Asian Breast Health Outreach Project
Addresses the barriers of language, culture, limited resources, and knowledge making breast cancer screenings easier for uninsured and underserved Asian Women.

Will go to support their general Scholarship Fund to support APIA students in North Texas.

Best Buddies North Texas Expansion
For their School Friendship Program that builds friendships and connections between people with and without Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD).

A pilot program in partnership with Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation to expand programming to women living with issues common to parenting children with special needs and who might also be facing challenges unique to their refugee status, poverty, and/or domestic violence situation.

Supporting the increased need post-pandemic to sustain their staff and provide services by addressing the root causes that perpetuate domestic violence.

Bridging the Gap in Victims Services
Support the Chin families (their second largest language group) and other Asian language speakers with translation services and expanded infrastructure.

Chin Family Empowerment Program
Provides evidence-based programs that empower refugee settled students to stay in school and achieve in life in the Lewisville school district.

Translation Services Program
Address language Barriers for their Asian families by engaging a Translation Service.

Life Skills/ Youth Leadership/ Cultural Outreach
Support their Life skills and Leadership programs through workshops and address hate crimes through awareness and education.

Partnership Home Program
Help provide a home for a Southeast Asian refugee family resettling in the Fort Worth Area.

Defray the cost of barrier-free access to healthcare services for the uninsured and underinsured Women and Children Burmese refugee population in Vickery Meadows.

Head, Heart, and Hands ( H3) Program
Funds education equity programs by providing homework support and social-emotional support.

Political Power for North Texas AAPI Young Women
Provides hybrid in-person, virtual, and sustainable community-based training programs to prepare them to step into civic and political leadership roles.

Empowering Asian Women Business Accelerator
Establish business support through a four-week small business accelerator program for Asian small business owners.

Literacy and Life Skills Program
Serving Immigrant and refugee families with free educational services including Adult English Literacy, Early Childhood Education, and Student Support Services.

Multicultural Victims Services Program
Partially supports a salary for a full-time case manager that serves women and children survivors of abuse, including victims of family violence, trafficking, and/or sexual assault.

ESL for Adults
Provides a 10-level semester-based program consisting of day and evening classes taught by trained volunteers online or in RISD and library classrooms.

Will help an at-risk, low-income student exit poverty by completing career-ready vocational, associate, or bachelor's degrees.

Peace in the Home Social Services
Provides culturally sensitive and trauma-informed therapy service through outreach and education projects for Muslim Women and children.

Preventative Health Care Program
Removes barriers such as transportation for elderly Asian women redesign in Community Homes and Low-Income Housing Tax credit Apartments through Collin County.

Grant will contribute to the Demographic Research Project Report that will be developed on a digital demographic website. It will incorporate disaggregated data from the 2020 Census, American Community Survey, and other datasets available on AAPI communities, including community-level input.

Grant will support a 20-year-old breast health outreach program at Methodist Richardson Medical Center that empowers the local ethnic communities to do their routine mammograms and provide access to breast cancer detection.

Grant will support the Women's Film Showcase The Asian Film Festival of Dallas that will spotlight Asian and Asian-American women filmmakers. The Festival is scheduled for July 2022 and provides networking and a public platform for Asian Women in the film industry.

Grant will support 7 APIA women with scholarships for a college degree. 65% of the Scholars are first-generation college students and 70% live at or below the poverty line.

Grant will support mental health services through evidence-based trauma-informed therapy that will improve the investigation and prosecution of severe child abuse cases.

Grant will support programs on Life Skills, Youth Leadership, and Equity and Inclusion awareness and education programs focusing on hate crimes towards the Asian population.

Grant will provide access to affordable healthcare in several fields, primarily dental health, mental health, and women’s health to the Bhutanese refugees in the DFW and surrounding areas.

Grant will support programs on Life Skills, Youth Leadership, and Equity and Inclusion awareness and education programs focusing on hate crimes towards the Asian population.

Grant will support the Courage and Compassion Special Exhibit; our shared story of the Japanese American World War II Experience. The Exhibit is scheduled for January 2022—June 2022.

Grant will support programs focused on training and mobilizing young women in Texas to address public policy challenges, have a political voice, and/or possibly run for leadership positions or a public office.

Grant will contribute to the costs of hiring an Extended Case Manager Casework Assistant to support Extended Case Management (ECM) program enrollment and service provision for Asian refugee Women.

Grant will be used to support programs for immigrant and refugee families by providing free educational programs, including Adult English Literacy, Early Childhood, and Student Support Services in the Vickery Meadow neighborhood.

Grant will support services for Asian women and children surviving family violence or human trafficking.

Leadership Grant for Professional Development

Grant will provide ESL and workforce readiness programs for low-income adult English Language learners who live or work in Northern Dallas County.

This grant will be used for nonpartisan programs that educate and empower our electorate. Goals include nonpartisan voter registration, reduction of barriers, empower women to lead in voter registration efforts.

Grant will allow older adults to volunteer in the community, through the Foster Grandparent Program and RSVP Program. These programs will address the isolation currently being felt while allowing them to be role models to others both children and adults.

Grant will support a program that will address domestic and intimate partner violence (including sexual violence). It promotes self-sufficiency, resiliency, healing, safety, and long-term independence for people who have experienced family violence.

Grant will help with home construction costs for, a refugee woman from Myanmar. This neighborhood revitalization program is focused on ending the cycle of poverty through sustainable affordable housing

Grant will support a program that provides college readiness to 7th-12th grade students in the Vickery Meadow community. One hundred percent of the Scholars graduate from high school, with 86% enrolling in college, 69% persisting through college, and 49% graduating college.

Grant will provide healthcare services for Asian Women seniors in low-income housing that rely entirely on WCOA for monitoring their healthcare in three Plano Community Homes.

Leadership Grant for Professional Development

APIA Scholars provide college scholarships to undergraduate female APIA Scholars in North Texas.Funds will provide scholarships to 5 women college students at $2500 each.

Provides culturally specific services to South Asian victims of domestic violence.Funds will be used to provide access to legal services, develop skills in the workforce, and remove transportation barriers they face.

Empowers PK-12 students to stay in school and achieve in life. The goal is to decrease dropout rates for this underserved community.The grant will be used to hire a part-time Chin Family Engagement Specialist (CFES).

Serves both the Asian and the non-Asian communities in the DFW area through educational, cultural, and recreational programs and activities for both adults and children. The grant will focus on life skills for underserved Asians at age 50+, equality for men and women in their 20's to '40s, and leadership in children ages 8 to 18.

Is an education non-profit that serves refugee children with a holistic afterschool program utilizing trauma-informed care to help them thrive in their new community. The grant would go towards salaries and training for staff providing these critical services.

Motivates women at an early age to become civically engaged to become the next generation of policymakers and political leaders. This grant will be used for staff that will create and execute programming for AAPI young women across DFW to become civically engaged and step into political power.

Serves immigrant and refugee families with free educational programs including Adult English Literacy, Early Childhood, and Student Support Services. Funding will support the English Literacy Programs in Vickery Meadow serving 600 adults and 135 young children annually.

Orchid Giving Circle received a grant from AAPIP ( Asian American Pacific Islander in Philanthropy) from their Covid-19 mini-grant fund. Mini-grants were to be used to supplement the grantmaking of giving circles toward addressing the rise of racism against Asian-Americans in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Literacy Achieves received a mini-grant of $3000 to support their “All Have Value” Campaign that addresses Anti-Asian Discrimination and will provide volunteer and staff training specific to the Asian population.

Provides breast health awareness, education, navigation & mammogram services to our local minority communities. This grant will support the budget needed to provide these services to our Asian communities.

Meets the needs of multicultural women and children who are survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. Will support partial salary for a Shelter Advocate and hotline interpretation costs for Asian languages, supporting approximately 50 Asian women and girls.

Executive Director, Rekha Suryanarayana created a program that serves children with special needs.This grant will be used for a staff retreat. There is an increased need for nonrestrictive funds due to the COVID pandemic

Provides direct services and programming for Asian-American and all women who have survived domestic violence. Will use funds towards counseling women who are not able to seek help at this time and might require funds to be unrestricted to use for operational costs. 

Provides services to enable older adults to live to their fullest potential through nine programs that assist, protect, and connect older adults to needed resources, services, and tools. Funding will assist with volunteer recognition, translation services, and staffing support for the foster grandparent program that engages seniors from the Asian community. 

Seeks to provide a continuum of support and care to the 7500 youth in the Vickery Meadow neighborhood, beginning with early childhood and continuing through college graduation. Funds will provide a counselor for mental health support and summer field trips in 2021 for middle school through college students.

Provide funding for six deserving and need based undergraduate female APIA Scholars in North Texas.

Refugee Match Grant program which helps refugees from Asian countries like Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma etc. reach economic self-sufficiency within six months of arrival in the U.S. through employment support, case management, and limited financial assistance.

Confidential helpline and provide financial assistance for rent, utilities, household items, and transportation for domestic violence victims from the South Asian community.

Support focus groups and visits to Crow Museum by increasing awareness through PR and marketing, engagement with UT Dallas student and faculty populations and the Asian residents living in the surrounding geographic areas.

Programs and services designed to inspire Asians to move up, through learning and networking, to do better and to improve their quality of life.

Asian American Rights strand of the American Ideals, Realities and Repair interactive kiosks in the Pivot to America Wing in new museum building.

Support to help defray the cost of medical, dental and behavioral healthcare for uninsured and underinsured Burmese women.

Support for Bhutanese women’s physical and mental health through mammograms, yoga, care packages,etc.

Head Heart and Hands (H3) Social Emotional Learning Program for refugee children in Vickery Meadow from various Asian countries including Bhutan, Burma, Nepal etc.

Recruit and train AAPI young women in civic engagement through programming and voter registration drives as well as mobilize AAPI communities to be counted in the 2020 census.

Family Literacy Program in Vickery Meadow serving refugees both adults and children from various Asian countries including Bhutan, Burma, Nepal etc.

Support the partial salary for a case manager in the Refugee Health Access Services program, serving 120 Asian women and girls in the Dallas area.

TMWF Peace in the Home: Culturally Specialized Family Violence Program (PIH-DV) focusing on the needs of the Muslim Community.

Transportation and Translation Services for Asian Foster Grandparent program.

Support understandable, culturally appropriate outreach, breast health education,and access to preventive breast care services for the at-risk Asian population. Due to knowledge, financial, linguistic, and cultural barriers, this target population avoids prevention measures and thereforehas one of the lowest screening rates in the nation and higher cancer findings than the rest of the state. Funds will serve 170 Asian people in the Dallas surrounding area.

The creation of an In-House Counseling Program would enable clients to be more successful in accessing counseling, overcoming trauma, and achieving overall goals. Through creation of prevention curriculum, CHETNA could spread awareness and assist in breaking the cycle of violence.

Support learning and networking, enrolling 200 participants in courses and seminars based on their specific needs towards self sufficiency. Courses include English as a Second Language, Driver's Ed and Computer Literacy and seminars include personal finance, tax, corporate culture, immigration and path to citizenship

Health fair in December of 2018 providing services such as a mammogram trucks, which will allow more refugee women to participate because they will not have to go off-site.

Head, Heart, and Hands (H3) a comprehensive approach with academic, social-emotional, and character development programming specifically focused on refugee children who are working to move from a state of chaos to calm. The grant will serve up to 40 students, mostly female ages 10 and under and about 75 mothers through the Parent Engagement Center.

Programs that spotlight the experiences of Asian American women who are in positions of power in order to demystifies stereotypes about leadership and provides young women with role models to learn from. Our training and voter registration efforts, encourage young Asian American women to become civically engaged and own their political power.

Family Literacy Program in Vickery Meadows which offers immigrant and refugee adult students the opportunity to learn English at the same time as their young children. Students attend morning or afternoon classes four days per week Monday – Thursday and attend Parent and Child Together and parent programs on Fridays.

Support partial salary for a Case Manager in the Refugee Health Access Services Program. These funds will support 80-100 Asian refugee women and girls in the Dallas area, one of the primary groups in our target population served.

Support the Peace in the Home Domestic Violence program to address the need for culturally specific, trauma informed intervention and prevention services focusing on the under-served Muslim community. Services are open to all domestic violence victims seeking assistance. PIH DV intervention services are projected support over 400 women and children victims (215 Asian) and prevention services are projected to
reach over 15,000 this year.