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ACAN partners with ATXHospitalMeals in support of health workers and local restaurants

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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.

Austin Chinese-American Network partners with volunteers to donate meals to homeless during pandemic – on KVUE News

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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,”…

ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort April 1, 2020

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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…

ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 29, 2020

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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…

ACAN In Action – COVID-19 Relief Effort March 25, 2020

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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…

ACAN In Action – Covid-19 Relief Effort March 20, 2020

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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…

PRESS RELEASE: 2019-nCoV and ACCF2020

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By now, we are sure everyone is very much tuned in to the public health emergency that is engulfing China, and to a lesser degree, yet increasingly, the rest of the world. In the past couple of weeks, we have witnessed with a heavy heart a huge swath of Central China locked down, impacting tens of millions of people during what is traditionally the most festive and most intimate time of the year. From a distance of thousands of miles, we can still acutely feel the worries, the pains, and the desperations of our families, friends, and fellow countrymen across the ocean.

ACAN Member Holiday Fundraising Drive ACAN会员年终筹款活动

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Dear ACAN members, It is that time of the year, finally, after a long and brutal Texas summer that I thought was going to go on forever. Roast turkey and pumpkin pie, jingle bells and mistletoes – yes indeed, it’ll soon be the holiday season once again. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of…

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ACAN families enjoyed camping workshop at Inks Lake State Park

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[Noah Liu] Austin Chinese-American Network partnered with Texas Outdoor Family, a program under Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to host a private camping workshop for members on 9/7-8 at Inks Lake State Park. Our 18 participating families learned important camping and outdoor skills such as setting up a campsite, building a fire, and cooking outdoors. Participants also had the chance to go kayaking, hiking, fishing, stargazing and geocaching within the park. Our families all enjoyed the event greatly, especially the children! We hope that we can organize a similar event sometime in the future.

Community Presence

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ACAN member CJ’s (a.k.a. Earthworm) presence in our community is bigger than life! She is a person with one of the biggest heart  (for people in need) that I know of. With an incredible amount of energy, she marches on and, along the way, gathers a big crowd with her to serve the community. Here…