The purpose of the Give In May campaign is to raise awareness about issues Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (AAPI) face that are often unseen. It is held in May to honor Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The campaign is hosted by Asian Pacific Fund, a community foundation committed to improving the lives of AAPIs...
There’s been a surge in harassment toward Asian Americans in recent weeks: According to Stop AAPI Hate, an organization that’s been tracking self-reported incidents, more than 1,100 physical and verbal attacks against Asian Americans have been documented since late March... Additionally, because of the diversity within the Asian American community — which includes more than...
For Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders like Shiney-Ajay, environmental protection is a pressing issue. They are more likely as a group to prioritize it over economic growth, compared to other racial and ethnic groups, according to AAPI Data. And for some, their ties to countries in the Asia Pacific region contribute to their dedication to...
Tamara Marquez didn’t know much about the U.S. census before last year, when she applied for a job as a canvasser with the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, a nonprofit organization based in Jurupa Valley. Marquez, a senior at the University of California, Riverside, is forthcoming about why she wanted the job. Originally...
As millions of Americans started receiving their stimulus payments from the federal government this week, one group was largely left out of the relief plan: undocumented immigrants. In light of this, California has announced a $125 million Disaster Relief Fund for the state’s undocumented workers, becoming the first in the nation to provide this type...
The University of California, Riverside’s Center for Social Innovation has released n ew resources to help track and fight COVID-19, as well as a new report on the state of nonprofits in the Inland Empire. Read More Here
Did one of your family members need medical attention this week? Did a friend speak to a crisis counselor, or a did a neighbor need help accessing a food pantry? If so, thank a nonprofit worker. The nonprofit sector does not typically get much attention or respect when it comes to economic strategy and development...
A dozen Senate Democrats on Friday called on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to take "robust" action against the uptick in anti-Asian sentiment and attacks since the COVID-19 pandemic began. In a letter shared exclusively with NBC Asian America, the lawmakers urged the chair of the commission, Catherine E. Lhamon, to issue guidance to...
The covid-19 virus originated in China, and many blame the Chinese for bringing the virus to the rest of the world. Because it is difficult for many non-Asian people to distinguish among different Asian subgroups, all Asians are treated as culprits... Even people harboring racist views know that it is not polite to express anti-Asian...
Inland Empire Community Foundation requests input from nonprofit groups to help respond to pressing needs during the COVID-10 outbreak. "COVID-19 is straining local nonprofits of all sizes and missions, with the loss of revenue from canceled fundraisers to having to adapt to new technology and find ways to care for vulnerable communities while keeping staff...
Almost half of the foreign-born who moved to the U.S. in the past decade were college-educated, a level of education greatly exceeding immigrants from previous decades, as the arrival of highly skilled workers supplanted workers in fields like construction that shrunk after the Great Recession. A number of “push and pull” factors, some decades in...
Nonprofits are finding creative ways to adapt to their census outreach due to the coronavirus pandemic. The in-person engagement has now shifted to a more online-based approach filled with texting and phone-banking campaigns and supplemental webinars and coaching calls. As the nation faces an unprecedented public health crisis, local groups are also trying to show...
By Deepa Bharath and Steve Scauzillo, Orange County Registrar |
And then along came the coronavirus — a pandemic that unleashed a torrent of hate and violence as bigots blamed Asian-Americans for the outbreak. In recent weeks, they have been yelled at, spit on, physically attacked and more, leading at least three organizations to begin tracking the episodes. Hundreds of people have filed reports, the...
With the National Census Day fast approaching, the University of California is asking its students to be counted. UC Riverside student and Center for Social Innovation Student Assistant, Eric Calderon, is well aware that his classmates, their lives suddenly upended by the coronavirus, may not have the U.S. census at the top of their minds...
Even though the U.S. Census Bureau has delayed field operations of its workers because of the measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, efforts to offer tools to enable more effective outreach are still ongoing. They are, and part of that effort is to make sure the census as well as community organizers has...
This fall, Asian American voters could help deliver key battleground districts in states like California and Texas to Democrats. According to a February survey of 600 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) likely voters conducted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the polling firm GBAO, these voters favor a Democratic candidate on the generic...
As COVID-19 spreads throughout San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, some worry that it will make counting the two counties’ population in the 2020 census even harder. Karthick Ramakrishnan is a professor of political science at UC Riverside and director of the Inland Empire Complete Count Committee. He says the disruption caused by coronavirus can make...
Since Trump's election, observers have argued that his racially inflammatory speech has emboldened people with deeply held prejudices to act on them — a phenomenon that the Southern Poverty Law Center, among others, refers to as the "Trump effect." Is it true? Have Trump's remarks normalized public expressions of bias? In brief, yes. The new...
The start of the 2020 census has brought together folks from the Asian American, such as representatives of Nepalese, Burmese, Bhutanese and Mongolian immigrants, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities to join forces with census officials and community organizers to ensure a complete count of the fastest growing sector of Asian immigrants to California over...
Polls from the past year showed that no one candidate had overwhelming support from the collective AAPI community, though a majority preferred an alternative to the current administration, according to an October 2019 survey from AAPI Data and PRRI. The same data had 45% of AAPI eligible voters in California favoring Biden, while 42% were...
