Resources for AAPI Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19

National CAPACD’s compilation of resources to share creative ideas and useful information for how to support AAPI entrepreneurs at this time.
COVID-19 Response: AAPI Small Businesses Jun 24, 2020

Resources for AAPI Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19

Welcome to National CAPACD's "Resources for AAPI Small Businesses" database.

This "database" captures our efforts to share best practices, creative ideas, and useful information for how to support AAPI entrepreneurs at this time.

If you have information you would like to add to this spreadsheet, or have ideas for future webinars or resources National CAPACD can develop in support of AAPI small businesses at this time, please email roy@nationalcapacd.org. 

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has reopened the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) through March 31st, with the intention of allowing the hardest-hit small businesses and nonprofits to apply for a 1st or 2nd Draw PPP loan. Self Help Credit Union has provided a helpful FAQ and guidance on how to calculate revenue reduction/ maximum loan amount when applying for both 1st Draw or 2nd Draw PPP loans. Also, the National Development Council has provided a helpful recorded webinar explaining PPP updates and requirements.

As many of you have reported, AAPI entrepreneurs across the country experienced significant challenges with the PPP loan process last year. According to a recent study by Small Business Majority, only a fraction of AAPI entrepreneurs applied for/received a PPP loan in 2020. Through collective advocacy efforts last year, improvements have been made in the new PPP that include a $15 billion set-aside for CDFIs, although significant barriers still persist for entrepreneurs who are LEP or un/underbanked. In the coming weeks, we'd love to hear from you about PPP experiences in your community. Please feel free to reach out to Roy Chan (roy@nationalcapacd.org), our new Small Business Senior Program Manager, and check our COVID-19 resource page for updated information.

Stimulus Funding - AAPI Specific Outreach
Stimulus Funding - General Info
Small Business Resource Guides
Rapid Response Campaigns/Emergency Relief
  • Good Good Eatz
    Social media campaign focused on promoting Oakland Chinatown businesses. On Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
    Chinatown Improvement - Oakland, CA
  • Chinatown Eats
    Campaign focused on promoting SF Chinatown businesses
    Rose Pak Democratic Club - San Francisco, CA
  • SF New Deal
    Restaurants are paired with delivery sites to bring food to those in need, local employees kept working
    Chinatown CDC partnering with SF New Deal - San Francisco, CA
  • SaveOurChinatowns
    Artist led go-fund-me campaign to support Chinatowns
    Artist, Chinatown CDC, Chinatown Improvement - Oakland/San Francisco, CA
  • Meals for Elmhurst Hospital Staff
    Campaign to support local businesses while also feeding frontline medical workers
    Chhaya CDC working with grassroots organizers - Elmhurst, NY
  • Support the ID - Community United
    Informal grassroots effort via Facebook group to promote and support businesses
    Grassroots - Seattle, WA

Support the ID and Healthcare Workers
Campaign to support local businesses while also feeding frontline medical workers
Grassroots - Seattle, WA

#FilipinosFeedTheFrontlines
Campaign to support local businesses while also feeding frontline medical workers
KultivateLabs with SOMA Pilipinas - San Francisco, CA

  • Little Tokyo Eats
    Delivering meals from local businesses to seniors in Little Tokyo and Downtown LA
    Little Tokyo Service Center - Los Angeles, CA

Support Little Tokyo
Online consumer-facing resource on what businesses are still open
Little Tokyo Service Center - Los Angeles, CA

Community Feeding Community
Campaign to support local businesses while also feeding frontline medical workers
Little Tokyo Service Center - Los Angeles, CA

  • Pop-Up Makeke
    Campaign to support Native Hawaiian businesses and artisans that are impacted by closures of farmers markets, etc.
    Hawaii
    Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement - Hawaii
  • (BELOW: Emergency Relief Funds for SB examples)

Emergency Small Business Relief Fund
Emergency loans of up to $50K - information available in English, Chinese, Korean, Spanish
Renaissance Economic Development Corp. - New York, NY

How to Set Up an Emergency Small Business Relief Fund
Webinar on 5/4 - access to presentation materials and handouts
Renaissance Economic Development Corp. - New York, NY

CID Restaurants and Other Small Businesses Relief Fund
Grants of $1,500 to businesses; criteria listed in link - Seattle Specific
SCIDpda and FLS - Seattle, WA

Jade District-Old Town COVID-19 Small Business Response Fund
$190K in grants awarded to 31 businesses impacted by COVID-19
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon - Portland, OR

Other SB Support Opportunities

Tips on Finding Funding During COVID-19, Avoiding Predatory Lending (Translated Factsheets)

National CAPACD translated the fact sheet "Tips on Finding Funding During COVID-19: Avoiding Predatory Lending" in partnership with Small Business Majority, supported by Kauffman Foundation.