888 Dragon Boat Festival Fundraiser Campaign: June 12-14
We’re excited to launch our 888 Dragon Boat Festival fundraiser with Bao Tea House! We’re aiming to raise $16,000 for the Sik Faan Fund, which will help purchase 1,600 meals from local Chinatown businesses to distribute to low income, senior residents, food insecure neighbors, and essential workers.
Read on to learn more about the campaign.
Celebrating Pride 2021
This Pride, we’re celebrating the union of asianness and queerness — two characteristics that many have been made to feel like two separate identities.
Join us as we reclaim the meaning of 囍, or double happiness, through our stories.
Launching the next phase of our Longevity Fund: $1 million in small business grants
We are relaunching The Longevity Fund to continue recovery efforts and drive long-term sustainability through business recuperation and improvement.
Our goal remains the same – doing all that we can to say Chinatown will always be open for business. Welcome to Chinatown aims to distribute $1 million in grants to Manhattan Chinatown small businesses by the end of 2021. Read more to learn about the grant fund.
Chinatown: State of Neighborhood Small Businesses Survey
Welcome to Chinatown started the Longevity Fund to provide short-term relief to our neighborhood’s small businesses at a time of dire need. But it is also increasingly apparent to us that neighborhood small businesses need more than short-term aid.
Respondents to our Small Business Survey Program cited marketing, website creation and updates, and design as resources they’d be interested in. Read more about how these findings influenced our relaunch of the Longevity Fund.
Grace Young’s Support Chinatown Initiative
To aid struggling legacy Chinatown businesses and NYC neighbors, Grace is partnering with Welcome to Chinatown’s Sik Faan Fund to donate fresh, nutritious, and familiar meals for low income, food insecure, and at-risk senior residents in NYC. The hot meals will be purchased from local Chinatown businesses, including legacy restaurants like Hop Kee, Hop Lee, Wo Hop (upstairs and downstairs) and distributed among our community partners that serve our neighbors in need.