National CAPACD has released To Lift All Boats: A Storytelling Evaluation of the Community Resilience Fund, 2022-23. Following the arc of a story, this report examines and highlights the practices and work of 21 grantee organizations in an executive summary and four related reports.
- Executive Summary
- Report #1: Origin Stories (Why?) – What compels these grantee organizations to take on this work? What values or principles guide their work?
- Report #2: Liberatory Practices and Innovations (How?) – What strategies have Community Resilience Fund grantees used to advance cross-racial solidarity, allyship, and healing? How did they prepare their organizations and communities to engage in this work? How much have they adapted to evolving external conditions?
- Report #3: Stories of Transformation (So what?) – What progress have Community Resilience Fund grantees seen on individual, organizational, and community levels?
- Report #4: Looking Forward (What’s next?) – What does the “next level” of this work look like? What are the upcoming opportunities, and what do they need to meet this moment?
Examples include the work of APANO (Portland, OR), which prioritized operationalizing BIPOC solidarity through internal staff political education work, support to Black-led organizations, and intentional coalition building; Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (CBCAC) (Chicago, IL), which implemented a racial justice program for Chinese-speaking immigrant parents and elders; and CAAAV (New York, NY), which built a multiracial and intergenerational tenant coalition for the Two Bridges Community Plan.
These reports, which contain case studies and a glossary, weave together the practices of these diverse Community Resilience Fund grantees with their stories of commitment, challenges, victories, lessons, and new aspirations. These efforts illustrate the unique role AA and NHPI communities play in strengthening multiracial solidarity and point to possible new directions that we can work collectively on.
“There’s been a huge battle for hearts and minds. There seems to be a confluence of right and ripe conditions… There’s a depth of organizers and a depth of organizations that have been in the work at a certain maturity level, that have tried certain strategies for a certain amount of time that it’s working. We are at a moment where we can make great strides forward, if we seize the moment.” – Nancy Nguyen, VietLead