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Roster of Grant Recipients
APA Family Support Services (formerly Asian Perinatal Advocates)
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Home visits and health education for mothers with young children at high risk for obesity.
Amount: $16,500
Purpose: Support services for immigrants applying to be U.S. citizens, especially for those in the Tenderloin and Visitacion Valley communities.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Promote economic self-sufficiency and leadership development for monolingual, low-income Asian immigrant parents.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Organizational fiscal health assessment and financial management plan development.
Asian American Dance Performances
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Dance workshops and student-run demonstrations in Mission District public schools involving mixed groups of Asian and Latino students.
Asian American Theater Co.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Production of "Love Like This Theater" that targets queer Asian and Pacific Islander youth to raise HIV/AIDS awareness.
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Counseling for troubled Asian American youth.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: After-school peer counseling.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Increased parental involvement in children's schooling through leadership training and educational seminars.
Amount: $6,000
Purpose: Direct services for at-risk youth through after-school programs and job training.
Asian Americans Together
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Expansion of core programs and the Asian Americans Together Essay Contest for the larger Eden area, including San Lorenzo, San Leandro and Hayward.
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Amount: $35,000
Purpose: Ensure that Asian issues are considered in distribution of state funding for mental health services in California. Considerations include language barriers, strong cultural stigma, trauma associated with war and refugee camps, alternative healing beliefs and practices, lack of medical insurance, and common treatment models like group therapy that are not ideal for Asians. The consortium of Santa Clara County agencies includes Asian Americans for Community Involvement and Yu Ai Kai.
Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: HIV care and support services in San Francisco, Alameda and San Mateo Counties for Asians and Pacific Islanders living with HIV and their families.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Peer health education collaborative for youth in detention.
Asian Community Mental Health Services
Amount: $35,000
Purpose: Ensure that Asian issues are considered in distribution of state funding for mental health services in California. Considerations include language barriers, strong cultural stigma, trauma associated with war and refugee camps, alternative healing beliefs and practices, lack of medical insurance, and common treatment models like group therapy that are not ideal for Asians. The consortium of Alameda County agencies includes Asian Pacific Psychological Services and the Culture to Culture Foundation.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Comprehensive health care services that are culturally- and linguistically-appropriate for Asian children and families in Alameda County.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Support group and leadership training for Cambodian youth in Oakland. Program will publish creative writing and art work of the participants.
Amount: $19,990
Purpose: Training for Oakland youth in community organization and leadership that promotes cross-cultural understanding.
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Support group for Cambodian and Vietnamese youth that includes a cultural awareness component.
Amount: $18,000
Purpose: Adding an anti-discrimination and anti-hate crimes component to youth leadership program. Working with youth from Afghan coalition.
Asian Health Services
Amount: $19,000
Purpose: Nutrition education, exercise and field trips for Asian children to promote healthy lifestyles.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Leadership development of community health peer leaders through curriculum, recruitment, training, outreach, and participation in a statewide legislative health conference.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Health care services and education for Asian and Pacific Islander youth, espcecially high-risk Southeast Asian youth.
Asian Immigrant Women's Advocates
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: 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: Education of low-income, limited-English speaking immigrant women workers in basic English literacy and workplace rights.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Leadership and civic participation training to low-income Chinese and Vietnamese youth. Development of a training manual and video for other organizations working with immigrant youth.
Asian Law Alliance
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Citizenship services for Asian elderly with limited English ability and who live in Santa Clara County.
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: Citizenship application assistance for Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino and Indo-American seniors in Santa Clara County to offset a 75 percent cut in state funding.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Legal assistance for Vietnamese elderly, in conjunction with the Vietnamese Voluntary Foundation.
Asian Law Caucus
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Citizenship and naturalization services for Asian immigrants.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Legal clinics, impact litigation and 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. Development of workshops specifically to help the Lao and Hmong communities.
Amount: $12,000
Purpose: Increased Board knowledge of raising major gifts from private donors and online charitable giving.
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Environmental advocacy for Southeast Asians in Contra Costa County.
Amount: $6,000
Purpose: Strengthened organizational infrastructure and development of leadership skills.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Ensure safe living and working environments for Laotian population through alliances with Latino and African American communities.
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
Amount: $12,500
Purpose: Public attention for top Asian and Pacific Islander artists through the United States of Asian America Festival.
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Amount: $40,000
Purpose: Promote the well-being of agency staff and keep morale and productivity high through continuing education, staff development and appreciation activities. Funds will reimburse staff members for gym or museum membership, spa and health club services, and classes in dance and the arts, for example.
Asian Pacific Psychological Services
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Ensure that Asian issues are considered in distribution of state funding for mental health services in California. Considerations include language barriers, strong cultural stigma, trauma associated with war and refugee camps, alternative healing beliefs and practices, lack of medical insurance, and common treatment models like group therapy that are not ideal for Asians.
Amount: $15,500
Purpose: Strengthen financial management skills and create internal accounting procedures.
Asian Women’s Resource Center
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Promote interaction among youth from different cultures through service projects.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Peer support and educational workshops for low-income youth who are actively involved in planning and evaluating the program.
Amount: $7,000
Purpose: Increase the capacity of the after-school tutors program to serve a larger number of low-income children.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Tutorial services for Asian youth and the hiring of a teacher for children with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Promote the economic self-sufficiency of low-income Asian women through job training, English language classes and support.
Asian Women’s Shelter
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Therapy and counseling for children.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Explore and test ways for organization 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: $1,000
Purpose: Equipment for a health education program for youth using Wii Fit.
Amount: $18,000
Purpose: Naturalization services and citizenship classes for immigrants and refugees.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Comprehensive family support services for youth.
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: Legal services and to develop community advocacy to protect Cambodian refugees who are legal residents and face deportation because of minor crimes.
Cambodian New Generation
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Interventions, counseling and tutoring for at-risk Southeast Asian youth. Workshops and community resource pamphlets for their parents.
Career Resources Development Center
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Promote team-building skills and cross-cultural communication through a journalism project for Asian and African American children in the Tenderloin.
Charity Cultural Services Center
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Job training and job placement assistance for low-income Asian immigrants in the food and beverage industry.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Job training sanctioned by the Carpenters Union, vocational English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, and help learning the union system for obtaining job assignments.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Training for Asian and Latino youth in leadership, empowerment and cross-cultural awareness.
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: 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 in the Tenderloin residing in the International Hotel.
Chinatown YMCA
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Physical education program for low-income youth that encourages healthy living habits.
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Services for workers to improve English communication skills and vocational training in targeted employment areas.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Training for graduates of the City College vocational ESL program to secure and retain union-scale construction jobs.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Workshops on careers in construction and law enforcement for at-risk Asian youth.
Amount: $13,700
Purpose: Improved social services for the influx of Asian residents in Visitacion Valley.
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: $18,000
Purpose: Naturalization services and citizenship classes for immigrants and refugees.
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: Citizenship application assistance, legal counseling, 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: Production of a youth work project called "Monsoon Jr. Journal," a documentary of Asian youth culture in the Bay Area.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Community outreach and organizing so Chinatown tenants may address substandard housing conditions.
Community Educational Services
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Activities for low-income Asian and African American youth to learn more about one another's cultures.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Establishing stronger links to other youth programs and resources that can represent young people’s concerns at community meetings and events.
Community Youth Center
Amount: $23,000
Purpose: Health fairs and a service learning project for Asian youth to address childhood obesity.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Teach low-income youth in the Richmond District of San Francisco job search skills and prepare them to work in a multicultural environment.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Service learning project on Asian teen smoking prevention.
Daly City Youth Health Center
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Mental health counseling services for low-income, at-risk Filiipino youth and their parents. Placement in summer employment program for low-income Filipino high school students.
Donaldina Cameron House
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Youth retreat and conferences for Asian American and non-Asian youth to explore causes of discrimination and racial and ethnic intolerance.
Family Bridges, Inc. (formerly Oakland Chinatown Community Council)
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: Information and referral services, ESL and citizenship classes for Asian immigrants in Oakland.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Regular electronic newsletter for students of different backgrounds to exchange thoughts in a non-threatening environment.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Trips for Asian and Latino youth that promote educational and cultural awareness.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Career track programs and job training.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: After-school tutoring, counseling, skills training, substance abuse prevention and recreation for elementary school students at the Lincoln Youth Center.
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Translation services for clients and patients in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Lao, Mien, Cambodian and Farsi.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Education for families and service providers about depression among older adults.
Filipino Task Force on AIDS
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Job skills training and work readiness.
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
Amount: $18,500
Purpose: Increased awareness among teens about the prevalence of obesity and diabetes.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Support services for former Oakland Airport screeners to achieve economic self-sufficiency.
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 were not citizens.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Prevention education on HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, teen pregnancy and gang involvement.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Teaching immigrants about business plans and small business development resources.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Strengthen civic participation among low-income veterans of World War II and help them secure full access to military medical benefits and stipends.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Community organizing to protect the jobs of all Filipino airport screeners, regardless of their citizenship status.
Friends of Children with Special Needs
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Teach Asian children with handicapping conditions about health eating, exercise and related subjects.
Indo American Community Service Center
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Services for disabled and elderly South Asians in Silicon Valley.
Japanese American Services of the East Bay
Amount: $7,000
Purpose: Board development and strategic planning.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Promote intergenerational understanding for Japanese and Jewish elderly and school-aged children. Senior citizens will share their experiences with the children, who will present what they have learned to the group.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Marketing and outreach to isolated frail seniors and families caring for elders so they may learn about in-home services and medical care.
Japanese Community Youth Council
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Assess what the community perceives as critical health issues for youth. Educational workshops and presentations to identify strategies for overcoming any cultural and intergenerational conflicts that compromise children's health.
Japantown Art & Media Workshop
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Increased participation in ethnic festivals and the development of group art projects like murals, silk-screen and photography presentations.
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Cross-cultural youth exhibition project where young people receive training in graphic design and provide services to community agencies.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Internship opportunities for youth.
Kearny Street Workshop
Amount: $12,500
Purpose: The development of the next generation of Asian artists and arts administrators through the KSW-Next program.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Strategic planning related to office relocation and a fundraising feasibility study.
Kimochi
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Services for low- and moderate-income seniors to identify and fix hazards in their homes that could cause falls or other accidents.
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: Job training for immigrants as part of a Cisco Certified Networking Associate program. Upon completion, participants will be qualified to work as staff technicians at Cisco and other companies.
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Citizenship and immigration services.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Citizenship assistance, expanded education and outreach efforts, interview preparation and test tutorials for Korean immigrants who have limited English language skills.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Computer training and community support services for multicultural youth in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Youth community leaders program.
Amount: $19,000
Purpose: Needs assessment survey of the growing Korean American population in Alameda County.
Lao Family Community Development
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Support for the Southeast Asian Citizenship Assistance Program.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Job counseling and access to the federal IDA accounts for Southeast Asian refugees to start small businesses or enroll in vocational training courses.
Amount: $23,800
Purpose: Parent counseling for Laotian youth in public schools.
Amount: $9,800
Purpose: Strengthen communications among a multilingual staff to better meet chanllenges of serving a changing client population.
Living Well Project (formerly the GAPA HIV Project)
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Publication of a magazine for Asian and Pacific Islander youth that promotes safer sex and HIV awareness through the createion of social supports.
Maitri
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Legal services for South Asian women who are victims of family conflict and domestic violence in the South Bay and on the Peninsula.
Amount: $7,500
Purpose: Support groups for survivors of domestic violence survivors and identification of 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: Economic independence for South Asian women who have been the victims of domestic violence through self-assessment, seminars and personal micro-enterprise plans.
Amount: $12,700
Purpose: Redefinition of Board structure and integration of fundraising into Board responsibilities.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: Foster women's economic self-sufficiency through workshops on employment, financial planning and the creation of personal and professional support networks.
Nihonmachi Little Friends
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: After-school program for students in kindergarten through fifth grade to learn about healthy eating and fitness through cooking projects and dance.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: After-school tutor to help elementary school children develop reading, writing and math skills.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Tutor in basic reading and writing for Japanese, Korean and Filipino youth.
Nobiru-Kai, Inc.: Japanese Newcomer Service
Amount: $1,500
Purpose: Volunteer and job-training program targeting Japanese immigrants with limited English language skills.
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: Facilitate the cultural adjustment of Asian refugee students through art.
Oakland Asian Student Educational Services
Amount: $3,000
Purpose: Educational and cultural field trips to supplement the tutoring and mentoring program.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Tutoring for low-income Asian youth in Oakland.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Tutoring, mentoring and enrichment services to over 300 youth in low-income Oakland neighborhoods.
Amount: $25,000
Purpose: An ESL teacher to coordinate with volunteers who tutor low-income Asian youth and teach basic computer skills.
Amount: $20,000
Purpose: 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: Community peer education and cultural awareness activities for local youth.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Youth empowerment program.
Amount: $2,500
Purpose: Leadership training for at-risk Pilipino Youth in Daly City.
Sakura Kai
Amount: $7,500
Purpose: Oral history project featuring Japanese American senior citizens.
Amount: $19,000
Purpose: Citizenship classes for Korean immigrants in Santa Clara county.
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: $2,500
Purpose: Health fair in Oakland with education about childhood obesity and diabetes.
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Help Southeast Asian immigrants develop plans for small businesses and apply for related loans, licenses and permits.
Amount: $17,600
Purpose: Application assistance, ESL and civics classes, and referrals for legal services for Southeast Asians in the Tenderloin.
Amount: $10,000
Purpose: Community forums on leadership development.
Vietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Determine what public funding sources might be available to sustain programs for seniors.
Vietnamese Youth Development Center
Amount: $22,250
Purpose: Ensure that Asian issues are considered in distribution of state funding for mental health services in California. Considerations include language barriers, strong cultural stigma, trauma associated with war and refugee camps, alternative healing beliefs and practices, lack of medical insurance, and common treatment models like group therapy that are not ideal for Asians. The consortium of San Francisco County agencies includes Richmond Area Multi-Services Center and Asian American Recovery Services.
Vietnamese Voluntary Foundation
Amount: $14,000
Purpose: Naturalization services and citizenship classes for immigrants and refugees.
Amount: $11,000
Purpose: Coordinated food distribution services to recently unemployed Vietnamese workers and their families.
West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center
Amount: $18,000
Purpose: Increased food distribution and coordinated 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 Services
Amount: $15,000
Purpose: Social services and nutrition programs for seniors.
Amount: $5,000
Purpose: Education for families and service providers about depression among older adults.
Last updated July 28, 2008
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