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HOME > GRANTS & SERVICES > ROSTER OF GRANT RECIPIENTS
Roster of Grant Recipients
Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Youth in Detention Project for peer health education collaborative.
Asian American Dance Performances
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Dance workshop classes and student-run lecture demonstrations in Mission district public schools involving mixed groups of Asian and Latino students.
Asian American Theater Co.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Writing & production of "Love Like This Theater" targeting API queer youth to raise HIV/AIDS awareness.
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: After-school peer counseling.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Support Project Bridges Family Esteem Seminars, which increase parental involvement in children's schooling through leadership training and education.
Amount: $6,000
Purpose: Support four programs (Projects ACE,ALL STARS, BRIDGES, and PLUS) providing direct services to 251 at-risk youth through afterschool programs and job training.
Asian Americans Together
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Expand core programs and the AAT Essay Contest (a career planning day for students and parents, a art exhibit and essay contest on diversity themes) for larger Eden area, including San Lorenzo, San Leandro and Hayward.
Asian Community Mental Health Services
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: For a support group and leadership training serving Cambodian youth in Oakland. Program will publish creative writing and art work of the youth participants.
Amount: $19,990
Purpose: General support of API Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership project's Oakland site, which trains youth in community organizing and promotes cross-cultural understanding
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Run a cultural awareness and support group for Cambodian and Vietnamese youth.
Amount: $18,000
Purpose: Enhance youth leadership and organizing program by adding anti-discrimination & anti-hate crimes component and working with youth from Afghan coalition.
Asian Health Services
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Leadership development of Community Health Peer Leaders through curriculum development, recruitment, training, outreach, and participation in a statewide legislative health conference.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Health care services and education for API youth, espcecially high-risk Southeast Asian youth.
Asian Immigrant Women's Advocates
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Address literacy and citizenship education for older, low-income, Chinese and Vietnamese-Chinese immigrant women working in the garment, hotel and manufacturing industries.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Support the Workplace Literacy Project, which educates low-income, limited-English speaking immigrant women workers in basic English literacy and workplace rights.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Expand program teaching leadership skills and civic participation to low-income Chinese and Vietnamese youth and to develop training manual & video for other organizations working with immigrant youth.
Asian Law Alliance
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: Support outreach and citizenship application assistance for Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino and Indo-American seniors in Santa Clara County to offset a 75% cut in State funding.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Working with Vietnamese Voluntary Foundation, to supplement Office of Refugee Resettlement services funds for outreach and legal assistance for Vietnamese elderly.
Asian Law Caucus
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Legal clinics, impact litigation, and work on state legislative reforms for Asian immigrants, especially those from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
Amount: $10,900
Purpose: Legal representation of immigrants needing assistance with disability waiver applications; develop workshops specifically to help the Lao and Hmong communities.
Amount: $12,000
Purpose: Increase Board knowledge of raising major gifts from private donors and on-line charitable giving.
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Support the Laotian Organizing Project, an environmental advocacy group for Southeast Asians in Contra Costa County.
Amount: $6,000
Purpose: Build infrastructure and leadership skills development.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Ensure safe living and working environments for Laotian population by building alliances with Latino and African American communities.
Asian Pacific Psychological Services
Amount: $15,500
Purpose: Strengthen financial management skills and create internal accounting procedures.
Asian Perinatal Advocates
Amount: $16,500
Purpose: Assist with applications and preparation for INS interviews, work with volunteer networks for tutoring, especially for residents in the Tenderloin and Visitacion Valley communities.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Support the Asian Parents Empowerment Project, which promotes economic self-sufficiency and leadership development for monolingual, low-income immigrants.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Assess fiscal health and develop a financial management plan.
Asian Women’s Resource Center
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Respond to youth participants' request to interact more with youth from other cultures; service projects are planned with the Good Samaritan Family Resource Center, serving primarily Latino Youth.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: To continue "Youth Leadership Training Program" providing peer support and educational workshops for low-income youth. Youth are actively involved in planning and evaluating the program.
Amount: $7,000
Purpose: Increase the capacity of the After-School Tutorial program to serve a greater number of low-income children.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Expand tutorial services for Asian youth and hire special needs teachers for children with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Promote economic self-sufficiency of low-income Asian women through pre-employment training, education, job training, English language skills and support.
Asian Women’s Shelter
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Enable their expanded Children's Advocates program to provide separate therapy and counseling activities.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Explore and test ways to diversify funding sources as a means of creating long-term financial stability.
Amount: $8,000
Purpose: Food, housing, counseling and legal services for Asian women and children leaving domestic violence situations.
Cambodian Community Development, Inc.
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: Legal services and to develop community advocacy to protect Cambodian refugees (47% living in poverty), who are legal residents, and are facing deportation because of minor crimes.
Cambodian New Generation
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: At-risk intervention providing counseling & tutoring to Southeast Asian youth, parenting workshops and community resource pamphlet.
Career Resources Development Center
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Expand journalism project working with Asian children and African American children focusing on team building skills and cross-cultural communications by producing a "Kids Map of the Tenderloin."
Charity Cultural Services Center
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: For training sanctioned by the Carpenters Union, vocational English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, and help learning the union system of obtaining job assignments.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Support youth empowerment, leadership training, and cross-cultural awareness programs serving Asian and Latino youth. Youth plan and organize their own symposia and participate in community events.
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Support workshops for immigrant parents whose children are students at Galileo, Newcomer and Lincoln high schools.
Chinatown Community Development Center
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Reduce isolation and secure health care and in-home supports for elderly Filipinos from the Tenderloin residing in the International Hotel.
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: To help 30 workers secure and retain union-scale construction jobs, with training on the complicated union system, for graduates of the City College vocational ESL program.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Youth Intervention Program to conduct workshops on careers in construction & law enforcement to at-risk Asian youth & counselors of Community Youth Center (CYC).
Amount: $13,700
Purpose: Help Visitacion Valley social service agencies learn how to better serve high influx of Asian residents.
Amount: $19,000
Purpose: Research, plan and implement new job training opportunities in previously unexplored areas (e.g., health care, biotech, and package delivery).
Chinese Newcomers Service Center
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: To continue naturalization services, including application assistance, legal counseling, citizenship and ESL classes for Asian immigrants in the San Francisco area to offset cuts in State funding.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Help fund Coordinator position for naturalization services; for individual client services and community education programs in the Chinese and Chinese-Vietnamese communities.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Citizenship classes and services for Chinese immigrants in San Francisco.
Chinese Progressive Association
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Support youth work project, Monsoon Jr. Journal, a documentary of Asian youth culture in the Bay Area.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Personnel and operating costs of the Chinatown Housing Justice Program, which empowers Chinatown tenants to address substandard housing conditions through community outreach and organizing.
Community Educational Services
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Expand use of Youth Coordinators in programs and activities to teach communication strategies allowing African American and Asian Youth opportunities to learn more about each other's cultures. Program works with Francisco Middle School (enrollment is 44% Asian, 87% of whom live below poverty line.)
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Expand youth-led Leadership Group establishing better links with other programs and resources to serve youth. They will also represent young people’s concerns at community meetings and events.
Community Youth Center
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Offer Workforce 2000 program in the Richmond District of San Francisco. (Teaches low-income youth job search skills and helps youth prepare for working in a multicultural environment.)
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Youth service learning project focusing on Asian teen smoking.
Donaldina Cameron House
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Expansion of youth retreat/conferences to include 48 Asian-American and non-Asian youth. Youth will be able to explore causes of discrimination and racial and ethnic intolerance.
Family Bridges, Inc. (formerly Oakland Chinatown Community Council)
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: Restore information and referral services, ESL and citizenship classes for Asian immigrants in Oakland that were cut by the State.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Support an electronic newsletter which will give students from many different backgrounds and communities a rare opportunity to exchange thoughts in a non-threatening environment.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Provide educational and cultural awareness trips for youth enrolled in the Family Bridges youth program. Trips will be done in cooperation with local Latino youth organization.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Offer career track programs and job training to TANF recipients.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Support the Lincoln Youth Center, which has after-school tutorials, counseling, skills training, substance abuse prevention, and recreation for elementary school children.
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: For a language consortium to provide translation services for clients and patients of mainstream institutions in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Lao, Mien, Cambodian and Farsi.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Educate families and service providers about depression among older adults
Filipino Task Force on AIDS
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Offer job skills training and work readiness.
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Employment services, referrals, advocacy, community organizing, legal advice, and leadership development for displaced Filipino airport screeners who lost their jobs because they are not citizens, a requirement that is more stringent than serving in the US military..
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Conduct prevention education through youth conference on HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, teen pregnancy and gang involvement.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Support the Magnegosyo Tayo (Let's Start a Business) economic development project, teaching immigrants about business plans and small business development resources.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Strengthen civic participation work with low-income WWII veterans to secure full access to military medical benefits and stipends.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Community organizing to raise awareness of and protect jobs of Filipino citizen and non-citizen airport screeners.
Indo American Community Service Center
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Develop services for disabled and elderly South Asians in Silicon Valley.
Japanese American Services of the East Bay
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Bring together Japanese and Jewish elderly with school age children who will interview a senior citizen to learn about their experiences and convey what they have learned through a group gathering.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Marketing and outreach to help isolated frail seniors and families caring for elders learn about in-home services and medical care.
Japantown Art & Media Workshop
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Support for Pan-Asian student interns, participation in ethnic festivals, development of group art projects such as murals, silk-screen and photography presentations.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Support cross-cultural youth exhibition project. Youth receive training in graphic design and provide services to community agencies.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Youth internships.
Kearny Street Workshop
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Strategic planning related to office relocation and a fundraising feasibility study.
Korean American Community Services, Inc.
Amount: $19,000
Purpose: Citizenship classes for Korean immigrants in Santa Clara county.
Korean Center, Inc.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Youth community leadership project.
Amount: $7,000
Purpose: General support of Cisco Certified Networking Associate program, offering job training to immigrants. After completion, participants will be qualified to work as staff technicians at Cisco or other companies.
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Maintain citizenship assistance, expand education and outreach efforts, and offer interview preparation and test tutorials for Korean immigrants who have limited English.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Establish an innovative computer training and community support services center for multicultural youth in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Youth Community leaders program
Amount: $19,000
Purpose: Two-part needs assessment survey of the growing Korean American population in Alameda county.
Lao Family Community Development
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: For job counseling, and access to the federal IDA accounts (matching savings accounts for small businesses, college vocation training costs) for low-income tuition or Southeast Asian refugees.
Amount: $23,800
Purpose: Support parent counseling for Laotian youth in public schools.
Amount: $9,800
Purpose: Address challenges of diversifying an agency to meet changing client populations by strengthening communications among a staff that speaks 13 different languages.
Living Well Project (formerly the GAPA HIV Project)
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Produce a magazine for API youth focusing on creative support-building for safe sex and HIV awareness.
Maitri
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Legal services for South Asian women who are subject to family conflict and domestic violence in the South Bay and on the Peninsula.
Amount: $7,500
Purpose: Expanded support group for domestic violence survivors and identify new options for legal services for clients.
Amount: $13,000
Purpose: Support services for South Asian women leaving domestic violence situations and for emergency assistance grants (food, transportation, clothing, motel vouchers).
Narika
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: Help South Asian women who have been the victims of domestic violence achieve economic independence through self-assessment, seminars and personal micro-enterprise plans.
Amount: $12,700
Purpose: Redefine Board structure and integrate fundraising into Board responsibilities.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Foster women's economic self-sufficiency through workshops on employment, financial planning and creating personal and professional support networks.
Nihonmachi Little Friends
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Support for after-school program tutor position to help elementary school children develop reading, writing, and math skills.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Support a tutor in basic reading and writing for Japanese, Korean and Filipino youth.
Nobiru-Kai, Inc.: Japanese Newcomer Service
Amount: $1,500
Purpose: Volunteer/job-training program targeting Japanese immigrants with limited English skills.
Oakland Asian Cultural Center (fiscal agent - Asian Community Mental Health Services)
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Support a program that uses art to facilitate cultural adjustment of Asian refugee students.
Oakland Asian Student Educational Services
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Support educational and cultural field trips as a supplemental component of core tutoring and mentoring program.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: General tutorial program
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: General program support for academic tutorial, mentoring, and enrichment services to over 300 youth in low-income Oakland neighborhoods.
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Hire a dedicated ESL teacher and coordinate University of California Berkeley student volunteers who tutor low income Asian youth and teach them basic computer skills.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Expand a collaboration to bring Asian American and African American students from racially isolated schools together to learn tolerance and respect.
On Lok
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Educate families and service providers about depression among older adults
Pilipino Bayanihan Resource Center
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Support Youth Council activities providing community awareness peer education, and cultural awareness activities to local youth.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Youth Empowerment Program
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Support Youth Leadership Training program that will target at-risk Pilipino Youth in Daly City and involve them in leadership training.
Self-Help for the Elderly
Amount: $17,500
Purpose: Community-based citizenship classes and services for limited-English seniors and non-senior populations in Chinatown and Visitacion Valley.
Southeast Asian Community Center
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Help Southeast Asian immigrants develop plans for small businesses, apply for loans, and obtain licenses, permits and meet other requirements.
Amount: $17,600
Purpose: Help with applications, ESL/civics classes, referral for legal services for Southeast Asians in the Tenderloin district.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Hold two community forums and one conference on leadership development.
Vietnamese Voluntary Foundation
Amount: $11,000
Purpose: Increase and coordinate food distribution services to recently unemployed Vietnamese workers and their families.
West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center
Amount: $18,000
Purpose: Increase food distribution and coordinate information and referral services for recently unemployed Filipino workers and their families.
Wu Yee Children’s Services
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: training for family day care providers
Yu-Ai Kai/Japanese American Community Senior Svcs.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Educate families and service providers about depression among older adults
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