Read It Forward Recap
In partnership with Immigrant Social Services (ISS), Welcome to Chinatown is increasing students’ access and ownership of books that reflect multicultural experiences, while supporting Chinatown small businesses.
Read on to learn more about Read It Forward.
Now Open: Welcome to Chinatown’s Accelerator
A good beverage program can increase gross margin by 75%, while beverages themselves usually sell at an 80% margin or above. In partnership with Lunar Hard Seltzer and With Warm Welcome, our Longevity Fund Small Business Accelerator hopes to test some of the potential opportunities that current Chinatown restaurants, bars, and cafés may have to help increase revenue and profitability.
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.