2022-2023 THEME: COMBATTING ANTI-ASIAN HATE AND ANTI-BLACK RACISM
Los Rios Colleges Foundation $7,500
Reducing Recidivism through Ethnic Studies Program
This proposal is for the design and development of 2 Asian American Studies courses for the Cosumnes River College’s Prison and Reentry Education Program (PREP). Funds will support the launch of the inaugural Ethnic and Asian American Studies college credit course to serve incarcerated students in the Sacramento region. The proposed courses will focus on teaching the history of Black-Asian American solidarity movements and be offered initially at Mule Creek State Prison (3785 men). This project is inspired by the Asian Prisoner Support Committee’s (APSC) ROOTS (Restoring Our Original True Selves) program, a weekly class at San Quentin and Solano State Prisons, which offers lessons about immigration/refugee history, leadership, and reentry planning to Asian American and Pacific Islander inmates currently serving life sentences. The Los Rios Ethnic Studies courses will be developed in collaboration with APSC.
Sacramento API Regional Network $7,500
Building AA & PI Capacity to Build Power and Engage in Racial Solidarity
Asian American Liberation Network or AALN’s powerbuilding project seeks to strengthen our network and establish new and innovative ways to unite more cohesively, collaborate, and work together through the development of a Power-Mapping and Landscape Analysis that will advance a multi-racial democracy. The power-building will map out our community assets, identify gaps in programs and services, and catalyze power in our communities. Through this analysis, they will create a collaborative model that builds strength among already tight-knit allies. They will also call on funders to support and address the inequities and unjust systems and underscore the woefully inadequate attention paid to AA & PI communities..
Sacramento Filipinx LGBTQIA+ $5,000
Queer Source and Magkaisa
Sac Fil will organize the second annual QueerSource, the first community based Pride event in Elk Grove that celebrates LGBTQIA+ youth and provides resources to the Elk Grove and Sacramento community. They will collaborate with the same organizations (Asian American Liberation Network, Trans Queer Youth Collective, Sacramento LGBT Center, and more) from 2022’s QueerSource and will invite additional Queer and Transgender BIPOC led organizations to continue the momentum to provide access to free resources focused on mental health, physical health, advocacy, LGBTQIA+ education, and youth services. While QueerSource will always be open to the entire community, this year, Sac Fil will place intentional focus on the BIPOC LGBTQIA+ community in Elk Grove/Sacramento with the purpose of bringing awareness to anti-Blackness and anti-Asian hate in the LGBTQIA+ community and community at large. To do this, Sac Fil will host workshops, panel discussions, and invite speakers and performers who are known advocates in the community. As a second project, Sac Fil will also co-organize Magkaisa 2023 with local organizations to integrate LGBTQIA+ culture and content into the community at large in Elk Grove.
Full Circle Project, (California State University, Sacramento) $4,000
Building Solidarity to Confront Anti-Asian Hate
The Asian American Studies (AAS) program and the Full Circle Project (FCP) will address crosscultural / cross-racial solidarity building, anti-Asian hate impacting our Asian communities, and working to combat anti-Black racism within our API communities. This proposal aims to work closely with regional Stop the Hate (STH) partners and APIs Rise to build and strengthen the next generation of API leadership for the Sacramento region.
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities $2,500
Pacific Islander Leaders of Tomorrow
EPIC’s most robust effort at developing anti-racist leadership is through Pacific Islander Leaders of Tomorrow (PILOT). Acting as the primary mode of youth leadership development and base-building, PILOT is a community-focused program created to increase the number of emerging leaders in the Pacific Islander community. It’s one of the only programs nationally that focuses on NHPI youth leadership and organizing, grounding them in decolonial anti-oppression work, and cultivating values and skills that are culture-based and community-focused. In the past six years, EPIC has developed over 180 young NH/PI leaders through twelve cohorts of our PILOT program. APIs RISE Fund will support two youth from Sacramento region for the PILOT program.
2021 THEME: COMBATTING ANTI-ASIAN HATE AND ANTI-BLACK RACISM
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities $8,000
Black Pacific Alliance
Inspired by the work of Dr. Connie Wun and AAPI Women Lead, EPIC believes that the racism that Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) face is made possible by anti-Blackness and anti-indigeneity. EPIC strives to be a pro-Black and pro-indigenous organization, which shows up in various aspects of our advocacy, leadership development, and research programs. The most explicit space for combating anti-Blackness is in the Black Pacific Alliance. The APIs RISE Fund grant will contribute to: 1) organizing an in-person convening; 2) establishing a formal organization focusing on addressing and eliminating anti-Blackness in the Pacific Islander community led by Black and Pacific Islander identified individuals and 3) creating a story collection and sharing project.
Sacramento Asian Pacific Cultural Village $10,000
Solidarity and Movement-Building within Black and Asian Communities
With the support of APIs Rise Fund and the Sacramento Regional Community Foundation, the Sacramento Asian Pacific Cultural Village (a fiscally sponsored project of ABAS Law Foundation), will produce Solidarity and Movement-Building within Black and Asian Communities – a four-part project of the 2022 Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival. Outcomes for this project include: 1) Greater appreciation for the depth of Black and Asian solidarity and community-based social justice activism; 2) Increased level of dialogue around race and racial tension among both festival-goers and project participants; 3) Increased engagement of youth and transitional youth (17-24 years old) who are comfortable using forms of artistic and cultural expression to build bridges and create social change.
Sunny Side Theatre Co. $3,000
Parallel Veins: Conversations on Colorism
"Parallel Veins: Conversations on Colorism" is a project dedicated to shedding light on the existence and affects of anti-Asian hate and anti-Black racism in the Sacramento API community, while constructively engaging viewpoints on how to positively move forward together. The proposed project would be a three- night event that would involve a group of 10 speakers each performing a personal essay, poem, monologue or song (about 3-7 minutes long each) that explores and honors API cultural identities, experiences, and the affects of colorism on individuals in the API community, Black community, and multi-racial members of both. It is also a way of utilizing the unique platform theatre creates as an opportunity to hear, acknowledge and encourage the sharing of experiences, and encourage common ground.
Council on American Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley/Central California $9,000
Combatting Anti-Asian Hate and Anti-Blackness
CAIR members’ own experience in confronting Islamophobia informs how they will address anti-Asian hate impacting our Asian American and Pacific Islander siblings. Specifically, CAIR will provide legal services and community education, while also sharpening the focus on combating anti-Asian hate and violence. To combat anti-Black racism, in addition to incorporating the importance of it in the Bystander Intervention Trainings, efforts will focus on Black History programming in the community and a program called the Muslim Gamechangers Network (MGN)—a four-month social justice training program for Muslim youth ho learn identity, history, social responsibility, and organizing tools, all grounded in a social justice worldview.
2020 THEME: COMBATTING ANTI-ASIAN HATE AND ANTI-BLACK RACISM
Sacramento API Regional Network $10,000
The Network will host a virtual roundtable discussion, “Showing Up: Intergenerational API Activism in California.” Speakers will explore social justice movements and their relation to the anti-Black’ness in Asian communities. They will also host a photographic documentary and oral essay, "Lifting Up: Elevating Generational API Activism in California," to highlight the activism work in the region amongst APIs; engage and educate the community on shared strife with Black siblings; and deconstruct anti-Blackness internally and promote solidarity.
View the townhall co-hosted by APIs Rise Fund, Sacramento API Regional Network, the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, and Everyday Impact Consulting to discuss the racist incidents of anti-asian hate/violence due to COVID-19 in the Sacramento region, current research and policy on anti-Asian hate, and the movements and resources addressing racism and violence against the API community.
Jakara Movement $9,000
The Jakara Movement aims to build a multi-pronged approach to engage youth, adults, immigrants, and large sections of the of the Punjabi Sikh community. Rooting the project in academic research, Jakara Movement’s project will lead discussions with Punjabi Sikh young people on anti-Black racism in the community. The experience will be made into a video and featured at the monthly movie night. Complementing this screening, youth will lead a conversation around anti-Black racism on Punjabi radio.
Hmong Innovating Politics $10,000
HIP will create core training and workshops built through the lens of racial equity and justice for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian Americans. HIP aims to create the conditions that support an increased number of engaged Hmong and Southeast Asian American (SEAA) youth and young adults in systems change work that challenge the institutions that reinforce systemic racism. Read the Final Report.
Asians for Black Lives in partnership with Black Zebra $1,500
A4BL will network with other Asian organizations in the region to learn about how their members have been impacted by anti-Asian violence, both related to and preceding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies $4,000
Support the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies’ work in further tracking and reporting racist and xenophobic incidents; the dissemination of easily digestible action alerts and communications; and, advocacy focusing on civic and community leaders. View the Townhall co-hosted by APIs Rise Fund, Sacramento API Regional Network, the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, and Everyday Impact Consulting to discuss the racist incidents of anti-asian hate/violence due to COVID-19 in the Sacramento region, current research and policy on anti-Asian hate, and the movements and resources addressing racism and violence against the API community. This was a special grant from AAPIP.
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