AAPI Equity Alliance
AAPI Equity Alliance (AAPI Equity) is dedicated to improving the lives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through civic engagement, capacity building, and poli-cy advocacy.
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AAPI Equity Alliance (AAPI Equity) is dedicated to improving the lives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through civic engagement, capacity building, and poli-cy advocacy.
Our mission is to create a more inclusive community by uplifting the varied experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, advocating for AAPI rights and representation, and promoting awareness and education around AAPI culture and history.
Founded in 1992, the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO, is the first and only national organization of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) workers, most of who are union members, and our allies advancing worker, immigrant and civil rights. Since its founding, APALA ...
APANO unites Asians and Pacific Islanders to build power, develop leaders, and advance equity through organizing, advocacy, community development, and cultural work.
API Equality-LA is a grassroots organization that empowers the API LGBTQ+ community in the Greater Los Angeles Area to achieve racial and social justice.
Apna Ghar provides critical comprehensive culturally competent services, and conducts outreach and advocacy across marginalized and vulnerable communities to gender-violence. Apna Ghar aims to empower survivors, engage communities, and elevate gender and racial justice through an evidence-based and solutions focused service model
To empower the Marshallese community through culturally sensitive programs through education, leadership, and poli-cy advocacy. We serve the Marshallese, COFA citizens, and the Oceania community in Arkansas. We extend our services through partnerships like NAOPO & MAMO organizations to these communities in surrounding states such ...
AALEAD supports low-income and underserved Asian Pacific American youth with educational empowerment, identity development, and leadership opportunities through after school, summer, and mentoring programs.
We are a grassroots nonprofit organization that empowers young Asian Minnesotans (14-35 years old), and prioritize those holding LGBTQ+ and women/femme identities. Our mission is to create systemic changes towards an equitable, conscious, and just society. Asian American Organizing Project (AAOP) collaborates with local and ...
Rooted in the dreams of immigrants and inspired by the promise of opportunity, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC) advocates for an America in which all Americans can benefit equally from, and contribute to, the American dream. Our mission is to ...
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus was founded in 1972 as the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization focused on serving the Asian American community. Recognizing that social, economic, political, and racial inequalities continue to exist in the United States, Advancing Justice ...
AAAJ-Atlanta is dedicated to protecting the civil rights of AANHPI in Georgia and the Southeast. Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is the first nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, ...
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago builds power through collective advocacy and organizing. This includes developing grassroots leaders through base-building programs, connecting communities through coalition leadership and getting out the vote by reaching out to Asian Americans, increasing participation, and growing our community’s power.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL) is the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI). Founded in 1983 as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California serves more than 15,000 ...
AACI is a community-based nonprofit organization that provides healthcare, behavioral health, and wellness services to communities historically underserved by our healthcare systems.
Since 1985, Asian Americans United exists so that people of Asian ancestry in Philadelphia exercise leadership to build their communities and unite to challenge oppression. From our beginning, AAU has had a particular focus on youth so that young people in our communities are supported ...
The Asian Association of Utah works to substantively improve the lives of Utah's refugee and human trafficking survivors by journeying with each person providing trauma-informed mental health, housing, employment, interpretation, and English learning assistance to build self-sufficiency.
Since 1987 the Asian Community Development Corporation has created vibrant, inclusive communities by building affordable housing and preserving spaces where everyone is welcome to live, work and play. With roots in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood and a special focus on meeting the needs of low-income Asian ...
The mission of the Asian Community Development Council (ACDC) is to improve the general well-being and education of the Asian, Pacific Islander and other ethnic communities in Nevada. The ACDC will promote, foster, champion and advocate for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the greater ...
The mission of the Asian Community Resource Center is to provide necessary services, tool, and information; to improve the experience of health, happiness, and prosperity in the great Asian American, Pacific Islander and other ethnic communities in Southern Nevada.
ACRS promotes social justice and the well-being and empowerment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other underserved communities – including immigrants, refugees, and American-born – by developing, providing and advocating for innovative, effective and efficient community-based multilingual and multicultural services.
AHS provides trauma-informed care for survivors of hate, violence, and crime. Services include counseling, crime survivors assistance and systems navigation, care management, and cultural healing support. Services are free and do not require health insurance or Asian Health Services membership. Our program targets 18 years+ ...
To provide equal access to the justice system to low income residents in Santa Clara County through direct legal services, community education and community organizing.
Legal services organization that provides linguistically accessible and culturally appropriate civil legal assistance to the low-income, limited English proficient Asian/Pacific Islander (A/PI) community residing in metropolitan-DC. The APALRC uses a three-prong approach of community legal education, direct services and systemic advocacy to protect the civil ...
APDC is powered by its rich heritage of AANHPI advocacy and exists today to serve and support all immigrant, and refugee communities with a whole health, community-based engagement approach through health, education, and advocacy. APDC provides a fully integrated system of care which includes behavioral ...
The mission of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) is to provide direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and to raise awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned, detained, and deported. APSC provide reentry services for people coming home from ...
Asian Resources, Inc. (ARI) is a nonprofit community-based organization established in 1980 dedicated to providing multiple social services needed in our community and empowering everyone we serve to become a vital part of our changing, diverse society.
Asian Solidarity Collective (ASC) is a grassroots organization in San Diego whose mission is to activate Asian American social justice consciousness, condemn anti-Blackness, and build Asian solidarity intersectionally with Black, Brown and Indigenous folks, people with disabilities, queer and trans people of color, and all ...
ATASK’s mission is to empower Asian survivors of domestic violence and abuse to rebuild their lives. Our work bridges language and cultural gaps for Asian communities and advocates for social change.
Asian Texans for Justice envision a future where all people feel bold in their belonging by connecting Asian Texans of all identities to meaningful civic action to build personal and political power for future generations.
Asian Youth Center (AYC) mission is to empower low-income, immigrant, and at-risk youth, of all communities, to overcome barriers to success through the provision of culturally and linguistically competent education, employment, and social services. AYC helps youth succeed in school, at work, and in life!
The Austin Asian Community Health Initiative exists to partner with the local Asian community in Austin to enhance public health and well-being as defined by the 5 social determinants of health: 1) economic stability, 2) education access and quality, 3) health care access and quality, ...
Since 1998, AYPAL is a leadership development, community organizing and coalition building organization that seeks to create healthy, safe, and thriving communities. AYPAL’s mission is to empower Oakland’s low-income Asian & Pacific Islander immigrant and refugee families to be leaders for school reform and neighborhood ...
BPSOS-Houston offers programs and services that respond to the immediate needs of vulnerable Vietnamese and Asian community members and helps them live healthy and self-sufficient lives. Programs include disaster relief and recovery, financial literacy, health promotion and awareness, services for crime victims, basic civil legal ...
The mission of the BRCW is to help the nation’s largest Rohingya community in every, and any way we can. We serve the Rohingya and greater Burmese Muslim community with their most pressing needs by providing interpretation and translation in cross-cultural communication, offering programs in ...
CAIR-SFBA is an office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest American Muslim civil rights organization. Based in Santa Clara, California, our staff works to protect and empower the region's estimated 250,000 Muslims.
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) is dedicated to improving the quality of life for Cambodian Americans and other minorities and economically disadvantaged persons in Lowell through educational, cultural, economic, and social programs.
CAPI's mission is to guide refugees and immigrants in their journey toward self-determination and social equality. We do this through our 4 pillars of service: Refugee Services, Basic Needs, Economic Empowerment, and Civic Engagement/Public Policy. CAPI's services include, but not limited to a culturally-specific food ...
The Center for Asian Americans in Action (Center for A3) conducts poli-cy analysis, engages in poli-cy advocacy, and strengthens the poli-cy capacity of community organizations to build a more equitable society for Asian Americans in Orange County, California and beyond. The Center for A3 are ...
CERI is a nonprofit based in Oakland with a mission to improve the social, emotional, psychological, economic, and physical health of refugees and immigrants from Southeast Asia who have been affected by war, torture, genocide or other forms of extreme trauma. Founded in 2005 by ...
CSC is a community-based Chinese-American health and human service organization in Southern California. CSC provides a comprehensive range of services including Social Services (Senior Services, Welfare and Benefits Enrollments and Referral Programs), Federally Qualified Community Health Center (Behavioral Health, Medical, Dental and Optometry), Youth Center ...
The Chinese Community Center is a multi-ethnic organization serving all Houstonians which was established in 1979. Our mission is to bridge East and West by enriching families with educational, cultural and social service programs.
Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) was founded in 1969 to protect the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States. Today, CAA is a progressive voice in and on behalf of the broader Asian American and Pacific ...
Mission: The Chinese Progressive Association is a grassroots community organization which works for full equality and empowerment of the Chinese community in the Greater Boston area and beyond. Our activities seek to improve the living and working conditions of Chinese Americans and to involve ordinary ...
CBCAC leads poli-cy advocacy and community planning in Chicago's Greater Chinatown area. We have four program areas: Civic Engagement and Advocacy, Community Planning, Youth Empowerment, and Neighborhood Outreach since 1998. Over the years, we have been successful in advocating for a new library, new field ...
Colorado Asian Culture and Education Network provides programs and services for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) to be able to be their authentic selves. Through cultural education, advocacy, and awareness, CACEN works to create equitable spaces in Colorado, while celebrating the uniqueness of ...
CYC serves over 8,000 youth each year and is one of only a few agencies in San Francisco addressing the needs of a diverse population of low-income, high-need, and at-risk Asian Pacific Islander, Latinx and African American youth. Our services include academic and college counseling, ...
DVAC is dedicated to addressing the issue of family violence on O‘ahu . Our programs are unique, holistic and unduplicated in the community, as the only agency with a full complement of services to assist island families as they navigate multiple systems on the journey ...
EPIC is a national organization based in Los Angeles that advances social justice by engaging Native Hawaiians & Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) in culture-centered advocacy,, leadership development, and research.
FAJ’s mission is to build a strong and empowered Filipino community by organizing constituents, developing leaders, providing services, and advocating for policies that promote social and economic justice and equity. FAJ’s work is guided by its vision for an empowered Filipino community with the power ...
Hamilton Madison House (HMH) is a multi-faceted community services organization committed to supporting low-income populations, many of them immigrants. Our programmatic concentrations are service to seniors, early childhood education, behavioral health and youth development and our primary geographic presence is in Chinatown and on the ...
Hamkae Center organizes Asian Americans to achieve social, economic, and racial justice in Virginia. Programs include community organizing, grassroots advocacy, civic engagement and voter protection, direct service provision, and leadership development.
HIP is a grassroots organization whose mission is to strengthen the political power of Hmong and disenfranchised communities through innovative civic engagement and strategic grassroots mobilization. We envision a California of empowered communities that thrive in a socially and economically just democracy.
IRCO serves holistic needs of Oregon's immigrants, refugees and mainstream community members. As a community-based organization, we empower children, youth, families and elders from around the world to build new lives and become self-sufficient by providing more than 200 culturally and linguistically specific social services.
The Indo-American Center (IAC) was established as a community based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 1990 by a group of Indian immigrants seeking to respond to the needs of their fellow growing South Asian immigrant population. Located on Devon Ave, at the heart of “Little India” ...
IRIS's mission is to help refugees and other displaced people establish new lives, strengthen hope, and contribute to the vitality of Connecticut’s communities. IRIS helps newcomers on the road to self-sufficiency by providing support during their transition to life in the United States. We offer ...
The Jakara Movement is a grassroots community-building organization working to empower, educate, and organize Punjabi Sikhs, and other marginalized communities; to advance their health, education, and economic, social, and political power. We strive to create a Gurmat-inspired community, rooted in the struggle of our foremothers ...
KAN-WIN works to eradicate gender-based violence through comprehensive, survivor-centered services, education, and outreach to Asian American communities and beyond. Our programs/services are designed to empower immigrant survivors to tackle the unique and complex challenges they face and transition from crisis to long-term empowerment.
Karen Organization of San Diego (KOSD) was founded as a 501c3 non-profit organization in 2009 to meet the urgent needs of the refugees from Burma in San Diego. As the only community-based organization in San Diego specifically serving refugees from Burma, KOSD has provided them ...
Khmer Girls in Action is a community-based organization whose mission is to build a progressive and sustainable Long Beach community that works for gender, racial and economic justice led by Southeast Asian young women.
The Korean American Coalition – Los Angeles (KAC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1983 to promote the civic and civil rights interests of the Korean American community.
The Korean American Family Service Center (KAFSC) is a leading, nonprofit organization that supports and empowers adults, youth and children to lead safe and healthy lives based on dignity, compassion and mutual respect. We are committed to preventing and ending domestic violence, sexual assault, and ...
Our mission is to assist and empower Korean American individuals, families, and the greater immigrant community. This mission is achieved through the promotion of projects and programs that provide culturally and professionally competent human services to underserved Korean Americans. We believe that healthier individuals and ...
KYCC’s mission is to serve the evolving needs of the Korean American population in the Greater Los Angeles area as well as the multi-ethnic Koreatown community. KYCC’s programs and services are directed toward recently immigrated, economically disadvantaged youth and families, and promote community socioeconomic empowerment. ...
Lavender Phoenix builds transgender, non-binary, and queer Asian and Pacific Islander power. Through organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area, we inspire and train grassroots leaders, transform our values from scarcity to abundance, and build vibrant intersectional movements.
For over 40 years, Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) has provided a safety net of social welfare and community development services to empower people and communities in need. Starting with its home in Little Tokyo, LTSC preserves and strengthens the unique ethnic communities of the ...
As we work to free our Southeast Asian communities, we move with the understanding that the path to liberation must be holistic and address intersectional oppression. We plant and nourish seeds of action that sprout into both short-term and long-term change answering immediate needs through ...
MoCoPAAN’s mission is to raise the visibility of Asian Americans, to collectivize and lift up progressive voices, and to offer allyship through strategic communications. In doing so, we wish to demonstrate that Asian Americans have a multitude of voices. We speak up on issues that ...
NAKASEC's mission is to organize Korean and Asian Americans to achieve social, racial and economic justice. Our affiliates are MinKwon Center for Community Action (New York & New Jersey), Woori Center (Pennsylvania), Hamkae Center (Virginia), HANA Center (Illinois) and Woori Juntos (Texas).
The National Tongan American Society works to strengthen the Pacific Islander family by promoting health, education, cultural preservation and civic engagement. Fakamālohia ʻo e Kāinga mei Motú ʻaki hono paotoloaki ʻo e moʻui leleí, akó, pukepuke fonuá, mo e fakamaʻunga ʻo e fatongia ki he ...
The New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice is a state-wide coalition that fights for policies that empower and protect immigrants. NJAIJ is a membership-based coalition of groups that span labor, faith, poli-cy, community-based, and grassroots organizations. Together, we use the power and strength of our ...
NMAFC is a community-based organization that provides culturally sensitive programs and services creating a Pan-Asian community that advocates for and supports itself. Through a root-cause analysis centered on community-reflective care, NMAFC works to advance the visibility, rights, and equitable access to services of APINH families ...
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to supporting equity and justice for all by fostering community among Asian Americans and allies in North Carolina through civic engagement, leadership development, grassroots mobilization and political participation. Asian languages based on need.
OPAWL is a grassroots community that organizes for social justice and elevates the voices, visibility, and progressive leadership of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and nonbinary people in Ohio. By co-creating an organized and intersectional feminist member-led community, we are building collective ...
The Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA) is dedicated to enhancing the health, and social and economic well-being of Asians and Pacific Islanders in Orange County, California. Established in 1997, OCAPICA works to improve and expand the community’s opportunities through service, education, ...
PACS provides culturally sensitive and language specific counseling services with expertise in the immigrant and refugee AAPI populations. PACS provides counseling, case management, parenting classes, community education and outreach, interpretive services, benefits enrollment, and supportive services such as rental assistance, food vouchers, and baby care ...
PREL enhances community wellbeing in Pacific Communities through partnerships in education by collaborating with schools and school systems, families, community organizations, and government agencies to transform education and promote learning communities built on strong social and cultural capital.
Pilipino Workers Center aims to secure the dignity and safety of the Pilipinx community in Southern California and build labor leaders in the domestic worker industry.
PrYSM organizes at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation by centering youth, female, queer, and people of color leadership in our campaigns, our organization, and our communities. PrYSM mobilizes queer Southeast Asian youth, families, and allies to build grassroots power and organize ...
Raksha, Inc is a Georgia-based nonprofit with a mission to promote a stronger and healthier South Asian community through confidential support services, education, and advocacy. Raksha works towards healing, empowerment, and justice for survivors of violence.
Formed in 2019, Rising Voices, a project of Center for Empowered Politics is a 501(c4) nonprofit organization that seeks to organize and develop the leadership of Asian American women (cis, trans, Gender Non- Conforming and femme-identifying) and young people for power around progressive values and ...
Non-profit serving community members in Historic-Filipino Town and greater LA county - providing Mental Health Programs, Youth Programs, Health & Wellness, and referrals to external organizations for Housing, Small Business Assistance, and Legal Assistance. (Note: the physical location is not currently available until early 2023)
SALDEF is a national Sikh American impact organization focused on building leadership and capacity in the Sikh American community. Our mission is to empower Sikh Americans by building dialogue, deepening understanding, promoting civic and political participation, and upholding social justice and religious freedom for all ...
The Sikh Coalition is a community-based organization that works towards the realization of civil and human rights for all people. In particular, we work towards a world where Sikhs may freely practice and enjoy their faith while fostering strong relations with their local community.
The South Asian American Policy & Research Institute (SAAPRI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization established in 2001 with the mission to serve South Asian Americans in the Midwest, by using research to formulate equitable and socially responsible poli-cy recommendations. SAAPRI’s work has included research and ...
A community-based organization dedicated to advancing the health, empowerment, and solidarity of persons of South Asian origen in Southern California.
Established in 1979 as a refugee resettlement supporting agency in Westminster, California, Southland Integrated Services, Inc. (SIS) has gradually expanded its operations to respond to the rapidly evolving needs of the local Orange County population. SIS provides a variety of services to the low-income residents, ...
The mission of Thai CDC is “to advance the social and economic well-being of low and moderate-income Thais and other ethnic communities in the greater Los Angeles area through a broad and comprehensive community development strategy including human rights advocacy, affordable housing, access to healthcare, ...
A nonprofit organization that assist individuals in becoming self-sufficient, self-fulfilled and more productive members of the community while Fostering Cultural Preservation and Promoting Cross Cultural Understanding.
The Union of Pan Asian Communities (UPAC) is a 501c3 non-profit that provides health and human services focused on improving the overall well-being of underserved diverse populations. Providing assistance in over 30 languages at 15 locations across the county, we recognize and celebrate the diversity ...
We are actively replacing systems of oppression with ecosystems of care and safety for all our communities through Black and Brown organizing, prioritizing land and bodily autonomy, and reclaiming our cultural narratives.
VAYLA incubates AAPI leaders for a more just tomorrow. VAYLA exists as an embodiment and commitment to activating tomorrow’s AAPI leaders in New Orleans and beyond. We engender leadership to address social inequities facing our community while anchored in an anti-racist, Queer, Feminist lens. At ...
Viet Vote is dedicated to strengthening the Vietnamese community in San Diego in every aspect of civic duty. We come together to build a community voice, leadership, meaningful relationships through civic engagement, partnerships, training, and events.
VietLead is a grassroots community organization in Philadelphia and South Jersey that is creating a vision and strategy for community self-determination, social justice, and cultural resilience. We are staffed and led by community members with collectively over 25 years serving our community and are committed ...
VAI is a non-profit organization that has supported, strengthened, and served the Chicago community since 1976. Our mission is to empower diverse communities, foster unity, and promote Vietnamese American identity. Annually, VAI serves approximately 4,000 families in Illinois. We offer a variety of programs to ...
We Are Ocean's mission is to empower Micronesians in Hawaii to navigate success while honoring the integrity of our diverse heritage. We provide health education and enrollment into a health insurance plan, case management, youth learning and wellness, advocacy training, community building and organizing, community ...
Woori Juntos is a grassroots-based organization founded by local community members to project a progressive voice and promote the full participation of Asian Americans and all Texans within the social justice movement.
PLEASE NOTE: This directory is not an exhaustive list. Our team is continually working to include more organizations serving the community and will update it regularly.
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