Chinese for Affirmative Action

Through the Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) network, Chinese for Affirmative Action dba AACRE provides fiscal sponsorship and administrative support to Asian American social justice groups focused on long-term movement building, capacity infrastructure, and leadership support for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders committed to social justice. AACRE leverages the power of its network by developing the relationships, critical connections, and unique strengths that exist among its member groups. Shared capacity work includes access to common facilities, financial management, and administrative support systems.

Groups within the AACRE network include:
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
APEX Express
Asian Prisoner Support Committee
Asian Refugees United
Chinese for Affirmative Action (including Justice Patch, PiYaoBa, and Stop AAPI Hate)
Hmong Innovating Politics
Hyphen
Lavender Phoenix
Network on Religion and Justice
VietUnity
Visibility Project

Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) is a fiscally sponsored group of CAA dba AACRE whose mission 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.

Services include: sustaining political education in-reach programs at San Quentin, California Institute for Women, and Central California Women's Facility; reentry services and programming; anti-deportation campaign support; developing formerly incarcerated leadership; and supporting members that have been deported.

Asian Refugees United (ARU) is a fiscally sponsored group of CAA dba AACRE. ARU is a refugee-led art and healing leadership center that cultivates and restores wholeness in communities impacted by displacement.

ARU's work centers the voices of the Vietnamese and Bhutanese refugee communities who fled persecution in their home countries only to face new and shared struggles resettling in East Oakland, California, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

ARU builds intergenerational and interethnic power through leadership development, political education, community organizing, social movement building, storytelling, artistic and cultural practices, and cross-cultural communications.

Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP) is a fiscally sponsored group of CAA dba AACRE whose mission is to advance social justice and build power with Hmong youth and families through leadership development and multi-generational community organizing.

HIP's strategies include innovative civic engagement, base-building, youth leadership development and empowerment, and narrative change work.

HIP started in Sacramento but has since expanded its work to Fresno in 2018. HIP is dedicated to connecting and mobilizing two of the largest Hmong American communities in California.

Lavender Phoenix is a fiscally sponsored group of CAA dba AACRE that seeks to address discrimination, inequality, and the struggles of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals within the context of the APA civil rights agenda. Through organizing in the Bay Area, Lavender Phoenix inspires and trains grassroots leaders, transforms values from scarcity to abundance, and builds vibrant intersectional movements.

All of Lavender Phoenix's programs are led by QTAPI members who are directly impacted by the issues they address. Core programs include leadership development; community safety; healing and care; ecological justice; and movement building.

The Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA) is a fiscally sponsored group of CAA dba AACRE. A San Francisco Bay Area all-volunteer group, ASATA is working to educate, organize, and empower the Bay Area South Asian communities to end violence, oppression, racism and exploitation within and against our diverse communities.

Bay Area Solidarity Summer (BASS) is a project of ASATA founded in 2000 to help educate, organize, and empower San Francisco Bay Area South Asian communities. BASS is a stayover political action camp for progressive South Asian youth who want to create social change!

APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Asian Americans from all corners of the community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, djs, and activists and airs each week on KPFA 94.1FM.

Visibility Project is a national portrait and oral history archive highlighting queer Asian Pacific American women, trans, and gender non-conforming communities. The Visibility Project utilizes powerful photography and personal storytelling narratives that embrace the intersections of queer APAs.

Hyphen:
Hyphen is a news and culture magazine that tells the stories of Asian America, beyond identity, featuring emerging artists, thinkers and doers. By documenting and disseminating these stories, Hyphen contributes to the ever-expanding, multifaceted narrative of Asians in America.

Network on Religion and Justice:
The Network on Religion and Justice for Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People works to nurture and support efforts toward a fully inclusive Asian Pacific Islander faith community.

VietUnity Bay Area:
Promotes a progressive voice within the Vietnamese Community. Through alliance building, community education, organizing, and collective action, Viet Unity Bay Area works towards positive social change that acknowledges and combats all forms and systems of oppression.