inc. is a community based non-profit rooted in the Eastlake/San Antonio/Fruitvale area of Oakland, serving youth, young adults and families with high need in Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and the greater East Bay Area. Through after-school programs, early-childhood playgroups, mentoring, skills-building, leadership training and paid internship opportunities, and large community building events, Trybe helps shift youth and their families' lives in positive ways and nurtures indigenous leaders from within the community. Donations to Trybe will help Oakland families get through the COVID-19 crisis.
Communities for Restorative Youth Justice
Since 2011, Communities for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) has been building community relationships and mobilizing young leaders to organize and create in the movement to end mass incarceration and youth criminalization. CURYJ believes that every young person has a sacred purpose, and works to facilitate youth in discovery and embrace of their stories, talents and contributions within community instead of isolation and criminalization of their circumstances. Donations to CURYJ will help provide training and technical assistance to elevate youth voice and power.
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
The East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) advances economic, racial, and social justice by building a just economy based on good jobs and healthy communities. They address the root causes of economic injustice by developing strategic alliances among community, labor, and people of faith to build power and create change with low-income workers and communities of color. Donations to EBASE will help the organization win good jobs and build healthy communities.
Anti Police Terror Project
The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. They support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing. Donations to APTP will help print materials, pay for subscriptions such as web hosting, facility rental for meetings and workshops, and more.
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) works with immigrant workers employed in the Bay Area’s garment, home care, hotel, restaurant, assembly and other low-wage industries, and low-income immigrant youth in Oakland. AIWA seeks to empower women and youth through education, leadership development and collective action, so that they can fight for dignity and justice in their daily lives and improve their working and living conditions. Donations to AIWA will help with developing the collective leadership of low-income immigrant women and youth to organize for positive changes in their living and working conditions.
Coleman Advocates
Coleman Advocates believes that all children and families deserve access to high quality education, living wage jobs, family-supporting benefits, affordable housing, and a voice in the decisions that affect us. Since 1975, Coleman Advocates has pioneered programs and policies to expand opportunity for San Francisco’s children, youth and families, Donations to Coleman Advocates will help make 2021 the year Black and Brown students receive the education equity they deserve in San Francisco.
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants (CERI) works to improve the social, emotional, psychological, economic, and physical health of refugees and immigrants from Southeast Asia affected by war, torture, genocide or other forms of extreme trauma. Donations to CERI will help fund the recovery process for our traumatized refugee community and transform the lives of refugees and immigrants and their families.
Filipino Advocates for Justice
Filipino Advocates for Justice (FAJ) has been an advocate for immigrant and civil rights by providing direct services, developing leaders, and organizing and advocating on issues important to the Filipino community as a historically underserved ethnic minority. They serve at-risk middle and high school-age youth, low-wage workers vulnerable to exploitation, and the newly arrived immigrants and undocumented, by helping them navigate the challenges of life in the US. Donations to FAJ will help advance their organizing and advocacy work and improve the livelihood of vulnerable and underserved immigrant communities.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Named after civil rights hero Ella Baker, the Ella Baker Center organizes with Black, Brown, and low-income people to shift resources away from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong. Donations to the Ella Baker Center will resource a national movement calling for a shift away from a culture of policing and punishment and towards schools, housing, employment, and healthcare for communities hit hardest by mass incarceration.
AYPAL
AYPAL is a leadership development, community organizing and coalition building organization that seeks to create healthy, safe, and thriving communities. It practices political education, leadership development, and arts activism with youth in Oakland to produce youth led campaigns for school and neighborhood transformation. Donations to AYPAL will go towards securing youth stipends for AYPAL core leaders.
Family Bridges
Family Bridges serves approximately 10,000 clients — principally monolingual and LEP Asian-language speaking, moderate-to-low income, East Bay residents. Programs include the Hong Fook Community-Based Adult Services Centers, Hong Lok Senior Centers, the Friendly Visitors program, the Social Services program, the Lake Merritt Child Care Center, and Community Health Home program. Donations to Family Bridges will help provide needed support for vulnerable community members.
Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus promotes, advances, and represents the legal and civil rights of API communities. It focuses on housing rights, immigration and immigrants’ rights, labor and employment issues, student advocacy (ASPIRE), civil rights and hate violence, national security, and criminal justice reform. Donations to Advancing Justice — ALC will ensure that low-income, immigrant, and underserved Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have access to free direct legal services and the most effective civil rights advocacy possible.
Stop AAPI Hate
The Stop AAPI Hate reporting center tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California and where possible throughout the United States. Its approach recognizes that in order to effectively address anti-Asian racism we must work to end all forms of structural racism leveled at Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. Donations to Stop AAPI Hate will enable them to track and respond to the surge in racism and xenophobia.