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.

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Transformative Models of Giving to Fund Transformative LGBTQ Activism

Institutional philanthropy and foundations have limitations, methods, and criteria that don’t always meet the needs of under-resourced communities. Indigenous, low-income, people of color, rural, transgender, and young LGBTQ communities face barriers to accessing institutional philanthropy and resourcing their self-led activism.  Given these barriers, people have gotten resourceful!...

an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.
an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.

an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.
an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.

an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.

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.....AAPIP's website, 4/21/2016, by Alice Y. Hom

Red Envelope Giving Circle: What Keeps Us Inspired?

A group of San Francisco/Bay Area activists formed the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC) after being inspired by Alice Y. Hom, who directed AAPIP’s Queer Justice Fund. Alice gave a presentation about the lack of foundation funding for Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) LGBTQ communities and issues which spurred us into action. We had the shared desire to give back to the AAPI LGBTQ community and with the support of the Horizons Foundation and AAPIP, REGC's intergenerational community of "givers" (the youngest being 7 years and oldest almost 80) has granted over $42,500 to 22 individual and group projects, completing REGC's 4th year of "Giving Back" to the AAPI-LGBTQ community...

an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.
an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.

an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.
an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.

an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.

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.....AAPIP's website, 3/29/2016
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Creating a Piece of History

It was an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.  That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving...

an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.
an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.

an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.
an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.

an auspicious and historic weekend.  A precedent-setting Presidential inauguration was on the horizon in Washington D.C. and the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream" speech was near.

That same weekend, at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, a different kind of precedent was being set: the first AAPI LGBTQ Giving Circle in California, the Red Envelope Giving Circle (REGC), celebrated its first year of giving.

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.....AAPIP's website, 2/18/2013

Asian-Americans Gain Influence  in  Philanthropy

Affluent immigrants are giving generously to universities, museums, concert halls and hospitals, as well as to groups focused on their own diasporas or homelands.  Members of a new class of affluent Asian-Americans, many of whom have benefited from booms in finance and technology, are making their mark on philanthropy in the United States...

 

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.....The New York times, 1/8/2013