AAPI Women Lead this movement aims to strengthen the progressive political and social platforms of Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the US through the leadership of self-identified AAPI women and girls.

APIENC builds queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander power to amplify our voices and increase the visibility of our communities in the Bay Area.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice is a national affiliation of five leading organizations advocating for the civil and human rights of Asian Americans and other underserved communities to promote a fair and equitable society for all. This site documents hate and educates about the environment of hate around the country.

Asian Civic Engagement Fund fosters a culture of civic participation within AAPI communities by supporting the growth of AAPI groups as organizational movement and power building leaders that achieve specific policy, systems, and transformational change.

Asian Pacific Envir onmental Network is an environmental justice organization with deep root’s in California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities.

Chinese For Affirmative Action protects 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 Islander community. We advocate for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial and social injustice.

Filipino Community Center provides culturally competent programs and services, help community members access free and low-cost resources, and connect families to grassroots organizations and advocates.

Gabriela Oakland is a grassroots Filipino women’s organizations seeking to wage a struggle for the liberation of all oppressed filipino women and people.

Good Good Eatz Asian X Black Unity, a cultural collaboration between Miss Tarika Lewis, 1st female black panther party member and Tommy Wong of Good Good Eatz and civic design studio using art, food and culture to connect asian, brown and black communities during this pivotal time of social change in our world.

Oakland Chinatown Coalition brings together cultural organizations to advocate for neighborhood improvement projects and community engagement.

Pinayista is a nonprofit community collective of self-identified pinays with a mission to build sisterhood in the hustle. Our community is global and open to all self-identified pinays, trans, and gender nonconforming pinxys.

Stop AAPI Hate The Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of SF State University launched an anti Asian American hate reporting center due to a rise in xenophobia from the COVID 19 pandemic.

Stop DiscriminAsian (SDA) is a coalition of workers within arts and culture who are confronting the racism, xenophobia and violence towards diasporic Asians that have been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnamese American Community Center of the East Bay provides quality services to low-income, refugee and immigrant populations and their families

LEGAL ASSISTANCE

Asian Law Caucus promotes, advance, and represents the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Islander communities.

MENTAL HEALTH

Asian Therapist Directory The Asian Mental Health Collective aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.

Asian Mental Health Collective: Organizations Directory

PETITIONS

Justice for Angelo Quinto

Justice for Jennifer petition

Condemn Hate and Violence Against Asian American Women

Stop the Racial Profiling of Asian Americans and Asian Immigrants and End the Justice Department’s “China Initiative”

Get Mainstream N ews Coverage Of National Elderly Asian American Assaults

Add Asian American history in school textbooks

DONATE

SF AAPI Victims and Survivors Assistance Fund Community Youth Center of San Francisco CYCSF is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Sarah Wan.

Stop Asian Hate: Together, We Can Make a Difference

#ImR eadyMovement raises visibility around self-identified AAPI women and our experiences with #MeToo, racial discrimination, war, immigration, and more. It also celebrates the leadership and power of AAPI women in Education, Business, Technology, and Politics. At the conferences, we bring together AAPI women leaders and our supporters to learn from one another, tell our stories, and to highlight our diverse leadership stories.

We Are Not A Virus to fund support towards providing asian elderly to get to and from their destinations to prevent them from taking public transportation.

#StopTheHate: Support the AAPI Community

John Chen's fundraiser for his grandmother

In memory of HyunJungKim to support my brother & I

In loving memory of Suncha Kim

For husband of Soon C Park, victim of spa shooting

Memorial for Yong Yue and Peterson Family

ATL Spa Shooting Family Survivor Fund: Jami Webb

Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez

Help Elcias Hernandez Ortiz cover medical bills

Cherokee massage parlor survivor

Helping Subhakar Khadka Cyan Banister is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Subhakar Khadka.

Vicha Ratanapakdee Fund

Asian Health Services

Oakland Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce’s Re-Imagine Little Saigon campaign

Save Our Chinatowns

South Asian Americans Leading Together

EPIC group of young Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) leaders who recognized the urgency to address the growing needs of NHPI families.

LISTEN

Code Switch episode on the Model Minority Myth

The Cost of Anti-Asian Raciscm on Fifth & Mission podcast

WATCH

Call Her Ganda film about Jennifer Laude

How Coronavirus Is Stoking Racism Against Asian People

Racism as a Public Health Issue: Addressing Prejudices Against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 hosted by LACMA

Anti-Asian Racism Past & Present / Our Hopes for the Future hosted by Japanese American National Museum

PBS Newshour: Asian Americans report rise in racist attacks amid pandemic

SUPPORT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT

Black Lives Matte r (BLM) is an international human rights movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.

Black Visions Collective is a non-profit organization for black liberation based in Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 2017. The group intersect with the transgender and LGBT community. Active in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the group have been involved in Black Lives Matter protests.

Brandon Saenz Medical Fund Brandon Saenz was protesting against police violence last weekend when he became a victim of it. Police hit him in the eye with what authorities in Dallas said was a non-lethal sponge round which resulted in him losing his left eye. This is a go fund me created by his mother to help him with medical / life expenses.

Color of Change is the nation's largest online racial justice organization. ... As a national online force driven by 1.7 million members, we move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.

Defund the Police Minneapolis Sign petition to demand Minneapolis City Council pledge to be visionary leaders for Minneapolis and divest from the Minneapolis Police Department

Justice for Jamarion Robinson

Letters for Black Lives is a set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities.

Movement For Black Lives The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is a coalition of groups across the United States which represent the interests of black communities.

Petitions to Sign

Reclaim the Block is fighting for a Minneapolis where affordable housing, youth programming, opioid response, and mental health care are well-funded and accessible to all of our neighbors. Want to get involved? Sign + share their petition:

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is a non-profit organization for black liberation based in Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 2017. The group intersect with the transgender and LGBT community. Active in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the group have been involved in Black Lives Matter protests.

Filipinx for BLM Fighting Anti-Blackness in the Filipinx Community

20 + Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now A list of allyship actions and resources from the Awaken platform for the Asian + Asian / American Community

White Allyship 101 A list of resources and tools from the Dismantle Collective to educate and practice allyship from the white community

‘Why Microaggressions Aren’t So Micro’ - Whitney Grinnage-Cassidy Tedtalk given by Whitney Grinnage-Cassidy, a member of Delaware Youth Leadership Network and Youth Advocacy Council. She participates in the TeenSHARP College Access Ambassadors Training program, which prepares students of color for success in top colleges and in future careers.

SUPPORT BLACK TRANS LIVES

BlackTransFut ures is a mutual aid fund that helps Black trans and gender nonconforming people get their material needs met.

G.L.I.T.S. We approach the health and rights crises faced by transgender sex workers holistically using harm reduction, human rights principles, economic and social justice, along with a commitment to empowerment and pride in finding solutions from our own community.

The East Bay LGBTQ + Healing Arts Center Led by Black Queer + Black Trans artists and healers, offers Oakland's LGBTQ+ artists of all ethnicities + all areas of creative genius (dance, visual art, music, film, sculptural art, theater, spoken word, literature, zines, etc.) a safe place to heal, build + support their art throughout the year.

Kween Culture Initiative SF based organization. Kween Culture Initiative’s mission is to promote the social and cultural empowerment of transgender women of color.

The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, founded by trans rights activist and attorney Dean Spade and provides "provides direct representation for low-income transgender people and transgender people of color."

The Trans Obituaries Project Honoring the Trans Women of Color Lost in 2019

The Okra Project The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them.

They have also launched mental health funds in honor of both Tony McDade and Nina Pop, which will purchase therapy sessions with licensed Black practitioners for trans people ( click below )

The Tony Mcdade Mental Health Recovery Fund will benefit trans men

The Nina Pop Mental Health Recovery Fund benefits trans women

Trans Lifeline is a peer support and crisis hotline for trans people, that provides small grants for name change fees and incarcerated trans people

SUPPORT FOR PROTESTORS IN CALIFORNIA

PREPARE

Know Your Protest Rights Provided by ACLU

Prepare For Protest Guidelines for preparing yourself for a protest and what to do if you end up in cuffs

How To Gear Up for a Protest Visual guideline on how to best protect yourself if threatened with arrest or violence while demonstrating.

TREATMENT

Treatment for Tear Gas

Bullet Wounds, Pepper Spray, Tear Gas Treatment

Step by Step Guide to CPR What to before and how to administer CPR, click below for video tutorial

CPR quick video guide to hands only CPR to stay safe amidst Covid-19

ARREST NGL HOTLINE NUMBERS (Write these numbers on your arms in permanent ink before attending)

SF & OAKLAND (415) 285-1011

LOS ANGELES 310-313-3700

LEGAL DEFENSE / SUPPORT

Criminal Defense Attorney, Dave Hollenberg Offering free representation in the Bay Area, can also be contacted here if you don’t have twitter

Pro Bono Bay Area list of Bay Area resources for pro bono legal assitance

The Colin Kaepernick Know Your Rights Legal Defense Fund Form submission for legal assistance if you, or a loved one is has been arrested or has been a victim of police brutality while fighting injustice across the nation.

The San Francisco Bay Area NLG provides legal support for those protesting and organizing against injustice

DONATE TO BAIL FUNDS

SF & OAKLAND

Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee Bail Fund is supporting protesters and working with the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Chapter to run an arrest hotline. Donate

The People's Program is helping to bail out protesters in Oakland. Donate

Sacramento based. NorCal Resist Activist Bail & ICE Bond Fund Donate

The Silicon Valley DSA is helping to bail out protesters Donate

Los Angeles based. Peoples City Council Freedom Fund is providing legal support, medical bills, transportation, supplies and and protective gear to protesters. Donate

Los Angeles Black Lives Matter chapter is supporting organizers and fighting to adopt a "People's Budget" that reallocates police funding to vulnerable communities. Donate

San Diego based. The DeDe McClure Memorial Community Fund is donating funds to free arrested protesters. Donate

SUPPORT BLACK ORGANIZATIONS AND BUSINESSES IN OAKLAND / BAY AREA

Anti Police Terror Project The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.

Better Black Organization taking responsibility to help reform Black business in the community.

Black Organizing Project The Black Organizing Project is a Black member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community-building in Oakland, California.

Bay Area Black Owned Business Relief Fund Application This fund has been raised to help Bay Area Black Owned Businesses that were affected by looting and rioting from the recent events. Funds will be distributed on a first come first served bases as soon as GoFundMe releases the funds to us.

Black Earth Farms Grassroots Black & Indigenous Agroecological Farming Collective

Brown Recluse is a collectively-run zine distro for QTBIPOC by QTBIPOC

East Oakland Collective A membership cohort of millennials+ invested in making impact in Deep East Oakland.

East Oakland Grocery Cooperative The East Oakland Grocery Cooperative (EOGC) is a community-developed grocery cooperative initiative that will equitably provide fresh, local and healthy foods and job opportunities to the Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) residents of East Oakland.

Kween Culture Initiative SF Based organization. Kween Culture Initiative’s mission is to promote the social and cultural empowerment of transgender women of color.

LGBTQ Psychotherapists of Color (QTOC) QTOC is a San Francisco/Bay Area grassroots, volunteer-led group providing support, networking, leadership development, and community building opportunities for LGBTQs of Color in Psychology, Social Work, and Counseling

Love Life Foundation Provide a supportive and empowering environment for at-risk youth, and mobilize community support to change economic & social conditions that lead to violence.

National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC).

Oakland Natives Give Back Organization that addresses the most pressing social ills of the day by funding and creating innovative programs, experiences and partnerships that empower the next generation of high-achieving citizens, locally and globally.

Oakland Rising educates and mobilizes voters in the flatlands to speak up for and take charge of the issues impacting our lives. We are a multilingual, multiracial collaborative with deep roots in East and West Oakland's neighborhoods, proving that everyday residents working together have the power to change the way our city is run.

Peoples Breakfast Oakland Black Grassroot organization serving the people of Oakland.

Planting Justice Since 2009 Planting Justice has built over 450 edible permaculture gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked with five high-schools to develop food justice curricula and created 40 green jobs in the food justice movement for folks transitioning from prison.

Prisoners With Children LSPC organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights, and to reunify families and communities. We build public awareness of structural racism in policing, the courts, and the prison system, and we advance racial and gender justice in all our work.

Roots Community Health Center Founded in Oakland, California, the mission of Roots Community Health Center is to uplift those impacted by systemic inequities and poverty. We accomplish this through medical and behavioral health care, health navigation, workforce enterprises, housing, outreach, and advocacy.

T ransgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people—inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom.

SUPPORT BLACK / BIPOC LOCAL CULTURE

Africa n American Museum & Library at Oakland The African American Museum and Library at Oakland is dedicated to the discovery, preservation, interpretation and sharing of historical and cultural experiences of African Americans in California and the West for present and future generations.

Afro ComicCon AfroComicCon™ entertains, educates, and unites a diverse, global audience around comics, art media, technology, and culture. We establish a platform to showcase and empower artists who have historically been denied access to equal opportunity.

Anasa Oakland Anasa Yoga is a beautiful, fragrance-free, green-certified yoga studio & community center co-founded by two African American, creative & business-minded yoga teachers from Oakland. We honor the ancient tradition of yoga as a source for endless life benefits that enrich the mind, the body, and the spirit.

Ashara Ekundayo Gallery A space which exclusively shows and shares art by black women, showcasing 20th and 21st-century art and new media works

Ashay By The Bay An Independent Minority Owned Business and Deborah Day is the Founder and CEO. She opened the business in 2000 and started selling books online in 2002, establishing Ashay by the Bay as a Book Reseller that Specializes in African American and Multi-Cultural Children’s Books, Baby-3 and K-12 for Schools and Organization

Bandung Books at EastSide Cultural Center New and used books, records, posters on Black, Asian, Raza/Indigenous history, stories, poetry, and art.

Bayview Operahouse A cultural institution that provides opportunities to engage in the arts for a community with a long history of disinvestment, creates a sense of belonging and community ownership of the only significant cultural resource in the neighborhood, maintains inclusiveness of the traditional population in the light of gentrification, and provides educational and employment opportunities.

Betti Ono - 100% Black women led and operated, Betti Ono showcases arts, media, exhibitions, and performance experiences, with a slant toward experimentation and independent thinking dedicated to amplifying the work and voices of under-represented artists.

Black Cultural Zone The East Oakland Black Cultural Zone Collaborative seeks to keep Black People, Families and Business in East Oakland -- despite the forces of gentrification.

Coltrane Church Founded by Archbishop Franzo King and Rev. Mother Marina King, the Church of Saint John Coltrane encourages its followers to tap into their spirituality through Coltrane's music. In fact, it is the only church born out of the music of John Coltrane. In addition to its weekly Sunday services and monthly meditations, the Coltrane Church runs a food pantry for the hungry, provides clothing to the homeless, and hosts a radio show on San Francisco's KPOO-FM that plays Coltrane's music.

DNA Dance Tribe Dance Performance group that gives Afro House dance workshops among others styles of dance

EastSide Cultural Center “An organization of Third World artists, cultural workers, and community organizers of color committed to working in the San Antonio and other Oakland neighborhoods to support a creative environment that improves the quality of life for our communities and advocates for progressive, systemic social change”

Esscents of Flowers Oakland Native floral design services

Empowered Conversations Podcast by Bay Area educators, Christina M. Macalino and Elin P. Cervantes addressing BIPOC issues in public schools and equity.

FEELS A showcase for radical imagination showcasing artwork from boundary-pushing creatives working in a wide variety of mediums, here at home in the Bay Area and beyond.

Hip Hop for Change Creates a space that emphasizes and encourages the root values of Hip Hop culture: peace, love, unity, and having fun.

Hella Tea Hella Tea is the brainchild of Oakland Native, Chantrelle Edwards. Her love of tea, coupled with her passion for Oakland and a deep appreciation of Hip-Hop culture, inspired her to bring this vision to life. Hella Tea endeavors to offer a great tea experience with a unique Bay Area twist.

Joyce Gordon Gallery Exhibits art that reflects the social and cultural diversity of the Bay Area and international artists. The aim of the gallery is to respect the creative pursuits of the individual and seeks to make such work accessible to a broad audience.

Marcus Books Oldest independent Black bookstore in the country, located in Oakland, CA

Museum of the Afrian Diaspora MoAD, a contemporary art museum, celebrates Black cultures, ignites challenging conversations, and inspires learning through the global lens of the African Diaspora.

Nook Gallery Founded by Shushan Tesfizigta and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, with the hopes of carving out an inclusive and accessible space to support and give room for emerging artists of color, women and queer artists, to exhibit and present work

Reid's Records No longer in business but one of the oldest black-owned record shops in California, formerly located in Berkeley

Ratskin Records Oakland based label showcasing noise , industrial, electro-Acoustic, synth music, soundtrack, harsh noise, a tonal, art projects from local artists

Spirithaus Gallery Spirithaus Gallery is an alternative space for artistic expression and artist representation where elements of design, fine art, music, film, and culture are unified. An intimate venue that offers a space for artists to exhibit works, screenings, musical performances and socials, the gallery specializes in contemporary cultural arts and neo-iconic remembrances of ancient traditions. Based in Oakland

Thelma Harris Art Gallery Specializing in works by contemporary African American artists, the gallery serves as a venue for emerging, mid-career and established painters, sculptors and mixed media artists.

Uhuru Furniture and Collectibles Founded by the national nonprofit African People's Education and Defense Fund, Uhuru Furniture and Collectibles has been operating in Oakland for more than 27 years. The eclectic secondhand shop helps fund APEDF's various programs that seek to address the educational, economic, and health disparities affecting the Black community in Oakland and other underserved urban areas.

We Are The Ones A collective of community-based artists creating at the margins for cultural r/evolution. Through our underground events, bi-monthly radio broadcast, and creative support services, we work to empower the Creative Resistance using art, music, and come-unity engagement as transformative tools for social change.

SUPPORT BLACK OWNED LOCAL EATING

RESTAURANTS - list compiled by Soleil (@soleil_ho), Tracey Friley (@bestfoodinoakland), Sophi H., Rose E. and others