San Mateo County has achieved the highest census self-response rate in California by working with local organizations that know their communities intimately and by targeting messages to them. Those efforts by trusted, countywide, “on-the-ground” messengers were funded...
Thousands of South Asian students at US universities will be forced to return home if their schools and programs go fully online for the fall semester due to COVID-19. In a statement released yesterday (July 6), the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)...
Tasveer Film Fund is the first of its kind grant dedicated to South Asian storytellers in the U.S. creating short films – submissions accepted through July 31, 2020 Tasveer, the non-profit that operates the Tasveer South Asian Film Festival (TSAFF), the largest...
DingDing TV (Silicon Valley Innovation Channel and Voice of Asian Americans) and CLUSA, together with 16 of our partners, launched a Video Essay Contest on May 11, 2020. The theme of the contest was for the participants to tell the most compelling “Humanistic...
School lunch programs, which fed nearly half of American’s schoolchildren before the Coronavirus, have turned into a lifeline for families hit by unemployment and rising food prices during the pandemic. Many of those programs are now going broke, and their very...
South Asians who are ‘foreign-born’, on H1B visas, refugees or even asylum seekers can still participate in Census2020! Find out how. #SouthAsian #immigrant #2020Census #BayAreaCounts2020 #CompleteCount #MeeraKymal 1. Are South Asians included on the...
