April 2020 Treasure Report
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ACAN Youth Concert Benefiting Central Texas Food Bank
Austin Chinese-American Network is sponsoring an online youth show to demonstrate unity, strength, and kindness of the community to raise fund for Central Texas Food Bank, a local non-profit organization hundreds of ACAN volunteers regularly volunteer in the past few years.
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ACAN Youth Gone Prime Time – CBS Austin News
ACAN Youth Director Ed Wu and Youth Leader Victor Yu were interviewed by CBS Austin about ACAN’s face shield project using 3D printers: Local students keeping Austin healthcare workers protected in fight against COVID-19
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ACAN Receiving Grants From AllTogetherATX Fund
[April 22, 2020] ACAN is proud to announce being selected as one of the 1st round organizations receiving grants from AllTogetherATX fund, a Covid19 relief fund jointly sponsored by United Way for Greater Austin and Austin Community Foundation, and funded by generous donations from individuals, organizations and corporations, such as National Instruments.
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ACAN partners with ATXHospitalMeals in support of health workers and local restaurants
AUSTIN, Texas, April 16, 2020 — ATXHospitalMeals, the Austin-based grassroots organization mobilizing to feed healthcare workers through donations that go directly to support local restaurants, announced today a partnership with the Austin Chinese-American Network (ACAN), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a core mission to “serve our community and foster our heritage.” This collaboration will allow both organizations to augment and expand their respective charitable programs and enable ATXHospitalMeals to accept tax-exempt donations and company matches. Austin construction manager company Flintco is the first corporate giving partner matching dollar-for-dollar donations given through May 1 up to $15,000.
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战胜饥饿，战胜病毒 – 华盟在行动
[撰稿和图片提供： 华盟义工] 奥斯汀华裔联盟 (ACAN) 在疫情严重的时候, 看到了社区弱势群体的需要。很多平时由各公益组织帮助的弱势群体, 由于疫情对社区的影响, 而缺少了一些最基本的物资 － 每日果腹的餐食。据 EMS and Camp Abbot 的义工们说，那里的几百个无家可归者, 平时大部分时候只能吃军队用的压缩食品。那些市民在疫情期间没有可以避难的地方，如果没有人给予他们食物，他们就会在我们后院里饿死，使本就严峻的形势更加悲剧。他们是我们的弟兄姐妹，我们不能置之不顾。华盟决定挑起这个重担，服务社区，从提供一顿顿饭做起！
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Austin Chinese-American Network partners with volunteers to donate meals to homeless during pandemic – on KVUE News
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Chinese-American Network (ACAN) Vice President Hugh Li said the organization has donated about 1,500 meals to homeless communities in the past two weeks. “Food is a huge part of our culture and it is also a way for us to show our love and our care to people around us – friends, neighbors,”…
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ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort April 1, 2020
Serious Work on April Fool’s Day Today we set out to help LifeWorks Austin whose young residents are experiencing medical, emotional and economic vulnerability as a result of #Covid-19. 3 ACAN volunteers, partnering with a local Chinese restaurant House of Three Gorges (http://www.houseofthreegorgestx.com/, 三峡人家), delivered 40 freshly made Chicken Fried Rice meals and >40 homemade…
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ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 29, 2020
Defeat the Hunger, Defeat the Virus Camp Abbott, by 183 and Montopolis, is now a small tent city on a 5-acre tract housing about 200 homeless people. Managed by Texas Department of Public Safety and ATX HELPS, people here are experiencing significantly more hardships due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The coronavirus has not only brought…
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ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 27, 2020
ACAN and 优品教育(Premier Education Partners, www.premier-edu.com ) COVID-19 Relief team calls for the Austin community to join us at Miles for Lives! Jog-a-Thon ACAN has been organizing many Covid-19 relief efforts.
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ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 26, 2020
We are all in this together 💕💕 After making 320 homemade meals for downtown shelters on Tuesday, today we took on a smaller but as critical a job: delivering meals to Youth experiencing homeless LifeWorks Austin ❤️. We thought the youth might like pizzas & hot dogs better: so that was what we did. But…
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ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 25, 2020
KIND AND GENEROUS – Part II Covid-19 is hitting all of us really hard, but it is hitting the underprivileged groups in Austin Metro many times worse. Providing daily meals to the homeless shelters housing >2000 people throughout the City has become an urgent need. Answering desperate calls from agencies and community groups, ACAN and…
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ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 22, 2020
In this worst of times of Covid-19 pandemic, what exactly are “our capacities to be kind and generous, and to see beyond ourselves and our own interests”- Lawrence S. Bacow? ACAN’s answer: a lot.
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ACAN In Action – Covid-19 Relief Effort March 20, 2020
Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow offered these words to his students as they vacated campus last week: “…COVID-19 will test our capacities to be kind and generous, and to see beyond ourselves and our own interests, … May we all proceed with wisdom and grace.” Those are powerful words, and here is an example of…
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