Local Fresno Organizations
Finding a community can help provide a safe place, comfort, and bring a sense of belongingness for individuals which can help improve your mental health! Listed below are various organizations located in Fresno that help serve and advocate for AAPI communities and those alike.
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A Hopeful Encounter
"Partnering with our communities to galvanize and develop confident and thriving Southeast Asian youths to become global change agents through Health, Education, Agriculture, Recreation and Technology"

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Asian Business Institute & Resource Center
"Support and promote Asian American business owners in the Central California region by providing community resources on business development and sustained success."

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Central California Asian Pacific Women (CCAPW)
"Central California Pacific Women prepares and empowers Asian and Pacific Island women from the Central Valley to advocate for gender and social justice by supporting and providing leadership and mentoring opportunities in the Central Valley and beyond."

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Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP)
Located in Sacramento and Fresno
"Hmong Innovating Politics is a grassroots organization whose mission is to strengthen the political power of Hmong and disenfranchised communities through innovating civic engagement and strategic grassroots mobilizations. We envision a California of empowered communities that thrive in a socially and economically just democracy"
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Fresno Jakara Movement
"The Jakara Movement is a grassroots community-building organization working to empower, educate, and organize working-class Punjabi Sikhs, and other marginalized communities; to advance their health, education, and arts/cultural, economic, social, and community power. We strive to create a Gurmat-inspired community, rooted in the struggle of our foremothers and forefathers, committed to gender equality and caste abolitionism to develop powerful, informed, and organized youth leadership, locally-rooted residential power, and community capacity that will be a key partner in building a better future for all."
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Laotion American Community of Fresno (LACF)
"Our mission is to empower the community and support families to achieve educational and socioeconomic success through leadership development, mentorship, and cultural preservation."
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Stone Soup Fresno
https://sites.google.com/stonesoupfresno.org/stonesoupfresno/home?authuser=0
"To inspire children and nurture families to realize their full potential in America"
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The Fresno Center
"The Fresno Center has a multi-cultural focus and works to provide an array of culture-based services that support self-sufficiency, economic viability, and empowerment across all communities. Services have expanded to include various social support programs, mental health, navigator services, food security, emergency response, and COVID-19 education and supports for all communities in need…We are staffed with diverse Cultural Brokers and staff who speak Spanish, Hmong, Lao, Khmer, Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic and English. "
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Fresno Interdeominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM)
"FIRM is a faith-based non-profit that serves the needs of over 10,000 refugees in the Fresno area of the California San Joaquin Valley, primarily refugees of Southeast Asian, Slavic, and African origin. In 2017, we served refugees from 22 different countries. We serve them through holistic neighborhood/youth outreach and enrichment programs, citizenship, advocacy, community gardens, health navigation and policy work, culturally appropriate community organizing, an after-school program and much more."
AAPI Fresno State Clubs
Fresno EOC LGBTQ+ Resource Center
"LGBTQ+ Resource Center provides supportive services to enhance the health and well being of individuals of all ages in the LGBTQ+ community. Serving all individuals in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, queer, HIV, and questioning community members in the Fresno County area. "
Local LGBTQIA+ Organizations
Trans E Motion
"Trans-E-Motion is a volunteer-run nonprofit organization based in California’s Central Valley that honors and celebrates the lives of transgender and gender diverse persons, both past and present, to bring about social change for the benefit of the community through activities, outreach, and events that provide education, advocacy, and support to all. "
Queer Hmong Intersectional Pride
https://www.facebook.com/qhip.ca/
"Queer Hmong Intersectional Pride (QHIP) was founded in 2018 in partnership with Hmong Innovating Politics. Through love and the power of organizing, we are a community dedicated to supporting the intersectional identities of folxs who are Hmong and queer. "
Oasis Legal Services
https://www.oasislegalservices.org/
"Oasis provides quality, holistic and trauma-informed legal and social services to low-income LGBTQ+ community members. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with several program areas. "
Local LGBTQIA+ Organizations
LBGT Fresno
"The mission of LGBTQ Fresno is to enhance the well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and two spirit communities by providing activities, programs and services that create and support community; empower community members; provide essential resources; and embrace, promote and support our cultural diversity."
Fresno Spectrum Center
https://www.fresnospectrumcenter.org/
"A Community and Resource Center; providing connections to local resources and providing a safe space for meetings and activities. There are also charitable projects benefiting the community. "