Focus Areas

Community Stewardship

From convening dialogic spaces to collaborative projects: we strive to be a facilitator and connective tissue between and across community, beyond theoretical and digital solidarities. 

  • The Co-Share Collective began in 2023 with the coming together of the following organizations: Hogan’s Alley Society, hua foundation, UBC ACRE, and Chinatown Celebration Society.

  • Our anti-racism + solidarities resource collection is an educational resource that helps engage a wide variety of those interested in topics of anti-racism and solidarity building across communities, especially including those who may not have previously had access to these kinds of learnings.

  • Choi means “vegetables” in Cantonese, but it means so much more to us. The Choi Project was a signature project of hua foundation from 2013 to 2018, and now continues through ongoing programming like our community supported agriculture program, resource guides, and occasional cooking workshops.

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Capacity Building

When we provide racialized youth with spaces in which they feel safe, affirmed, and empowered, we create the conditions necessary for truly radical and imaginative systemic change.

  • Racialized people who bear the burden of witnessing, experiencing, and speaking about their individual experiences with racism and white supremacy are exhausted. While avenues to address and learn about racism are becoming more abundant, an often overlooked aspect of an equitable and anti-racist future is the ability for racialized people to access spaces of healing.

  • ACAM 400 – Asian Canadian Research and Engagement is a studio course, co-developed and co-led by Dr. JP Catungal (Assistant Professor Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; Co-Director Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement) and christina lee 李嘉明 (director of community capacity + strategic initiatives @ hua foundation). 

  • In 2027, hua foundation will be launching an 18-month cohort learning studio in partnership with the Law Foundation of BC to support Indigenous, Black and racialized-led organizations to build their capacity to better understand systems change and policy/law reform work on issues that matter to their communities.

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Policy &
Advocacy

We create opportunities for collaboration, bridging relationships between community and institution towards shared equity goals.

  • The Language Access Project (LAP) addresses the growing need for cultural competency and language accessibility from all levels of government and public institutions, by sharing knowledge and creating space to build long-term relationships between community experts and institutional staff.

  • With a rapidly changing small business and food landscape in Vancouver’s Chinatown, the Vancouver Chinatown Social Cohesion Report measures the social cohesion between new and traditional businesses and their networks.

  • The Vancouver Chinatown Food Security Report documents the loss of food retailers in Chinatown between 2009 to 2016 and demonstrates that cultural food assets are being lost at an alarmingly rapid rate.

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Special
Projects

Beyond our core work, we hold space and capacity to respond to community needs, to build, and to dream. 

  • The Asian Community Convener Project focuses on establishing a baseline understanding of where and how anti-racism work is being advanced by Asian community organizations in the province of British Columbia.

  • In March 2020, due to increasing concerns around the potential for community transmission of COVID-19 and rapid changing food access in the neighbourhood (grocery stores and restaurants closing or operating with limited hours due to the pandemic), the Chinatown Cares project was developed as an emergency response program to ensure access to affordable, fresh, culturally appropriate groceries for isolated Chinese-speaking seniors. 

  • In the fall of 2018, a group of young people from across the Asian diaspora came together to explore how to create culturally-relevant campaign resources for our community. The final product is a collection of culturally-relevant educational resources to educate community members about the benefits of electoral reform. 

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