The Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter (平权会多伦多分会) (CCNCTO) is requesting your support for our 2023 Fundraiser - IntergenerACTIONal Strength: Chinese Community-Making for Resilience (2023 筹款活动 - 跨代行动的力量：华人社群 - 造就韧性)
The Fuller Story:
To cherished community members, invested allies, and those we meet with open arms,
Right now, it’s a challenging time we live in.
At Chinese Canadian National Council (Toronto Chapter), it has been our guiding vision to champion and serve the urgent needs of our ever-growing community membership. In the difficult past few years we’ve all experienced, it’s clear that we need a strong sense of community more than ever.
After the pandemic began, we witnessed demands from CCNCTO community members increase fivefold in response to unmet service needs. Our membership has grown from 50-100 monthly members to over 500 members seeking support and access to resources.
We know the concerns of community members and caring allies, like you.
Within the critical findings of CCNCTO reports, we confronted the bracing impact of hate and racism rising throughout the height of COVID-19: anti-Asian racism is pervasive, emotionally and mentally distressing, and brought a sense of “无奈 Wu Nai” (hopelessness and helplessness).
Our CCNCTO community members identified these ongoing needs:
- Lack of resources to support those facing hate and racism;
- Lack of intergenerational connection; and
- Barriers to engaging in community-making spaces.
CCNCTO has significant history and experience in delivering anti-racism programming to East and Southeast Asian communities.
Our past events have been multilingual, intergenerational, and cross-racial. We have addressed key aspects of community-building, solidarity, empowerment, and capacity-building, geared towards youth, seniors, the larger pan-Asian community, and more.
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We know our goals wholeheartedly:
Since 2021, we have targeted our anti-racism programming towards building youth and senior capacity and solidarity. -
We’ve got the numbers to prove it:
We have successfully hosted over 50 intergenerational events with more than 1000 annual participants over the past two years. We held at least 18 of them in 2023 alone. -
We’re only just getting started:
Our extensive work to build up cross-racial community events to combat racism included promoting pan-Asian community solidarity. This work has ramped up since 2022.
We are calling on the community for help.
Since 2020, we have produced 5 reports, including 2 widely cited national COVID reports, documenting the needs of Asian community members and advocating for concrete policy changes. Despite increased demands, our funding for anti-racism capacity building has steadily decreased since 2021.
In 2024, we aim to devote our efforts towards:
- Facilitating intergenerational knowledge sharing;
- Passing on Chinese knowledge, traditions, and histories;
- Combating senior isolation and generational disengagement;
- Co-creating safe spaces for collaboration and relationship building; and
- Empowering youth leadership and advocacy.
This season, we are focused on strengthening our community connection. Our 2024 projects will encourage Asian youth and seniors to collaborate, learn from one another, and inspire further community engagement.
Key target actions:
- Centering dialogue between community members as they shape their ongoing support demands to service providers, governing bodies, and community organizations.
- Minimizing language barriers that often hinder conversations and community advocacy through translations, interpretations, and discussion moderation.
- Increasing event accessibility through public transport reimbursement and food, especially for new immigrants and low-income groups.
- Promoting safe educational space to explore cultural and self identity, discuss and validate their experiences, and build mental resilience in the face of adversity.
- Equipping community ambassadors of all ages with knowledge and tools to take collective action.
For our 2023 Fundraiser, “IntergenerACTIONal Strength: Chinese Community-Making for Resilience”, we hope to raise a powerful $10,000 in our campaign from November 20th, 2023 to January 15th, 2024.
All generous donations will directly go towards CCNCTO’s efforts towards empowering intergenerational connections for resilience against racism and adversity in 2024.
Thank you kindly for your support,
CCNCTO Team
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We are also happy to receive your donation by Paypal or cheque. Please make your cheque out to the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter and mail it to Unit 105 - 1911 Kennedy Road, Scarborough, ON, M1P 2L9
If you have any questions, please email us at info@ccnctoronto.ca
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Who are we?
While the first Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) was formed in 1980 in Ontario, CCNC Toronto Chapter (CCNCTO) has continued to combat injustice and center lived experience in our work with Chinese Canadians throughout the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). 40 years since our inception, CCNCTO continues to support those marginalized in our community.
CCNCTO and its members advocate for equity, social justice, inclusive civic participation, and work to build up our community’s capacity to engage in collective action for change.
The three pillars of our work include:
- Serving marginalized Chinese community members who face multiple barriers in accessing existing resources;
- Developing and delivering culturally and language accessible anti-racism community resources and workshops; and
- Engaging in policy advocacy to promote equity, anti-racism, and human rights.
The core value of our work lies in centring the needs of those most vulnerable, including those from low-income and working class, racialized, newcomer, senior, and youth backgrounds, in our program direction and policy advocacy work.
CCNCTO’s current work includes:
- Hosting anti-racism education sessions;
- Providing legal rights and health information sessions;
- Building up leadership capacities of active community members with lived experience;
- Creating sustainable partnerships to address unmet needs; and
- Developing policy suggestions through community-led research and data collection
Since the pandemic, CCNCTO has led the fight against anti-Asian racism, producing numerous national reports documenting the needs of Asian communities and advocating for concrete policy changes.
Why should I support a grassroots fundraiser?
This grassroots fundraising effort aims to empower Chinese youth and seniors who are often marginalized from decision-making and leadership in communities. CCNCTO is often restricted in our work by project-specific funding from federal and provincial sources. As a nonprofit, we are not revenue-generating, meaning we dedicate all of your donations back into our community. As CCNCTO grows and aims to support our community’s increasing needs, we also call upon our community to show up.
Your generous donation, whatever the amount, will directly support Chinese youth and seniors and intergenerational relationship building:
- $15 will cover the cost of hosting 1 community member at an intergenerational event with free food and transit subsidy
- $25 will support simple interpretation or translation of resources, which allow youth and seniors to communicate across language
- $50 will cover the cost of a community organizing meeting with intergenerational leaders to design, promote, and deliver a CCNCTO event
- $100 will cover an awareness campaign to amplify the stories of 3 more community members
- $200 will support marginalized CCNCTO parents, workers, and seniors by facilitating information and resource sharing regarding their various rights, such as immigration, labour, housing, and social assistance
- $350 will support an outreach session led by experienced community leaders to neighbourhoods where they can directly provide community resources or information to marginalized Chinese seniors and youth
- $500 will fund a multilingual intergenerational community event for Chinese seniors, workers, and youth
- $750 will facilitate a pan-Asian cross-community event to promote intersectional and intergenerational solidarity
- $1000 will support a training session for community leaders, equipping them with the necessary organizing and legal knowledge and tools to empower others
We are calling our community and allies to show up. By directly supporting initiatives that connect Chinese youth and seniors in the community and equip them with the capacities to create change, your donation will both acknowledge and sustain our community solidarity and empowerment efforts.
With love and solidarity,
CCNCTO Team
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Special thanks to Fundraiser Team: Winsome, Eleanor, Adam, Yi, Nikki!
