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$1 Billion Raised for AAPI Same Day Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Act Signed
A philanthropic initiative called The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) raised over $1 billion for AAPI communities, the organization announc...
Kimberly Nguyen
Nets’ Joe Tsai, Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang and More Launch $250 Million Initiative to Fight Hate
Several influential business leaders have recently started a $250 million initiative dedicated to serving 23 million Asian Americans and Pac...
Thy Nguyen
Navy Corpsman Runs as a Stormtrooper to Fundraise for The Wounded Warrior Project
A Navy hospital corpsman at Camp Pendleton in California helped raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project by rucking 10 kilometers (6.2 mi...
Bryan Ke
China Mac Hits $10,000 Fundraising Goal to Help NYC Chinatown Businesses Affected by Pandemic
A GoFundMe campaign, organized by Chinese American rapper China Mac and actor William Lex Ham to help businesses affected by the COVID-19 pa...
NextShark & ADMERASIA Launches Map to Help BIPOC-owned Small Businesses in Crisis
NextShark and ADMERASIA have teamed up to launch an interactive donation map to help BIPOC-owned businesses affected by looters who took adv...
Maina Chen
UPDATE: Korean Siblings Who Lost Dad, Grandma to COVID-19 Still Waiting on Lung Transplant at USC
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to report that Hannah and Joseph’s mother, Eun-Ju, has been transferred to USC Keck...
Andrew Yang Teams Up With Twitter CEO to Give Out $5 Million to Americans
Andrew Yang is handing out $250 to 20,000 Americans after receiving a $5 million donation from Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey this w...
Carl Samson
Coronavirus
Dartmouth Students Code Entire Site in 36 Hours to Help Over 6,000 Essential Workers
Two Dartmouth College students used the time they had during the pandemic to create Give Essential, a website that matches frontline workers...
Community Raises Over $90,000 to Help Gilroy Donut House Family Amid Pandemic
Customers of the Gilroy Donut House in Gilroy, California raised over $90,000 to help the family-owned business as they deal with the impact...
Food
Asian Community Volunteers Deliver Over 150 Meals A Day FOR FREE in NYC
Local NYC grocer Patrick Mock has been spearheading an initiative to provide free food to the elderly, homeless, frontline and essential wor...
Teen Raises $7,500, Donates 11,000 Masks to Texas Hospital to Fight Hate Towards Asians
A 15-year-old teen in Addison, Texas donated 11,000 masks to a local hospital using money she raised from crowdfunding and hopes the gesture...
Daniel Dae Kim Donates Plasma to Help Other Patients Survive COVID-19
Actor Daniel Dae Kim is now doing his part to help save the lives of other patients after he successfully recovered from COVID-19. In an Ins...
Ryan General
Asian American Advocates Team Up on Easter to Support FDNY EMS
Community advocate, Edwin Wong, President of The Forest Hills Asian Association (FHAA), Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, and the FDNY Phoenix So...
Feature
Panda Express Donates $2 Million in Face Masks to Frontline Healthcare Workers
Andrew and Peggy Cherng, the founders of Panda Express, are donating $2 million dollars worth of protective equipment to front-liners battli...
TikTok Rival Triller Donates 150,000 N95 Respirators, Surgical Masks to Hospitals in LA
A social video platform touted as TikTok’s biggest American rival has donated 150,000 N95 respirators and surgical masks to first resp...
Philadelphia Chinatown Businesses Donate 25,000 Face Masks to Healthcare Workers Fighting COVID-19
The Philadelphia Chinese Community Organizations United (PCCOU) donated 25,000 face masks to local hospitals to protect the city’s hea...
Ernestine Siu
St. Louis Banh Mi Shop Donates Meals to Hospital Workers Battling COVID-19
The Banh Mi Shop in Missouri is just one of many businesses that have decided to donate food to those helping on the front lines of preventi...
Andrew Yang’s Nonprofit Will Give Over $1 Million to Help Americans Fight COVID-19
Humanity Forward, Andrew Yang‘s non-profit organization, is allotting over $1 million to help working families affected by COVID-19 in the ...
Microbiologist Raises $24K on GoFundMe to Get Medical Supplies for Wuhan
An assistant professor and microbiologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, started a GoFundMe for healthcare workers, medical mic...
Family of HS Student Gunned Down by Cops For Holding a Pen Crowdfunds For Funeral
The family of Tommy Le, who was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in King County hours before his graduation from an alternative high schoo...
Khier Casino
A Recycling Firm Wants to Give $100,000 to the Woman Who Donated This Rare Apple Computer
An unidentified woman unwittingly recycled a rare, treasured computer put together by Steve Jobs which she now stands to make $100,000 from...
Augustine Reyes Chan
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