Beneficiary Partners

Every year, Project by Project - San Francisco (PbPSF) partners with a non-profit organization to advance awareness of important social issues in the San Francisco Bay Area AAPI community.

2023 EDUCATION ACCESS: OAKLAND ASIAN CULTURAL CENTER

Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to build vibrant communities through AAPI arts and cultural programs that foster intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue and understanding, collaboration, and social justice. OACC envisions vibrant, healthy, and just communities where diverse Asian and Pacific Islander identities and heritage are affirmed and celebrated through cross-cultural exchange, intergenerational dialogue, and educational programming. 

OACC and The Community

Founded in 1984 by a group of volunteers, OACC has made its home in the heart of Oakland Chinatown. Since opening its own facility in 1996, the OACC has hosted numerous arts and cultural programs, such as:

  • Art or photography exhibitions that cover various topics like housing and supporting local artists

  • BHM x LNY combined celebrations

  • In-person or virtual Q&A and panel discussions with authors, directors or activists

  • Community healing space gathering

  • Classes and workshops in a variety of topics such as taichi, ikebana, qi gong, calligraphy, painting or music

  • Ballet performances

Every year, their programming engages a diverse audience of more than 25,000 attendees. 

OACC and PbP SF

OACC shares our vision of empowering AAPI communities, and their mission aligns with our 2023 campaign of Education Access. This year's campaign will focus on a wide array of issues aimed at ensuring equal and equitable access to high-quality educational opportunities — and OACC embodies our goal for 2023.

  • Florence Fang Community Farm sits on the land of the former Diana Street Farm, the last operating farm in San Francisco, active until the late 1980s. The one-acre farm is located on top of a functioning Caltrain tunnel and is surrounded by single-family homes and a dense population of diverse residents. The site features include an urban cul-de-sac, staircase, and views of Candlestick Park and San Bruno Mountain. The land has been made a community site through an agreement between AsianWeek Foundation and CalTrain. Portions of the site are intended for housing development as part of a long-term sustainability plan for the community farm and the neighborhood.

    The Florence Fang Community Farm is a community site for all San Franciscans, based in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in the southeast part of the city. Since our establishment in 2014, we have become the largest community farm and second most productive urban farm in San Francisco. Our community farm brings together a network of community groups and residents around policy issues of environmental sustainability, cultural diversity, and healthy living activities and eating practices.

    FFCF aims to improve food security, increase healthy living habits, practice natural farming techniques, improve the environment, support neighborhood economic opportunity, and increase social connectedness within and between communities of color. Our farm also supports our community’s food sovereignty by providing a food source that is consistent with cultural identities and involving community networks that promote self-reliance and mutual aid.

    Our farm is a living and breathing showcase of how gardening design, farming techniques, and biodiversity can be shared and celebrated across cultures and differences, primarily those that reflect our residents and participants.

  • Asian American and Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment Education Fund (AAPI FORCE) is a network organization that advances campaigns, policies and issues to support low-income, working class Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Our work focuses on coordinated efforts of voter engagement and organizing work that builds the leadership and power of our community so that we can win lasting, progressive change for all.

    Through integrated voter engagement, we educate and mobilize low-propensity AAPI voters through a range of multilingual and culturally competent direct voter outreach strategies, including door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, direct mail, text messaging, and social media.  Our network steering committee organizations consist of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Chinese Progressive Association, Khmer Girls in Action, Hmong Innovating Politics, and Filipino Advocates for Justice - representing workers, tenants, parents, and youth. Together, we create spaces for statewide strategizing, capacity and movement building.

    Within the broader social justice movement, our organizations also possess a fundamental belief that AAPI leadership and voices are needed as part of a winning coalition with other people of color and allies, including the LGBTQ, immigrant rights, workers’ rights and environmental justice movements. This belief in alliance building is reflected in our participation with a range of local, state and national alliances.

    In our efforts of building AAPI electoral power, it's also going hand in hand with building a large statewide alliance of People of Color led integrated voter engagement organizations through the Million Voters Project, where we are working to create a more diverse and engaged electorate. Our work to mobilize AAPI voters include mobilizing them on shared goals and agenda with black/brown communities.

  • 2019 - Gum Moon Women’s Residence
    2018 - Vietnamese American Community Center
    2017 - 20th Anniversary
    2016 - API Equality Northern California
    2015 - Chinatown Community Development Center
    2014 - Asian Community Mental Health Services
    2013 - Kearny Street Workshop
    2012 - 15th Anniversary
    2011  - Oakland Asian Student Education Services (a.k.a. EBAYC)
    2010 - APA Family Support Services