Thank You Backers for Donating – The Indiegogo Evaluation

In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021, Indiegogo is donating $17,000 from Suggestions for Indiegogo to the Asian People Advancing Justice – Asian Legislation Caucus. Final 12 months, Indiegogo made a dedication to contribute to significant causes utilizing funds raised by means of suggestions, and that is the most recent in a sequence of donations made doable by backers such as you.

We’d wish to thank our group for serving to us make a distinction. Suggestions for Indiegogo is a characteristic we launched final 12 months that enables backers so as to add a small extra donation to their marketing campaign contributions. Indiegogo then provides a portion of backer tricks to the causes that matter most to the Indiegogo group. Our donation to Advancing Justice – ALC permits us to meet our ongoing promise to make use of funds raised from tricks to make a optimistic impression. 

Honoring AAPI Heritage Month

AAPI Heritage Month is noticed yearly each Could. It’s a month throughout which we pay tribute to the generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders who’ve enriched America’s historical past. AAPI Heritage Month is an ideal time to find out about completely different Asian and Pacific Island cultures, have fun the contributions AAPI teams have made to American society and tradition, and mirror on the marginalizations they proceed to face.

That is an particularly urgent time to be working in opposition to AAPI discrimination and uplifting AAPI voices. Hate crimes and racist assaults in opposition to Asians and Pacific Islanders have been on the rise over the past 12 months, with senior residents specifically being violently focused. Indiegogo condemns bigotry, hatred, and racism in all varieties. We stand in solidarity with the AAPI group. 

Defending the rights of low-income AAPI communities

That’s why we’re proud to assist Advancing Justice – ALC with a $17,000 donation this month. Our contribution will go in the direction of serving to low-income AAPI communities obtain justice in housing disputes, immigration points, civil rights violations, and extra. It comes on the heels of our current donation to Cease AAPI Hate, a company that works to deliver justice and lift consciousness of the various points going through the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

Asian People Advancing Justice – Asian Legislation Caucus is the nation’s first authorized and civil rights group serving the low-income Asian Pacific American communities. Their mission is to advertise, advance, and symbolize the authorized and civil rights of Asians and Pacific Islanders within the US. The overwhelming majority of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America are immigrants and refugees, and Advancing Justice – ALC helps shield their rights. The group additionally helps to set nationwide insurance policies in affirmative motion, voting rights, Census, and language rights. 

Getting concerned and subsequent steps

Indiegogo just isn’t stopping right here. All year long, we might be choosing and vetting extra causes to fund and can proceed to assist initiatives which are essential to Indiegogo backers. Keep tuned for extra data! 

In search of a technique to assist the AAPI group and elevate AAPI voices? Try this assortment of campaigns from AAPI entrepreneurs and creators.

You may as well comply with alongside on Indiegogo’s Instagram this month, the place we’re teaming up with the staff behind Blended Asian Media (MAM) on a weekly Instagram storytelling sequence. MAM is at present elevating funds for his or her movie pageant and journal.

Discover MAM and all the opposite superb AAPI-owned campaigns on Indiegogo at this time!