The Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC) is proud to announce that we are awarding 12 individuals and organizations grants this year. In this grant cycle, REGC awarded more than $21,000. Over the 5 years of giving, REGC has funded over 33 projects, in excess of $64,000.
We continue our focus towards projects that elevate the voices and address the needs of LGBTQ Asian Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. This year we received the highest number of applications in our history. We are so excited to support these projects as they will have an immense impact on our community. The projects we funded are as follows (please check them out):
We continue our focus towards projects that elevate the voices and address the needs of LGBTQ Asian Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. This year we received the highest number of applications in our history.
We are so excited to support these projects as they will have an immense impact on our community. The projects we funded are as follows (please check them out):
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New Announcement: Our 2017 Grantees !!!
- Solidarity Get-Togethers Between Black and API Trans Women and Femmes: Sharing About the Prison Industrial Complex, Violence, and Safety (Billy Chen)
- Isa's Lunch: Butch Bentos For Sale (Tina Takemoto)
- XANH, the movie (Sal Tran / Tracy Nguyen)
- ASPIRE Summer Leadership Academy (Wei Lee)
- The 10th Annual Queer and Asian Conference, 2017 (Rachel Ng)
- Breaking the Silence: Queer and Trans Koreans Surviving Violence (Esther Kang)
- The Bay Area's Queer Muslim Women's Retreat
- Trans Justice Initiative (Sammie Ablaza Wills)
- Awakening the Inner Beloved: Cultivating self love for queer and trans, Asian and Pacific Islanders (Niralli D'Costa)
- Scholarship Fund for People of Color Inner Peace, Outer Peace Program (Prajna Paramita Choudhury)
- Cost of Leisure Book Tour (Amy Sueyoshi)
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Solidarity Get-Togethers Between Black and API Trans Women and Femmes: Sharing About the Prison Industrial Complex, Violence, and Safety
Transgender, Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) is committed to challenging human rights abuses committed against transgender, gender variant, and intersex people in the California prison industrial complex. Funding for this project will be used for 2 get-togethers intended to explore and build solidarity between low, survival and no income Black and API trans women and femmes. Topics will focus on experiences with the prison industrial complex, violence/harm, and safety strategies, and reports will be written to assist further work.
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Isa's Lunch: Butch Bentos For Sale
ISA'S LUNCH is an experimental film inspired by Isa Shimoda, a gender nonconforming immigrant serving meals to Japanese American female cannery workers. Known for sword dancing and mannish attire, Shimoda was identified by authorities as "female" upon arrival at Poston camp and "male" when released. ISA'S LUNCH is part of a trilogy of films exploring hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and queer sexuality among Japanese Americans (Nikkei) imprisoned by the US government during World War II. Funds will be used for research, production, and post-production purposes.
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XANH is a ten-minute short film that explores clothing as a form of liberation. Xanh’s (they/them) mother is a seamstress who polices Xanh’s gender presentation through the creation of feminine clothes. As their mom continuously criticizes their wardrobe, Xanh experiences nightmares that pushes them to search for peace within. The goal of the film is to create a production that is by and for queer and trans Vietnamese people. Over 75% of the cast and crew identify as LGBTQ API. Funds will be used for post-production and community cultivating efforts.
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ASPIRE Summer Leadership Academy
The internship is an intensive six-week part-time (15 to 20 hours per week) opportunity to cultivate the leadership development of undocument API. The interns will engage in community education, advocacy, outreach, and organizing around undocumented API issues in the local and state level.
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The 10th Annual Queer and Asian Conference, 2017
QACON is an annual conference that celebrates the intersectionality of the queer and Asian identities. Through a series of workshops, speaker keynotes, performances, and social events, we aim to provide a space for empowerment, education, exploration, celebration, and intersection regarding the queer and Asian community and identities.
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Breaking the Silence: Queer and Trans Koreans Surviving Violence
QYUL, (Queer and Trans Koreans Yearning for Unity and Liberation), a grassroots queer and trans project of KACEDA (Korean American Coalition to End Domestic Abuse) is organizing a national research project for and by LGBTQ Korean survivors. They hope to conduct a national online survey and multiple focus groups, publish their findings, and develop appropriate resources. They are focused on queer and trans Koreans and their experiences with domestic violence. This is a project run for and by queer and trans Koreans.
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Breaking the Silence: Queer and Trans Koreans Surviving Violence
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The Bay Area's Queer Muslim Women's Retreat
3.5 day retreat for queer and trans Muslim women in North America hosted in the Bay Area. Focused on building solidarity and fellowship. Have workshops on educating LGBT community and straight Muslim community about being queer and Muslim, social justice struggles, etc. The goal is to create positive social change and strengthen their identity as queer and trans Muslim women. Grant dollars will be used to fund travel, meeting materials, food and venue space.
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The APIENC Trans Justice Initiative aims to build understanding and combat transphobia within Asian and Pacific Islander communities through outreach and public education workshops. The project goals are to build Trans 101 curriculum, translate resources into API languages, and document learned practices from our contributions to larger gender justice efforts.
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APIENC Trans Justice Initiative
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Awakening the Inner Beloved: Cultivating self love for queer and trans, Asian and Pacific Islanders
Awakening the Inner Beloved would bring queer and trans Asian and Pacific Islanders together for three day long events focused on cultivating self love through embodied spiritual practice, deep nature connection, and energy healing to restore harmony to the body, mind and spirit.
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Awakening the Inner Beloved
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Scholarship Fund for People of Color Inner Peace, Outer Peace Program
People of Color in the Inner Peace, Outer Peace Mindfulness Meditation 6 week program at Energy Matters Acupuncture & Qi Gong. Currently open to all and offered 4 times annually.
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People of Color Inner Peace, Outer Peace Program
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Cost of Leisure Book Tour
The book traces how whites pursuing sexual freedom in 1890s San Francisco created the American "Oriental," a sexualized racial stereotype that has persisted. Publication is scheduled for March 2017, and a national book tour is planned to present at academic departments, cultural centers, historical societies, museums and book stores in 4-5 cities. Local readings are also planned.
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Please help us continue to share our stories and build a strong LGBTQ API movement. If you would like to become a member and make a tax-deductible donation, visit our website to find out how.
Last, but not least, we wanted to extend a special thanks to our philanthropic partners: Horizons Foundation, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) – without their support and guidance, we would not be able to be so generous this year.
Please help us continue to share our stories and build a strong LGBTQ API movement. If you would like to become a member and make a tax-deductible donation, visit our website to find out how.
Last, but not least, we wanted to extend a special thanks to our philanthropic partners: Horizons Foundation, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) – without their support and guidance, we would not be able to be so generous this year. Please help us continue to share our stories and build a strong LGBTQ API movement. If you would like to become a member and make a tax-deductible donation, visit our website to find out how.
Last, but not least, we wanted to extend a special thanks to our philanthropic partners: Horizons Foundation, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) – without their support and guidance, we would not be able to be so generous this year.
Please help us continue to share our stories and build a strong LGBTQ API movement. If you would like to become a member and make a tax-deductible donation, visit our website to find out how.
Last, but not least, we wanted to extend a special thanks to our philanthropic partners: Horizons Foundation, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) – without their support and guidance, we would not be able to be so generous this year. Please help us continue to share our stories and build a strong LGBTQ API movement. If you would like to become a member and make a tax-deductible donation, visit our website to find out how.
Last, but not least, we wanted to extend a special thanks to our philanthropic partners: Horizons Foundation, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) – without their support and guidance, we would not be able to be so generous this year.
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