by TEAM APEN | May 18, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Statewide, Stories, Uncategorized
Crisis is a threat multiplier for inequality. Whether it’s a global pandemic, mass power shutoffs, or devastating wildfires, the impacts and risks are dramatically different depending on who you are and where you live. Climate Resilience bond proposals from the...
by TEAM APEN | Apr 7, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Statewide, Stories
Sorry, requests for APEN’s COVID-19 Emergency Community Stabilization Fund are temporarily suspended! Thank you for your interest in the fund. Within a week of the request form going live, we’ve received over 100 applications with requested needs totaling...
by Marie Choi | Mar 26, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Statewide, Stories
At APEN, we are adapting quickly to this time of rapid change and uncertainty: raising emergency funds to stabilize our communities, fighting for eviction moratoriums and debt forgiveness, and standing up to the rising tide of anti-Asian racism and violence. With...
by Clio | Mar 25, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Events, Oakland, Richmond, Statewide, Stories
We know that working class, undocumented, unhoused, disabled, elderly, immuno-compromised, and low-income community members will suffer the worst impacts of this ongoing pandemic—and that our physical distance from one another will pose new challenges to our...
by Clio | Mar 16, 2020 | Oakland, Power to the Frontlines, Richmond, Statewide, Stories
Support working-class Asian immigrant and refugee families through the COVID-19 pandemic. As we face one of the worst pandemics of our lifetimes, we know that our best chance of weathering the storm is to pool our resources and help the people in our...
by TEAM APEN | Feb 19, 2020 | Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Power to the Frontlines, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
This week, The James Irvine Foundation announced that our Executive Director, Miya Yoshitani, was named a 2020 Leadership Award recipient. The award comes with a grant of $250,000 to support APEN’s work to mobilize Asian immigrants and refugees to win groundbreaking...
