National CAPACD Member Briefs: Resilient AAPI Communities in the Time of COVID-19
How AAPI Community-Based Organizations Are Responding to the Pandemic
May 2021
In order to learn from our members about how they are better serving their communities and to better inform our own response to the pandemic in terms of our policy advocacy and programmatic support, we surveyed our members three times (in March, July, and December 2020) and held a number of virtual focus groups and an online “town hall” meeting. Over 60 CBOs participated in this process, with the majority providing multiple touch points over time, allowing us to have a sense of how the on-the-ground response to the pandemic has evolved.
Resulting from our engagement with our members, the three briefs are each organized around our members’ pandemic responses within a specific set of issues. In this series of briefs, we document the pandemic’s impact and our members’ on-the-ground response for the following issues: