Red Envelope Giving Circle 
Red Envelope Giving Circle

 

   The Legacy of Giving 

 

 


Red Envelope Giving Circle
(REGC) is committed to
creating positive social change

in the Greater San Francisco

Bay Area through philanthropic support to Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ-led projects
to improve the lives of
API LGBTQ people and

communities.

Our 2015 Grantees
Every year, REGC solicits proposals from individuals or organizations. We select the proposals that best fit our mission and values, and gift to those individuals/organizations. Your donation of $250 or more entitles you to help select these organizations/individuals.

As a member of the AAPIP National Giving Circle Network, REGC is committed to fund different organizations or individuals every year. Our goal is to raise at least $10,000 a year, apply for matching funds so we can leverage our resources, and gift it all away.  

In 2015, we exceeded our goal!!! This year, we raised and received a match from AAPIP for a total of $12,000 to give away to the following six deserving organizations!!

 

Our 2015 Grantees !!!

 

  • Born on the Edge of Race & Gender (Willy Wilkinson)
  • The Gharana Project (Manali Karmarkar)
  • The Worlds of Bernice Bing (Madeline Lim)
  • Sex, Politics & Sticky Rice (Tina Takemoto)
  • El Camino (Alex Lee)
  • Dragon Fruit (Linda Nguyen)
More information about our 2015 grantees:
To see a list of previous grantees, please click on 2014 Grantees and 2013 Grantees. 
Born on the Edge of Race & Gender (Willy Wilkinson)

Willy Wilkinson, MPH is an award-winning writer and public health consultant who has been advancing API queer and trans issues over the last three decades through published articles, community organizing, and cultural competency training. He was a key organizer in the API lesbian movement of the ‘80s, and organized the first support groups for transmasculine people of color. A past editor of Phoenix Rising, he is the recipient of a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association award and the Transgender Law Center Vanguard Award. The Lambda Literary Review has described his writing as “highly evocative.” Willy’s book, "Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency" uses memoir as a tool to educate about cultural competency, public health, and policy advocacy issues. Learn more at www.willywilkinson.com.

Willy Wilkinson, MPH - Writer and Public Health Consultant

LGBT Cultural Competency Training and Technical Assistance

Transgender Expertise

www.willywilkinson.com - 510.531.5710

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Nguyễn is a planning committee member with the Dragon Fruit Project and works as a public librarian.

Linda Nguyễn

dragonfruit@apiequalitync.org

(415) 274-6760 x317

 

 

 

 

 

Alexander L. Lee is an independent filmmaker and transgender rights activist based in Oakland.  His latest work is the forthcoming short narrative film, EL CAMINO, which explores the hardships faced by youth with parents in prison. EL CAMINO is produced by Light Show Pictures, a new collective of queer & trans filmmakers of color.  Alex seeks to unite his political activism with his love of filmmaking to build bridges between communities, and EL CAMINO is his latest effort to do just that.

 

Alexander L. Lee, Filmmaker

Light Show Pictures

alexanderlee77@gmail.com

lightshowpictures.com | facebook.com/elcaminothefilm | @elcaminothefilm | @alexmakesfilms

 

 

 

 

 

Tina Takemoto is an artist and associate professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has presented artwork and performances internationally and has received grants funded by Art Matters, James Irvine Foundation, and San Francisco Arts Commission. Her film Looking for Jiro received Best Experimental Film Jury Award at the Austin LGBT International Film Festival. Takemoto's articles appear in Afterimage, Art Journal, GLQ, Performance Research, Radical Teacher, Theatre Survey, Women and Performance, and the anthology Thinking Through the Skin. Takemoto is the board president of the Queer Cultural Center and co-founder of Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts. On occasion, she makes guerrilla appearances as Michael Jackson and Bjork-Geisha.

 

Tina Takemoto

Associate Professor, Visual Studies

California College of the Arts

1111 Eighth Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

ttakemoto@cca.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Willy Wilkinson, MPH is an award-winning writer and public health consultant who has been advancing API queer and trans issues over the last three decades through published articles, community organizing, and cultural competency training. He was a key organizer in the API lesbian movement of the ‘80s, and organized the first support groups for transmasculine people of color. A past editor of Phoenix Rising, he is the recipient of a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association award and the Transgender Law Center Vanguard Award. The Lambda Literary Review has described his writing as “highly evocative.” Willy’s book, "Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency" uses memoir as a tool to educate about cultural competency, public health, and policy advocacy issues. Learn more atwww.willywilkinson.com.

Willy Wilkinson, MPH - Writer and Public Health Consultant

LGBT Cultural Competency Training and Technical Assistance

Transgender Expertise

www.willywilkinson.com - 510.531.5710

 


 

 

 

 

 

Linda Nguyễn is a planning committee member with the Dragon Fruit Project and works as a public librarian.

Linda Nguyễn

dragonfruit@apiequalitync.org

(415) 274-6760 x317

 

 

 

 

 

Alexander L. Lee is an independent filmmaker and transgender rights activist based in Oakland.  His latest work is the forthcoming short narrative film, EL CAMINO, which explores the hardships faced by youth with parents in prison. EL CAMINO is produced by Light Show Pictures, a new collective of queer & trans filmmakers of color.  Alex seeks to unite his political activism with his love of filmmaking to build bridges between communities, and EL CAMINO is his latest effort to do just that.

 

Alexander L. Lee, Filmmaker

Light Show Pictures

alexanderlee77@gmail.com

lightshowpictures.com | facebook.com/elcaminothefilm | @elcaminothefilm | @alexmakesfilms

 

 

 

 

 

Tina Takemoto is an artist and associate professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has presented artwork and performances internationally and has received grants funded by Art Matters, James Irvine Foundation, and San Francisco Arts Commission. Her film Looking for Jiro received Best Experimental Film Jury Award at the Austin LGBT International Film Festival. Takemoto's articles appear in Afterimage, Art Journal, GLQ, Performance Research, Radical Teacher, Theatre Survey, Women and Performance, and the anthology Thinking Through the Skin. Takemoto is the board president of the Queer Cultural Center and co-founder of Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts. On occasion, she makes guerrilla appearances as Michael Jackson and Bjork-Geisha.

 

Tina Takemoto

Associate Professor, Visual Studies

California College of the Arts

1111 Eighth Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

ttakemoto@cca.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Willy Wilkinson, MPH is an award-winning writer and public health consultant who has been advancing API queer and trans issues over the last three decades through published articles, community organizing, and cultural competency training. He was a key organizer in the API lesbian movement of the ‘80s, and organized the first support groups for transmasculine people of color. A past editor of Phoenix Rising, he is the recipient of a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association award and the Transgender Law Center Vanguard Award. The Lambda Literary Review has described his writing as “highly evocative.” Willy’s book, "Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency" uses memoir as a tool to educate about cultural competency, public health, and policy advocacy issues. Learn more atwww.willywilkinson.com.

Willy Wilkinson, MPH - Writer and Public Health Consultant

LGBT Cultural Competency Training and Technical Assistance

Transgender Expertise

www.willywilkinson.com - 510.531.5710

 
The Gharana Project (Manali Karmarkar)

Manali is a Bay Area native and a Board Member of Trikone, who has a personal interest in preserving peoples individual stories. The Gharana project is a video project that aims to document and record the video histories of both members of the South Asian LGBTQ community, as well as their family. The ultimate goal of this project is to document the diversity of stories within the South Asian LGBTQ community and foster greater acceptance and understanding both within and outside the greater South Asian LGBTQ community. 

 

Manali Karmarkar

(949) 378‐6112

www.trikone.org 
The Worlds of Bernice Bing (Madeline Lim)
Coming soon!
Sex, Politics & Sticky Rice (Tina Takemoto)
Tina Takemoto is an artist and associate professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has presented artwork and performances internationally and has received grants funded by Art Matters, James Irvine Foundation, and San Francisco Arts Commission. Her film Looking for Jiro received Best Experimental Film Jury Award at the Austin LGBT International Film Festival. Takemoto's articles appear in Afterimage, Art Journal, GLQ, Performance Research, Radical Teacher, Theatre Survey, Women and Performance, and the anthology Thinking Through the Skin. Takemoto is the board president of the Queer Cultural Center and co-founder of Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts. On occasion, she makes guerrilla appearances as Michael Jackson and Bjork-Geisha.

Tina Takemoto

Associate Professor, Visual Studies

California College of the Arts

1111 Eighth Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

ttakemoto@cca.edu
El Camino (Alex Lee)

Alexander L. Lee is an independent filmmaker and transgender rights activist based in Oakland.  His latest work is the forthcoming short narrative film, EL CAMINO, which explores the hardships faced by youth with parents in prison. EL CAMINO is produced by Light Show Pictures, a new collective of queer & trans filmmakers of color.  Alex seeks to unite his political activism with his love of filmmaking to build bridges between communities, and EL CAMINO is his latest effort to do just that.

 

Alexander L. Lee, Filmmaker

Light Show Pictures

alexanderlee77@gmail.com

lightshowpictures.com | facebook.com/elcaminothefilm | @elcaminothefilm | @alexmakesfilms
Dragon Fruit Project (Linda Nguyễn)

Linda Nguyễn is a planning committee member with the Dragon Fruit Project and works as a public librarian.


Linda Nguyễn

dragonfruit@apiequalitync.org

(415) 274-6760 x317 
2015 Red Envelope GC Grant Cycle has ended!!!!

Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC) was requesting grant applications for 2015. 
The process was open to those who were interested in applying for a grant, the previous application is located here - application.

The basic criteria for our grants are:

      • Any API queer can apply - individuals or organizations. Grantees from 2014 are not eligible.

      • A fiscal sponsor is required.

      • Maximum grant amounts are $2000 and grants will be distributed in January 2015.

Deadline for applications was September 15th, 2014.


For additional information, please contact Crystal Jang at doosie88@sbcglobal.net.