Local NYC and National Asian organizations to volunteer and/or donate*

Volunteer to chaperone elders and others in NYC Chinatown both are hoping to expand to more locations:

• Protect Chinatown https://www.protectchinatown.com/
• SafeWalks  https://safewalx.com/en/welcome/

Local NYC Non profits:

• Asian American Federation https://www.aafederation.org/
• Coalition for Asian Children and Families CACF https://www.cacf.org/
• CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities  https://caaav.org/
• Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc. (CPC)  https://www.cpc-nyc.org/
• Asian Americans for Equality AAFE https://www.aafe.org/
• Chhaya CDC  https://chhayacdc.org/
• Mekong NYC https://mekongnyc.org/
• Desis Up and Rising DRUM  https://www.drumnyc.org/
• Sapna NYC  http://www.sapnanyc.org/
• Minkwon Center  http://minkwon.org/
• The Brooklyn Chinese-American Association (BCA)  https://www.bca.net/eng/home.html
• South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS)  https://www.sacssny.org/
• Damayan Migrant Workers Association  https://www.damayanmigrants.org/
• Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association http://cswa.org/?lang=en
• Adhikaar  https://adhikaar.org/
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) https://www.aaldef.org/
• Equality Labs  https://www.equalitylabs.org/
• Red Canary Song https://www.redcanarysong.net/
• Korean American Family Service Center (KAFSC) https://kafsc.org/
• Sakhi for Southeast Asian Women https://www.sakhi.org/
• Japanese American Association, www.jaany.org
• National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum NY Chapter   https://www.napawfnyc.org/
• Welcome to Chinatown  https://www.welcometochinatown.com
• Send Chinatown Love https://www.sendchinatownlove.com/
• Heart of Dinner   https://www.heartofdinner.org/
• Think!Chinatown https://www.thinkchinatown.org/
• Womenkind  https://www.iamwomankind.org/
• Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW)  https://aaww.org/
• Asian Women Giving Circle   http://asianwomengivingcircle.org/
• Asian American Arts Alliance A4   https://www.aaartsalliance.org/
• Korean American Community Foundation (KACF)  https://kacfny.org/

National Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) Groups:

• Asian American Advancing Justice  (AAJC)  https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/
• National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) http://www.nqapia.org/wpp/
• APIA Vote  https://www.apiavote.org/
• Asian Mental Health Collective  https://www.asianmhc.org/
• Tsuru for Solidarity, https://tsuruforsolidarity.org/
• National Korean American Service & Education Consortium’s (NAKASEC) https://nakasec.org/
• South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)  https://saalt.org/
• Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC) https://www.empoweredpi.org/
• Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund   https://saldef.org/

* List compiled by Melinda Chu. Melinda Chu is on the Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) Steering Committee and the Steering Committee of the Asian Affinity Roundtable. Melinda is a serial connector of all things Asian American, working at the intersection of government, nonprofit and business communities in New York City. A graduate of Grinnell College, she was on the board of the Girls & Boys Projects (Institute for Labor & Community), a New York Cares volunteer, served on the Grants Advisory Committee of the New York Women’s Foundation and has worked as an account director at IW Group and a paralegal in the Law Department of Time Inc.

Anti-racism Resources

AAPI Compiled Resources List (document)

New List of AAPI Resources by Racial Equity Tools (document)

How to Help Your AAPI Friends Right Now What does it mean to be an ally? When is allyship performative? by Lyrica Fils-Aimé LCSW-R, RPT-S (article)

Anti-Asian Racism Has Families Fearing For Their Safety by Melissa Mills (article)

How to Talk to Your Kids About Scary Events, Like Last Week’s Events in Atlanta by Deborah Lee (article)

Educator Resources – How to talk to Students about events in Atlanta (March 2021) (document)

Asian American Bar Association publication: A Rising Tide of Hate and Violence

Asian American Federation Anti-hate Safety Resources: www.aafederation.org/aaf-safety-resources/

http://www.antiracistalliance.com

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