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.

Red Envelope Giving Circle's Grantees
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):
The Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC) is proud to award individuals and organizations grants every year. Over the 6 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):

New Announcement:  Our 2018 Grantees !!!


• “An Intergenerational Feast of Resistance” by QTViet Cafe - Bi-annual event to bring together different generations of Vietnamese Americans through radical, intergenerational cooking and cultural performance.

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• ROOTED, A docu-series by Asian Prisoner Support Committee - follows the lives of three formerly
incarcerated, queer and trans Asian & Pacific Islander women. 

• Hunnies & Hot Sauce - A radical queer & trans dance party to highlight QTPOC DJs, creatives, artists, entrepreneurs, organizers, and activists in the community. It is an intentional space for our community to be unapologetically themselves, unapologetically spicy.


• CPA-Gender Sexuality & Diversities Program's Gender Justice Youth Exchange - A 4-day, 3-night ​Gender​ ​Justice​ ​Youth​ ​Exchange​ ​will​ ​bring​ ​together youth​ ​from​ GSD ​with​ ​Khmer​ ​Girls​ ​in​ ​Action.


• Historically Queer Digital Project - A digital media project featuring stories of activism of LGBTQ people of
color across various social justice movements.


• SJSU’s Queer & Asian - A free three-day retreat for API-LGBTQ folks sixteen-years-old and up: undergraduates, graduate students, and community members.


• APIENC’s Trans Rights and Empowerment Day - a full day convening for transgender and gender nonconforming Asian and Pacific Islander people to learn their rights, explore their possibilities, and build an empowering community with other TGNC API people.


• Mind Body workshop “Lighten the burden, Radiate love” - A five-week, 2-hour weekly workshop designed to teach mind body medicine techniques to 8-10 participants from the Trikone and APIQWTC.


• Reclaiming the Sacred Workshop series - Fireside Chat celebrating healing through lei making with a corresponding lei making workshop series that features lei making from Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia


Last, but not least, we wanted to extend a special thanks to our philanthropic partners:  Horizons 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. 





To see the information of our previous grantees, please click on 2017 Grantees,