I wish you all a peaceful and joyous holiday season. Please consider donating to ACDC in your year-end giving plans. Our work to invest in the people and communities we call home would not be possible without the generous support of our donors, funders, and community partners.
ACDC will be closed from December 25 to January 1, so our staff can spend time with their loved ones and get restorative rest after another year of supporting the communities we serve.
Stay tuned for a Save the Date for our Annual Meeting in early 2024, where you'll hear highlights of our 2023 impacts. Please enjoy the updates in our last newsletter for the year!
Happy Holidays, Angie Liou Executive Director |
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Get a 50% tax rebate on any donation of $1,000 or more! Individuals, corporations, and nonprofits are all eligible; even non-Massachusetts residents can benefit from this tax rebate.
Community Investment Tax Credit (CITC) donations provide flexible funding for ACDC to sustain our programs and pilot new initiatives benefitting working-class and new immigrant communities.
Donations must be received by December 31 to be eligible. Click the button below to donate online - it's quick and easy to do! |
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 Rental Assistance Update 
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The Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT) program helps keep households in stable housing situations when facing eviction, foreclosure, loss of utilities, and other housing emergencies caused by loss of income, increase in expenses, or both. RAFT provides up to $7,000 per household to help preserve current housing or move to new housing. RAFT can cover utilities, moving costs, mortgage arrears, and overdue rent costs, as well as future rent in limited situations.
ACDC is still helping community members apply with RAFT applications! Starting January 2024, the new contact for the bilingual RAFT hotline will be Julia Zhu, ACDC's Building Blocks Manager, and Alice Huang, ACDC's Housing Counselor. Both Julia and Alice are fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.
Julia's Contact Info 781-851-4619 Julia.Zhu[at]asiancdc.org
Alice's Contact Info 857-449-7123 Alice.Huang[at]asiancdc.org |
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 Join us for a joint, virtual public meeting with our partners, the Community Builders and BPDA's Impact Advisory Group, to discuss the future of Parcel P-12C in Chinatown (290 Tremont Street).
 ACDC’s proposal with the Community Builders includes 132 new affordable housing units and an improved connection between Tremont and Washington Street.
 Community members and anyone interested in ACDC’s affordable housing efforts are encouraged to attend. Chinese interpretation will be available.
 Date & Tiime: Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 at 6 pm
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 Thank You to Our Toy Drive Donors 
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 Thank you to the community members who donated gifts to our Holiday Toy Drive, in collaboration with BioMed Realty and Tufts University School of Dentistry.
 Your generosity brought joy to 138 kids from low-income families in Chinatown!
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|  At ACDC, we invest in people and the places we call home. We strive to foster a sense of belonging for residents of all ages and believe that residents should be involved in decisions that impact them. Your support allows us to provide leadership development, youth programming, financial literacy education, and affordable housing to residents and community members.
As 2023 comes to a close, help us invest in our future by making a donation at asiancdc.org/donate. Gifts of all sizes make a difference. |
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 In the News
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"Within the last five, six years, this idea of the intimate connection between housing and health has become much more mainstream." |
| ACDC collaborator MyDzung Chu named one of Popular Science's The Brilliant 10, honoring outstanding early career researchers, and her Chinatown climate resilience project with ACDC and artist Ponnapa Prakkamakul is highlighted. |
| Highlights from ACDC's Hudson Street Stoop opening celebration. |
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As we head into the holiday season, on behalf of ACDC, we extend deep gratitude to our youth, residents, donors, sponsors, funders, volunteers, and community partners for your collaboration and support.
Please note that ACDC offices will be closed from December 25 through January 1 so that our staff can enjoy time with their loved ones.
Warmly, Angie Liou Executive Director |
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 Make a CITC donation on Giving Tuesday
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Get a 50% tax rebate on any donation of $1,000 or more! Individuals, corporations, and nonprofits are all eligible; even non-Massachusetts residents can benefit from this tax rebate.
Community Investment Tax Credit (CITC) donations provide flexible funding for ACDC to sustain our programs and pilot new initiatives benefitting working-class and new immigrant communities.
Donations must be received by December 31 to be eligible. |
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 Hudson Street Stoop Recap 
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 We want to thank everyone who attended ACDC’s Hudson Street Stoop Opening Celebration for Dancing Dragon. Dancing Dragon will be on exhibit at One Greenway Park (between 66 & 88 Hudson Street) through Fall 2025 - come by One Greenway Park and enjoy the swings while connecting with family, friends, neighbors, and community members! 
 Participants learned about the history of the Hudson Street Stoop (HSS) site and Parcel 24, made their own dragon puppet, contributed to the Dancing Dragon memory book, and met the installation artists.
 Thank you to Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy and Sifu Mai Du for the inspiring dragon dance, the special eye-dotting ritual at Dancing Dragon to bless the structure, and for sharing the meaningful traditions and cultural context of the dragon dance.
Thank you, Kwong Kow Chinese School's K-pop dancer group, for your energizing performances!  Thank you to Tea Do for generously donating hot tea to keep everyone warm. Last but not least, we’re appreciative of all of the volunteers who made this event possible, as well as City Council President Ed Flynn's support of the event.
 The event was in collaboration with Humans of Chinatown (photographed by Mel Taing), a portrait and audio series capturing the essence of "What makes Chinatown sacred?" as part of the Chinatown Cultural Plan.
 Thank you to our generous supporters: Healthy Places by Design and their partners John Hancock, AARP Massachusetts, UMass Boston, and the City of Boston Age Strong Commission; as well as Beyond Walls, the Beyer Blinder Belle Foundation, Boston Global Investors, Payette, Perkins+Will, Utile, and the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture.
We’d also like to thank our site partners Bozzuto @bozzuto, Maloney Properties, One Greenway, and Tufts University.
 Follow @asiancdc on Instagram for upcoming events at HSS!
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Toy Drive for Chinatown Families |
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Each gift donated will go to a child from a low-income household in Boston's Chinatown.
Click the link below to sign up for a gift slot. CODE: 1225 |
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 ACDC's Emma Ishida visits DC
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Emma is pictured in a white and blue jacket, with their CITC Fellow cohort. |
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Our Malden Youth Programs Associate, Emma Ishida, was one of this year's Community in the Capital Fellows, a policy advocacy fellowship from June to October for staff at National CAPACD's member organizations across the US. ACDC has been a longtime CAPACD member, and several of our staff have served as CITC Fellows!
Beyond touring the White House and meeting the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI), Emma had the chance to learn about other fellows’ work as well as federal-level policy advocacy.
Emma met with Senator Ed Markey’s office to advocate against green gentrification in Malden and talk about the Inflation Reduction Act and some state-level policies like the HERO Bill.
The biggest takeaway from this fellowship for Emma was “connecting with people doing similar work across different communities in the US to better understand federal-level policy advocacy and how it might impact our local communities.” |
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United Way of Mass Bay Partners with ACDC |
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| ACDC is proud to be selected as one of 124 new partners of United Way of Massachusetts Bay, a recognition of our organization’s potential to advance an economically just region where access to financial well-being is universal, and prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity. |
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The harrowing, ongoing conflict we are witnessing serves as a reminder to look after our neighbors and show care for one another. What systems and community values can we uphold (or break down) to ensure that individuals and families have safe and affordable homes, have the means to thrive and dream, feel a sense of belonging and connection with their neighbors, and play active roles in shaping their neighborhood? At ACDC, we all reflect on this often in our work on both micro and macro levels, and we are grateful to our many partners and supporters who share our commitment to investing in people and communities we call home.
The change of seasons coincides with some exciting updates and transitions at ACDC. We are excited for you to meet our new staff and share progress on our latest impacts in this month's newsletter.
Warmly, Angie Liou Executive Director |
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We are overjoyed to invite you to the Opening Celebration of Hudson Street Stoop's (HSS) second exhibit, Dancing Dragon by Katherine Chin and Parke MacDowell!
Inspired by traditional Chinese dragon dance, Dancing Dragon consists of a steel pavilion with a meandering canopy structure providing seating, shade, and armature for community activity. This FREE and family-friendly event will feature live entertainment, refreshments, arts and crafts, and an opportunity to meet the installation artists.
EVENT DETAILS Date: Saturday, November 11, 2023  Time: 1:00 - 3:00 PM
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66 - 88 Hudson Street, Boston, MA 02111 (view on a map)  Rain Date: Sun, Nov 12, 1-3 PM
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ABOUT HUDSON STREET STOOP Hudson Street Streep (HSS) is an ANCHOR project where artists and residents co-create temporary art installations that transform One Greenway Park into an activated and inclusive neighborhood “stoop.” Our goals are to create art that reminds working-class individuals and families that they belong and honors the rich history of Chinatown.
ANCHOR is ACDC’s anti-displacement strategy that leverages arts, culture, and resident leadership to extend the edges of Chinatown and create spaces for healing and joy. |
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HSS 2023-25 is supported in part by: Healthy Places by Design and their partners John Hancock, AARP Massachusetts, UMass Boston, the City of Boston Age Strong Commission, as well as Beyond Walls, the Beyer Blinder Belle Foundation, Boston Global Investors, Payette, Perkins+Will, and Utile.
We’d also like to thank our site partners Bozzuto, Maloney Properties, One Greenway, and Tufts University. |
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 ACDC Seeks Director of Real Estate 
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| ACDC seeks a Director of Real Estate who will play a key role in the organization’s housing development work. The Director will establish a pipeline of projects and oversee the execution and implementation of housing development, focusing on ACDC’s primary geographies of Boston’s Chinatown, Malden, and Quincy.
The Director will supervise 1-2 Real Estate Project Managers and various consultants. |
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ACDC & The Community Builders to Develop Parcel P-12C |
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The BPDA board recently voted to designate ACDC and The Community Builders as the developers to create affordable housing and public open space at Parcel P-12 C, located at 290 Tremont Street in Chinatown.
The current design by Stantec proposes 86 all-affordable rentals for households at or below 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI) and 36 mixed-income condos. The proposal features three-bedroom units to help make Chinatown accessible to working-class families and a public open space to cultivate a more activated and socially connected neighborhood.
Stay tuned for more updates on future public presentations and engagement opportunities. |
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 Meet Our New Staff
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From left to right: Cindy, Meika, and Jenny. |
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ACDC has welcomed new team members recently:
Cindy Lai, she/her, Office Manager Before joining ACDC, Cindy was involved with a nonprofit to empower the next generation of Vietnamese leaders in New England. Cindy has organized campaigns to support and assist North American Vietnamese nonprofits and philanthropic organizations to better achieve their mission through collective and collaborative partnerships, events, and community building. Cindy graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor’s in Bilingual Education, focusing on ESL programming. She is bilingual in Vietnamese and English.
Meika Shuman, she/her, Mass Promise Fellow - Youth Programs Associate As the 2023-2024 Massachusetts Promise Fellow, an AmeriCorps program, Meika will work with the high school-aged youth in A-VOYCE, ACDC’s youth leadership program. Born in Guangzhou, China, she was adopted in 2002 and moved to Burlington, Vermont. Meika earned her B.S. from the University of Vermont with a B.S. in neuroscience. She is excited to be part of the Chinatown community, explore Chinese culture, and get to know Malden, where she currently lives.
Jenny Huang, she/her, Director of Community Design & Planning Jenny Huang joined ACDC as the Director of Community Design & Planning in late September 2023. She will be involved with the organization's creative placekeeping, youth and resident leadership development, and open space work. Jenny is a second-generation Chinese American who is energized by efforts to build immigrant and working-class power and work towards longterm spatial justice. Originally from Indiana, Jenny earned a B.S./B.A. from Indiana University, an M. Phil from the University of Oxford, and is a doctoral candidate in political theory at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining ACDC, she was a civic engagement practitioner in Chicago and worked on social policy in South Bend. Jenny is a heritage Mandarin speaker. |
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 October SaturPLAY
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SaturPLAY SaturPLAY is ACDC's youth-led placekeeping program where local students collaborate with ACDC and the Greenway to plan crafts and activities for Chinatown families. Once a month from spring to fall, our SaturPLAY youth (aka SaturPALS) host an event at Mary Soo Hoo Park on the Greenway. This month, Saturplay is partnering with the Humans of Chinatown project for a pop-up event!
Saturday, October 28 1:00 - 3:00 pm Mary Soo Hoo Park on the Greenway
HUMANS OF CHINATOWN is a portrait and interview series for the Chinatown Cultural Plan. They are collecting stories of what makes Chinatown sacred to you. In collaboration with A-VOYCE’s SaturPLAY event at Mary Soo Hoo Park on the Greenway, they will be offering an opportunity to have your portrait taken by photographer Mel Taing and to share your story through an audio interview. Mel will be sending your portrait to you via email after the event date. You’re free to share the photo with friends and family or even get it printed.
Artist team Mel Taing, Lily Xie, and Heang Rubin will be developing creative documentation such as a short animation to share your portraits and stories as part of the Chinatown Cultural Plan. Mel will be sending your portrait to you via email after the event date. You’re free to share the photo with friends and family or even get it printed.
The Chinatown Cultural Plan is a project created in partnership with the Asian Community Development Corporation, Chinatown Community Land Trust, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, Pao Arts Center, and Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. The plan will be anchored by a collective vision that identifies the culture, history and heritage of Boston Chinatown with a policy agenda that links to the 2020 Master Plan’s goals for housing, mobility, health, environmental justice and open space. The Chinatown Cultural Plan will include an updated inventory of the neighborhood’s cultural assets and strategies to preserve and expand cultural and artistic vitality in Chinatown. |
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 Mid Autumn Cultural Festival Recap 
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We had a great turnout at last month's Mid Autumn Cultural Festival at Chinatown Backyard! Community members enjoyed games, arts & crafts activities, moon cake tasing, and story time. Thank you to all of our partners and supporters for making this event possible. |
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 Summer Picnic at
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What: Free community event to celebrate summer and meet your neighbors! When: Saturday, July 22 from 12 - 3 pm (Rain Date: Sunday, June 23) Where: Tufts Community Commons , 186 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111 Who: Family-friendly event open to everyone |
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Hudson Street Stoop is ACDC’s rotating public art initiative to transform One Greenway Park into an activated and inclusive neighborhood “stoop.” We have exciting updates to share about the next Hudson Street Stoop (HSS) exhibit, on view from Summer 2023 - Fall 2025. |
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In this video, HSS Artists Katherine Chin & Park MacDowell share updates on the fabrication process and reveal the rendering of Dancing Dragon.
About the design: Dancing Dragon is a steel pavilion with a meandering canopy structure providing seating, shade, and the structure for community activity. It is inspired by the traditional Chinese dragon dance with exuberant geometry above and joyful gathering below.
Residents and community members provided input to select Dancing Dragon after community Visioning Sessions, with the final decision made by the HSS Committee. The committee is comprised of Chinatown residents and arts administrators.
HSS 2023-2025 is funded in part by Healthy Places by Design and their partners John Hancock, AARP Massachusetts, UMass Boston, and the City of Boston Age Strong Commission, as well as Beyer Blinder Belle Foundation, Beyond Walls, Payette, Perkins+Will, and Utile.
Special thanks to our Tufts University - School of Medicine partners who have been evaluating the impact of HSS on our residents and the community. Thank you to our site partners Bozzuto, Maloney Properties, One Greenway, and Concentric Fabrication!
Stay tuned for an Opening Celebration announcement! |
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 Films at the Gate Festival
Friday, August 25 - Sunday, August 27 |
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Films at the Gate Festival is back for the 17th year! This event is organized by local high school youth and ACDC's A-VOYCE alumni. Films at the Gate has always been free for the community to enjoy live martial arts, musical and dance performances, and kung fu and contemporary films honoring Asian American artists and stories.
Mark your calendars for Friday, August 25 - Sunday, August 27.
Sponsor the event to help us cover event costs! |
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 At Home in Chinatown:
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Join ACDC and Pao Arts Center for the opening of At Home in Chinatown: A Residence Lab Retrospective, an exhibition highlighting four years of Residence Lab (ResLab), a community-centered artist residency that partners local artists and Chinatown residents in the co-designing of a public art project.
Facilitated in collaboration with the Pao Arts Center, the residency is now coming to a close, and we want to celebrate the end of its journey with you!
At Home in Chinatown: A Residence Lab Retrospective On view at Pao Arts Center from July 27th to October 13th Opening Reception | July 27th at 5:30 pm at Pao Arts Center
Participating artist-resident teams: (2019) Tarik Bartel, Joyce Chen, and Maggie Chen (2019) Crystal Bi, Lily Xie, Pihua Lin, and Yuyi Li (2020) Maria Fong, Sylvia Chen, and Po Chun Chow (2021) Yuko Okabe, Kathy Wu, Amy Lam, and Elaine Liang (2022) Ann Dinh, Alison M, and Winnie Yuen (2022) Amanda Beard Garcia, Yanna Chen, and Xingyao He
Curated by Lily Song, Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice & the Built Environment at Northeastern University.
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Join us in supporting local youth in being community leaders and advocates! ACDC is raising funds for another vibrant summer experience for high school youth in the Boston area. The donations will directly fund the Summer Leadership Academy (lunch for youth, field trips, etc.) and ACDC's youth-organized Films at the Gate Festival - a much-loved event that is always free to the community! The theme for this summer's program focuses on health and wellness on an individual, community, and structural level. |
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THANK YOU to everyone who attended ACDC's 2023 Annual Meeting: People, Place, Power |
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It was fantastic to see residents, community members and partners, Board Members, and staff all together again. We also loved to see A-VOYCE youth and alumni in attendance together.
A heartfelt thank you to our guest speakers Miaoyi, Jarita, and Maggie, for sharing their experiences of being involved with ACDC. Miaoyi and Jarita are two Malden A-VOYCE youth. Maggie is a ACDC resident at 66 Hudson Street and a graduate of ACDC's inaugural Resident Leadership Training Series hosted last year.
We are so proud of how they have grown into our community's leaders! |
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Thank you to Lee-Daniel Tran for photographing this event! You can view his photos below. |
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ACDC is restoring our Harrison Avenue mural, Tied Together by a Thousand Threads by artist Shaina Lu. |
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Completed in 2017, Tied Together by a Thousand Threads is a mural created by ACDC to use community-centered public art to combat gentrification in Chinatown. In honor of the mural's fifth anniversary, ACDC looks forward to working with Shaina Lu (mural artist), to restore the mural to its original vibrancy.
If you are looking for a way to support ACDC, help fund the mural restoration with a donation today! |
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We are pleased to announce the next Hudson Street Stoop installation. |
The 2023-24 Hudson Street Stoop installation by artists Katherine Chin & Parke MacDowell is coming later this year. Dancing Dragon was selected after community Visioning Sessions with residents & community members. The final selection was by the HSS Committee. |
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Last but not least, we thank Paul W. Lee for his service as ACDC's Board Chair from 2013-2022. |
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Paul W. Lee, a cofounder of ACDC and who grew up on Hudson Street, remains on our Board of Directors. He was recently named one of 25 Legends, Leaders, & Pioneers at GetKonnected's event honoring Boston's Most Influential Asian American Pacific Islanders. We welcome Geoff Why, who has served on ACDC's Board since 2012, as ACDC's new Board Chair. |
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Thank you. We look forward to a wonderful year ahead. |
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Thank you for your support this year. |
Dear Chutze,
2022 was a big year for ACDC. I am so grateful for your role in supporting the people we serve and the places they call home.
As we reflect on this past year, we are proud to share what we accomplished. We couldn't have done it without your help!
This Giving Season, we hope you will support ACDC by making a donation, which is 100% tax-deductible. Gifts of any size will make a lasting impact.
Your contribution helps our neighborhoods continue to expand and thrive.
Thank you, Angie Liou ACDC Executive Director |
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Highlights from this year: |
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This year's Resident Leadership Training Series cohort |
Fostering resident leadership and advocacy through programs like our Resident Leadership Training Series, a series of bilingual community organizing workshops led in partnership with Mel King Institute. |
| Hudson Street Stoop's Storytell and Sway Closing Exhibit |
Building community anchors through Hudson Street Stoop, a rotating public art exhibit on One Greenway park and development of Parcel R-1 to create affordable housing and a space for Chinatown's Boston Public Library branch. |
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Summer Leadership Academy took a field trip to Spectacle Island |
Promoting local youth leadership through our A-VOYCE School Year Program, Summer Leadership Academy, and year-round paid internship opportunities for high school and college students. |
| Juk Sing performs at the Films at the Gate festival; photo by Devin Edwards |
Supporting public arts and culture programs like Films at the Gate, a free, outdoor Chinese film festival held annually at Chin Park, and Residence Lab, a resident and artist residency program in partnership with Pao Arts Center. |
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ACDC's purchase of 64 Beach St. marked the first time a nonprofit has bought a privately owned and occupied building in Chinatown |
| Lastly, we continued our mission to preserve and increase affordable housing in the Greater Boston area by purchasing 64 Beach St. in Chinatown to preserve privately owned housing as affordable housing and a neighborhood restaurant and 213 Main St. in Malden to create new affordable housing. |
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Your donation will fund impacts like these and more! |
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Dear Friends of ACDC,
Following the recent attack that took place at the Wollaston T station in Quincy, we are committed to working with community partners and elected officials to raise awareness and share safety resources. Please read on for more information about an upcoming public meeting in Quincy.
Our thoughts are also with individuals impacted by the recent Colorado shooting, and their friends, family, and chosen family who are grieving their loved ones.
In these times, we are reminded of the many organizers, leaders, and groups dedicated to immediate and long-term solutions, and policies to protect our youth and future generations. We are thankful to work alongside wonderful community partners to address the most urgent needs faced by our constituents. We are immensely grateful to our supporters for your trust in us and for the daily impact that you are creating.
Thank you for joining ACDC in fostering welcoming and safe communities for all. |
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Wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful holiday, Angie Liou Executive Director |
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Quincy Public Safety Meeting November 28 |
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There will be an in-person public community safety meeting to provide community support and safety resources following the recent attack at the Wollaston T station in Quincy. This event is hosted by Councillor-at-Large Nina Liang, Mayor Thomas Koch, Councillor Chuck Phelan, and Councillor Ian Cain, and will be joined by fellow elected officials and community organizations. Event Details Monday, November 28  5:30 pmQuincy Housing Authority 80 Clay Street, Quincy, MA 02170  Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese interpretations will be provided.
The event is free and open to all community members. |
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ACDC's Parcel R-1 Project Progressing |
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Rendering courtesy of Stantec. |
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We held a second Impact Advisory Group and public meting on November 16 to update the community on the design process of the Parcel R-1 development. Parcel R-1 is located on Hudson Street, across from our One Greenway building, and will create over 100 income-restricted rentals and condos and bring back a Chinatown Boston Public Library branch. As the only Boston neighborhood without its own BPL branch, this is a major milestone for the community. We are excited to make this possible following decades of organizing by community leaders and the Friends of the Chinatown Library. |
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From December 25 to January 1, the team at ACDC will take an organizational break to spend time with loved ones, rest, and return recharged in our commitment to building equitable communities we can all call home.
If you are planning a year-end gift, please donate online to avoid mail delays. We hope you will consider ACDC for Giving Tuesday on November 29th! |
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Your donation of $1,000 or more is eligible for a 50% tax rebate! CITC donors have been the lifeline of our pandemic relief programs and services and supported the expansion of ACDC's youth leadership and public art programming. Donations must be received by December 31 to be eligible for 2022 tax credits. Make an extra special Giving Tuesday donation with a CITC contribution.
If you plan to mail or drop off a check, please note our office holiday closure from December 25 to January 1, and plan accordingly. Email citc@asiancdc.org for any questions or click on the button below to learn more. |
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Hudson Street Stoop Update |
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After a successful inaugural exhibit featuring Gianna Stewart's Storytell & Sway, ACDC is excited to announce that the artist group for the 2023 - 2024 Hudson Street Stoop installation has been selected!
Dancing Dragon by Katherine Chin & Parke MacDowell will come to One Greenway Park in Spring 2023! Stay tuned for further details on the design and future Hudson Street Stoop events. Thank you to all the incredibly talented and collaborative artists who have been a part of this process. We thank all of the residents and community members who shared their insightful feedback and ideas. |
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Special thanks to our Hudson Street Stoop Committee: Janiqwa Johnson, Chinatown resident Angela Soo Hoo, Chinatown resident Dianyvet Serrano, Chinatown resident Ada Wu, Chinatown resident & A-VOYCE youth Cherry Yang, Utile Sheila Novak, The Greenway Conservancy
And thank you to our partners at Tufts University who have been evaluating the project, its process, and its resulting impact: Dr. Alice Tang, Dr. Kim Dong, Corey Mullins, Zihan Yu, and Ann Nguyen. |
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A-VOYCE Youth Learn About Climate Resilience |
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Recently, our Chinatown and Malden A-VOYCE cohorts partnered with incredible community organizations to learn about climate resiliency work in their neighborhoods!
Malden youth explored the Malden River and learned about the intentional community-based process of building a climate-resilient park along the river. They used temperature gauges to spot the temperature difference between a cement lot and land by the river. Youth enjoyed meeting with Diana Jeong, co-founder and board member of GMAACC, who gave a tour of downtown Malden. Diana shared her family's immigration history and involvement in the community.
Our Chinatown program youth went on a Chinatown History tour led by ACDC staff and explored the Greenway from Chin Park to Rowes Wharf Plaza, learning about the importance of green space for communities in Boston.
These tours ground our youth in their neighborhood's history and community initiatives, informing the projects our youth will design and implement in the spring. Thank you to the Mystic River Watershed Association, Greater Malden Asian American Community Coalition, and The Greenway for sharing your knowledge and time! |
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Save the Date - ACDC's Annual Meeting |
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Board Member Mai Du and her son and A-VOYCE Alum Thomas at a past annual meeting; photo by Black Dog Pictures. |
Tuesday, January 31 at 6:00 pm More details to come! |
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“The problem with Chinatown has been, it’s very, very difficult to find sites to put affordable housing,” said Liou. “You don’t often get opportunities to do bigger developments. When you can add even 50 or 60 units, that’s a significant add to the inventory.” |
| Angie shares her thoughts in a radio interview on the PLAN: Downtown initiative to revitalize downtown Boston, "We want to make sure that we can protect the [affordable] housing...to protect the residents who have been very vulnerable to evictions." |
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Save the Date: Dim Sum Breakfast! 
Photography by Lee-Daniel Tran (@leedanieltranphoto)
Join us for ACDC's Annual Heart of the Community Dim Sum Breakfast! It will be a morning of savory and sweet dim sum dishes while supporting ACDC’s community programs.
Friday, June 6
10:00 AM
Empire Garden, 690 Washington St, Boston Chinatown
ACDC’s 2025 - 2030 Strategic Plan 
Pages 1 and 6 of our new 2025 - 2030 Strategic Plan.
Paid Youth Opportunity - Apply Now! 
Attention all high schoolers: ACDC has a PAID summer opportunity for you!
Recap: Alumni Mahjong Night 
We host these events as a way to cultivate collaborative visioning sessions where alumni can share feedback, ideas, and visions for future alumni engagement opportunities.
ACDC Staff at MACDC Lobby Day! 
Join a Chinatown Tour! 
SaturPLAY Returns! 
The weather is getting warmer, which means SaturPLAY is back! Every last Saturday of the month from April through October (excluding August), ACDC youth organize and lead free interactive and family-oriented activities at Mary Soo Hoo Park, in partnership with the Greenway. Each event will have arts and crafts activities and games for children to enjoy.
Recap: Chinatown Donuts with Delegates 
Thank you, Rep. Michlewitz, for your leadership and support! 
Submit Feedback: City of Boston’s Anti-Displacement Plan! 
️ Support ACDC’s Work 
Films at the Gate is THIS WEEKEND!
Matched Savings Program Now Open
Registration deadline: Saturday, September 15
For more details: call or email Julia at 781-851-4619 or 
Sign Up for a 
Are you looking for an interesting summer activity to do in Boston with family and friends? If so, ACDC’s interactive tours are the perfect match for you!
Check Out ACDC’s Short Videos!
Summer Picnic Recap
Photos by Ryan Lee
In July, ACDC hosted its 2nd annual Summer Picnic at the Chinatown Backyard. We are grateful to all who attended and the dedicated staff and volunteers who made this event possible!
Stay tuned for Hudson Street Stoop events coming this fall.
️ Support ACDC’s Work 
A Summer’s Day 
Thank you all for the outpouring of support and kind words you shared in support of ACDC’s youth Summer Leadership Academy (SLA) campaign!
Cantonese & Mandarin interpretation provided.
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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