Our Grantees
New Breath Foundation grants crucial funding to grassroots organizations that align with our mission—all without the challenges and barriers of traditional philanthropy.
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‘Ekolu Mea Nui
'Ekolu Mea Nui works to transform Hawai’i’s justice system through Native Hawaiian cultural practices and values that innovate alternatives to incarceration, restore the human spirit, build resilient ʻohana (families), and change inequitable laws and policies.
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‘Anamatangi Polynesian Voices
‘Anamatangi Polynesian Voices (‘APV) is a California grassroots organization elevating communities impacted by systemic injustice through heritage preservation and civic engagement.
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AAPI Women Lead
AAPI Women Lead and #ImReady Movement strengthen the progressive political and social platforms of Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the U.S. through the leadership of API women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals. They help end the intersections of violence against and within AAPI communities by working in solidary with other communities of color.
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APEN
APEN brings together a collective voice to develop an alternative agenda for environmental, social, and economic justice.
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API RISE
API RISE seeks to empower the Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander American communities—specifically individuals impacted by the criminal justice system.
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Arab Resource & Organizing Center
Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) serves poor and working-class Arabs and Muslims across the San Francisco Bay Area while organizing to overturn racism, forced migration, and militarism. Recognizing the diversity of experiences within their community, AROC utilizes a multi-pronged strategy, providing a centralized space for social services meeting material needs, developing analysis, creating strategy, and leading grassroots campaigns for systemic changes that make tangible impacts in the lives of working-class SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) communities.
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Arizona AANHPI for Equity
Arizona Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander for Equity (AZ AANHPI for Equity) is a state-wide organization striving for equity and justice by building power through community-directed organizing, increasing civic engagement, and empowering young leaders. We envision an Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community that is working together to shape its future as a part…
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Asian American Resource Workshop
The Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) is a political home for pan-Asian communities in Greater Boston. They are a member-led organization committed to building grassroots power through political education, creative expression, and issue-based and neighborhood organizing.
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta
Since 2014, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta protects the civil rights of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities in Georgia and the Southeast.
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Asian Health Services
Asian Health Services provides health, social, and advocacy services for all people regardless of income, insurance status, immigration status, language, or culture.
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Asian Prisoner Support Committee
Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC)directly supports Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and raises awareness of the growing number of APIs imprisoned, detained, and deported from the U.S. APSC facilitates Ethnic Studies programs in prisons, provides community-based reentry services, and organizes deportation defense campaigns.
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Asian Refugees United
Asian Refugees United (ARU) is an art and healing leadership center. Our mission is to cultivate and restore wholeness in communities impacted by displacement through embodied training programs, collective power-building, ancestral practices, and connection to land.
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Asian Solidarity Collective
Asian Solidarity Collective uplifts social justice consciousness for Asian Americans, condemns anti-Blackness, and builds solidarity with Black, Brown, and Indigenous folks through political education, community building, and collective action.
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AYPAL
AYPAL organizes communities and builds coalitions that empower Oakland’s low-income Asian & Pacific Islander immigrant and refugee families to become leaders for school reform and neighborhood change.
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CCWP (CA Coalition for Women Prisoners)
CCWP is a grassroots abolitionist organization—with members inside and outside prison—that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex.
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Central Law Group
Central Law Group, PLLC of Charlotte, North Carolina is dedicated to providing legal representation to individuals, families, and small business owners in the areas of immigration, family, criminal, personal injury, and civil law.
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Chinese Progressive Association
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.
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Community Youth Center (CYC)
Community Youth Center of San Francisco encourages a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life.
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Elite Financial Team
Elite Financial Team is a non-profit organization built and supported by Pacific Islanders. They are dedicated to using their experience in the Financial Industry to help as many people as possible through workshops, conferences, and one-on-one sessions. They help bring the education of managing finances, protecting assets, tax-efficient strategies, and investing money in multiple ways. It all begins with the right mindset, which is why mental health and wellness education is a part of their core pillars.
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EMAC
Empowering Marginalized Asian Communities (EMAC) serves and supports marginalized Southeast Asians by empowering their communities through advocacy and healing from present and past disparities to build an equitable and robust future.
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F.I.G.H.T. (Formerly Incarcerated Group Healing Together)
F.I.G.H.T (Formerly Incarcerated Group Healing Together) is a Washington-based community service organization dedicated to assisting, advising and counseling Asian & Pacific Islander (API) descent men and women who are currently incarcerated or have been released.
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F.O.U. Movement
The F.O.U. Movement works to achieve and reintegrate Pacific Islander former prisoners into the community, reduce recidivism, and improve public safety by addressing the needs of returnees and providing support and connection through community.
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Freedom, Inc.
Freedom, Inc. engages low- to no-income communities of color in Dane County, WI. They work to achieve social justice through coupling direct services with leadership development and community organizing.
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Going Home Hawai’i
Going Home Hawai'i (GHH) is the name given to efforts on the Big Island to reintegrate justice-involved individuals into the community and the workforce.
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Grassroots Asians Rising
Grassroots Asians Rising (GAR) is a national network of grassroots organizations rooted in Asian and Pacific Islander communities. They assist communities that live in the most precarious margins of power: refugees, low-wage workers, youth, undocumented immigrants, queer and trans people, and low-income tenants.
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Hawai’i People’s Fund
Hawai’i People’s Fund is a unique partnership of activists and donors who share a vision of equity and justice. They are dedicated to the most creative, passionate, and radical visions of community, bravely navigating the intersections of the many crucial issues this community faces.
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Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
The Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (IM4HI) mobilizes congregations to take a stand on issues of social justice and engages people of faith to develop their own leadership so they can combat racism and discrimination and address the most pressing political challenges at present.
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Khmer Anti-Deportation Advocacy Group
The Khmer Anti-deportation and Advocacy Group (KhAAG) is dedicated to advancing the rights and welfare of all refugee and immigrant communities by offering support, assistance, and guidance in navigating the immigration system in the United States. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive community that advocates for fair policies and empowers individuals from all…
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Khmer Girls in Action
Khmer Girls in Action strives to build a progressive and sustainable Long Beach community that works for racial, gender, and economic justice led by Southeast Asian women and youth.
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Khmer Vulnerability Aid Organization (KVAO)
KVAO assists Cambodian citizens being deported back to Cambodia with establishing stable, constructive, and independent lives in Cambodia.
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Korean American Family Services
Korean American Family Services (KFAM) offers hope and help for immigrant families devastated by economic hardships, immigration stress, and family strife.
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Lavender Phoenix
Lavender Phoenix builds queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander (QTAPI) power to amplify their voices and increase the visibility of their communities.
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ManForward
ManForward is mobilizing a national network of Southeast Asian men and masculine folks to transform patriarchal power systems through direct action organizing, education, and collective healing. ManForward provides programming that includes political education, leadership development and training, and hosting healing spaces.
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Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP) Seattle
Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP) is a grassroots formation of Asian/Asian American community members organizing to provide support for migrant Asian massage parlor workers, sex workers, and care workers in the Seattle Chinatown/International District and greater Seattle area. They build worker power through organizing and leadership development.
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MN8
MN8 directly supports Southeast Asian families impacted by detention and deportation through community organizing and leadership development to bring about social and political change.
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New Light Wellness
The Center for Empowering Refugees & Immigrants (CERI) is committed to improving the social, emotional, psychological, economic, and physical health of refugees and immigrants from Southeast Asia affected by war, torture, genocide, or other forms of extreme trauma.
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Oakland Pacific Islander Network
Oakland Pacific Islander Network (OPIN) is a grassroots organization that cultivates and equips the Pasifika community to operate as exceptional leaders in their communities by providing leadership development programs, hosting community events, and partnering with local organizations in order to provide resources.
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Ohana Hoʻopakele
Ohana Ho`opakele means “a family that restores.” Their mission is to heal the afflicted and the afflicter, heal the damage of the crime, reintegrate the defender into the community, and restore wholeness to the communities. Ohana Ho’opakele aims to save tax and reduce recidivism, develop preventative programs to eliminate the causes of crime, stop the…
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Pasifika Urban Roots
Pasifika Urban Roots (PUR) acknowledges the First Peoples of San Francisco, the Ramaytush Ohlone, as the original and continuing stewards of this land. As settlers on stolen land, we stand in solidarity against institutions and systems that oppress Indigenous peoples. Like the rose that grows through the concrete, the tenacious taro plant can transcend cracks…
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Project-Respectt, Inc.
Project Respectt, Inc. is an educational center and legal clinic focused on violence prevention, legal support, and economic access.
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PrYSM
PrYSM organizes at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation by centering youth, female, queer, and people of color leadership in our campaigns, our organization, and our communities. PrYSM mobilizes queer Southeast Asian youth, families, and allies to build grassroots power and organize collectively for social justice. SUON Vigil. Photo: PrYSM
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Rafiki Coalition
Rafiki Coalition aims to eliminate health inequities in San Francisco’s Black and marginalized communities through education, advocacy, and by providing holistic health and wellness services in a culturally affirming environment.
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Red Canary Song
Red Canary Song (RCS) is a grassroots massage worker coalition in the U.S. that supports the community of migrant sex workers with no political representation or access to labor rights or collective organizing.
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SEAC Village
SEAC Village is a grassroots-led social justice organization serving Southeast Asian and Black communities in North Carolina. They work to address the root causes of oppression and violence, and form the foundation on which to build an enduring, intersectional justice movement.
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SEAFN
Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN) is a national network that mobilizes Southeast Asian communities towards abolition, defends communities from deportation, and moves collective work out of isolation.
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South Asians for Black Lives
Solidarity in Struggle: South Asians for Black Lives aims to dismantle anti-Blackness and Indophobia and calls on communities to join the racial solidarity movement.
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Survived & Punished
Survived & Punished is a survivor-centered, feminists of color organization working to free and support incarcerated survivors. The organization centers the interplay between surviving gender violence and being subjected to the violence of arrest, imprisonment, and/or deportation.
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The Vincent Chin Institute
The Vincent Chin Institute was founded in 2023 to continue the mission and work of the past 40 years of movement and coalition building against anti-Asian hate.
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Transforming Generations
Transforming Generations aims to organize, educate, and transform cultural and power dynamics to end gender-based violence
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Trybe
Trybe is a community-based nonprofit rooted in East Oakland that strengthens households by focusing on the stable, sustainable resources needed to transform youth and families.
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Tsuru for Solidarity
Tsuru for Solidarity is a nonviolent, direct-action project of Japanese-American social justice advocates working to end detention sites and support front-line immigrant and refugee communities targeted by racist, inhumane immigration policies.
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UnCommon Law
UnCommon Law supports people navigating California's discretionary parole process through trauma-informed legal representation, mental health counseling, legislative and policy advocacy, and in-prison programming led by those who have been through the process themselves.
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United Playaz
United Playaz is a San Francisco-based violence prevention and youth development organization. They provide a comprehensive range of services to prepare vulnerable youth for higher education, employment, and healthy living within a safe, nurturing, and collaborative environment.
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Urban Peace Movement
Urban Peace Movement (UPM) builds youth leadership in Oakland to transform the culture and social conditions that lead to community violence and mass incarceration in communities of color.
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VAYLA
VAYLA incubates AAPI leaders in New Orleans and beyond so that they can help shape a more just future. They focus on environmental justice, reproductive justice, and civic engagement initiatives. The organization engenders leadership to address social inequities facing their community while anchored in an anti-racist, Queer, feminist lens.
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VietLead
VietLead creates a vision and strategy for community self-determination, social justice, and cultural resilience through intergenerational programs and community defense, focusing on a pathway to healing trauma in Southeast Asian communities.
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VietRISE
VietRISE advances social justice and builds power with working-class Vietnamese and immigrant communities in Orange County, California. They build leadership and create systemic change through organizing, narrative change, cultural empowerment, and civic engagement.
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Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Fund
Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Fund’s mission is to carry on Yuri’s legacy through strengthening BIPOC solidarity, building community through art and activism, and providing learning resources for young people to promote anti-racism and teaching about the history and shared experiences of oppression and resistance by people of color as well as examples of successful multicultural community-building efforts in the United States.
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