AAPI Civic Engagement Fund
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grantee
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has pledged $500 million over five years to racial justice groups. AAPI Civic Engagement Fund's ARIJ Fund was one of the recipients of the grants.[1],[2]
- "The ARIJ Fund was established by the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund in 2020 to address the alarming spike in anti-Asian violence and hate crimes spurred by race-based targeting of China and Chinese people as scapegoats for the COVID-19 pandemic, but has much deeper roots in the race-based targeting that has been going on for centuries — particularly against African Americans. In 2020, ARIJ made one-time grants totaling more than $1.6M to local AAPI groups to counteract this trend in anti-Asian violence."