2020 THEME: MAKING APIS COUNT
ACC Senior Services $8,000
The goal of ACC’s Count and Be Counted project is to ensure that API Limited English Proficient older adults in the Sacramento region are counted. ACC will train staff/volunteers to educate older APIs throughout the region and create a video that includes Japanese, Tagalog, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese with recognized community leaders encouraging them to be counted and educating them on the benefits to the Census. The messages center edon demonstrating the value of the Census for API older adults, safety of their personal data, protecting themselves from scammers, and options for completing the Census forms.
Iu-Mien Community Services $4,000
Iu-Mien Community Services will reach out to elders and families to ensure a complete count of the Iu-Mien households in the Sacramento Region.
OCA Sacramento $3,000
OCA’s Stand with College Students, Making it Count! will reach out to API cultural clubs, service clubs, fraternities, sororities, Asian American studies students, and other API groups on campus to educate API students about the benefits of participating in Census 2020. Students will then go back to their families, friends, and community to make sure they are counted.
Full Circle Project, Sacramento State University $3,000
Student Ambassadors reached out to their peers to educate and encourage them to complete the Census. Ambassadors speak out on this video. Funds also supported the a Census workshop at the, Embracing Hmong Women Identities.
2018-2019 THEME: MAKING APIS COUNT
Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP) $10,000
HIP conducted census outreach and education in order to ensure that APIs, specifically the Southeast Asian Americans (SEAA), are counted in the 2020 Census through the following: 1) early communications outreach, 2) community events, 3) phone bank and door-to-door program.
Jakara Movement $8,000
Read: Reaching the Punjabi Community by Harjit Singh
Sacramento Punjabis Counted took a multi-pronged approach to ensuring that Punjabis in Sacramento, Yolo, and Placer counties are counted for the 2020 Census through the following: 1) local Punjabi radio programs, 2) community events, 3) workshops at local Gurdwaras, and 4) print and e-materials in Punjabi and English. Over 35,000 Punjabi speakers Sacramento home and are concentrated in many of the hard-to-count with other large Asian populations, especially in Natomas and Elk Grove which had the lowest percentage of participation in the county in 2010.
2019 Noodle Bowl: Full Circle Project, Sacramento State University $1,000
2018 Noodle Bowl: Legal Services of Northern California $1,000
2017 THEME: RESISTANCE
Asian Pacific Islander Queer Sacramento Coalition (APIQSC) $10,000
APIQSC's story speaks of community building and powerful resistance against oppression. The grant will support the expansion of the LGBTQ Filipinx group , as well as organizational capacity building around community outreach, organizing, and rebranding. They will organize talks on People of Color LGBTQ identities and the impacts of white supremacy culture; connect with API clergy to create more inclusive spaces inside churches; and facilitate a group of parents of API LGBTQ folks.
Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP) $8,000
HIP -- Sacramento Region's only API organization focused on integrated voter engagement as a tool for social and political change -- will provide a leadership development program for young Southeast Asian American women focused on health equity to help them effectively articulate their shared values on social justice, women's health equity, and mental health care.
ACC Senior Services $4,000
ACC Senior Services will partner with other API organizations to present a film series, with films exploring API history and contemporary experience exemplifying the theme of resistance. With each film, they will have a panel discussion to explore API histories and the unique strengths in API communities to resist, circumvent, or confront discrimination and racism.
Hmong Health Alliance (HHA) $4,000
HHA project will inspire and motivate Hmong women students at Sac State to become campus and community leaders through a one-day leadership summit. It will provide a space for Hmong women students to explore and embrace their identity and engage in dialogues on resisting social and cultural stigma that hinder them from reaching their full potential.
2017 Noodle Bowl: My Sister's House $1,000
Full Circle Project, Sacramento State University $15,000
Asian Pacific Islander Queer Sacramento Coalition $10,000
Hmong Innovating Politics $5,000
2016 Noodle Bowl: Asian Pacific Islander Queer Sacramento Coalition $1,000
Full Circle Project, Sacramento State University $15,000
KVIE $10,000