Chinese Progressive Association

The AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund, also known as AAPI FORCE, is a fiscally sponsored project of Chinese Progressive Association that educates and mobilizes low-propensity AAPI voters throughout California. This grant is one of several made to support organizations serving Asian and Pacific Islander communities, in the Bay Area and beyond, in response to the rise of violence against these communities in 2020 and 2021.

Founded in 1972, Chinese Progressive Association organizes and empowers the low-income and working-class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people. This grant is one of several made to support organizations serving Asian and Pacific Islander communities, in the Bay Area and beyond, in response to the rise of violence against these communities in 2020 and 2021.

Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes, and empowers the low-income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people. This grant will support one of their fiscally sponsored projects, the Black Futures Lab, which focuses on helping transform Black communities into active, interdependent, responsive public partners that change the way power operates at the local, state, and national level. It uses two interlocking efforts to accomplish this: the Black Imagination Incubator and the Shirley Chisholm Black Politics Project.