🌱 What does the future of our movements look like? These changemakers are building power, one conversation at a time — and you can too. The SEED Fellowship is a summer organizing program for Asian American community members who are ready to step up, speak out, and fight for our communities. ✊🏽💬

South Philadelphia Community Fridge will be raising funds for our fridge and pantry locations as well as collecting laundry detergent and menstrual supplies for Southwark School and South Philly High #CommunitySchoolsPHL

Amidst federal funding cuts to universities, museums, and libraries, it's more important than ever to step up and support educators and students. If you're looking to make a difference, here are a few simple ways to do it. ow.ly/tS5l50VE9rB

Join us for our 2nd anniversary celebration and fundraiser! 🗓️ Saturday, April 26 at 1PM 📍 Old Pine Community Center (401 Lombard St) 🔗 bit.ly/celebrate-afc

With the weather warming up we want to remind everyone to please stop putting raw meat and dairy in the community pantries. We have community fridge locations that you can find here: southphillyfridge.com/locations TLDR: please donate food in a way that YOU would like to receive it!

Lunch at Baby’s today 🥰

“There was this beautiful moment of this community sharing food and meals from our different cultures together [from inside] and outside of the kitchen. And it was just so sweet.” Read what we’re all about ➡️ www.inquirer.com/food/asian-f... 📝 Kristine Villanueva for @inquirer.com 📸 Tyger Williams

Announcing our values ✨ While Asian Food Collective holds many values as individuals and as a group, these are our four core values we use to guide how we want to build community with each other.

If you’re in Philly and want to get more involved with protecting our immigrant neighbors (regardless of immigration status), the New Sanctuary Movement has been fighting on this front since 2007. They have upcoming trainings and other opportunities so please subscribe to their newsletter

Our Steering Committee spent last year reflecting on our mission and values as a group. We’re here to dream big and create a welcoming space for our volunteers. Our mission is to build Pan-Asian/Asian-American community by eating and cooking together.

SNAP is essential for keeping food on the table for millions of Pennsylvanians and many more families throughout the country. Cuts to SNAP would do incredible damage to the households that rely on this program for access to food, as well as to local businesses where families shop. #SNAPMatters

It's National School Breakfast Week, and the Food Research & Action Center reminds us that our activism is needed on a number of issues. This includes telling Congress to oppose any cuts to school meals. You can do that with one click here: buff.ly/7VBCXhO

Thank you Downtime Bakery and Angela Unni for generously donating items from our Target Registry. It was a wonderful way to ring in the lunar new year! 🐍

One in five people in Philly lack reliable access to meals. Here are 15 ways you can do your part to change this. ow.ly/pKe250V6cW7

Calling all neighbors! We’ve created a quick and easy resource page on our website to help you host a food drive for South Philadelphia Community Fridge. Check it out by southphillyfridge.com and click “Host A Food Drive” on the site menu.

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

Some of our favorite Black-owned restaurants throughout #Philly 😋 If you haven't been yet, grab a bite and support them all year long! We know this is only a fraction of Philly's finest! Feel free to share some of your favorite Black-owned restaurants in the replies!

Let's talk about MSG! #MSG is a flavor enhancer like salt or pepper. But why does it have such a bad reputation? #FoodHistory

SEPTA and NJ Transit service will be drastically different than usual ahead of the Eagles parade Friday. Here’s what you need to know.

When we give our youth the resources and support they need to thrive, they do amazing things. Tonight Ginger Arts Center not held a Lunar New Year celebration— they raised over $6K, partnered with various local biz for a raffle, AND were honored with (the good kind of) citation from City Council!

Hey #Philly! It’s been such a joy to volunteer at Ginger Arts Center. Come celebrate #LNY and support the center this Thursday, 2/13 🐍 pThe youth in #PhillyChinatown have been doing incredible work!

🦅 GO BIRDS 🦅 Had so much fun at our SOUP-er Bowl party! Steering Committee members cooked soups galore for the crew. S/O to Sabrina for hosting! And Yidan for teaching some of us how to play Mahjong 🥰

Join Ginger Arts Center for a Lunar New Year celebration! Featuring performances, dinner from local businesses, community speakers, raffle prizes, and more! 📅 Thursday, February 13 ⌚ 5:30 - 7:30pm 📍 The Welcoming Center, 211 N 13th St, 4th floor RSVP required: www.eventbrite.com/e/ginger-art...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

We’ve got a lot of new followers over the past few weeks, hello! 👋 All are welcome at South Philly Community Fridge. You can fill out our interest form to join a great group of neighbors working to bring food to our community members. 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It’s been a long year this week but grateful to take a moment to celebrate with each other 🥰

Learn more about PIC and donate today! paimmigrant.org/donate 2024 has been a difficult year for the immigrant rights movement, but there have also been huge victories throughout. Check out what PIC and PIC members have been able to win!

Happy Lunar New Year 🐍 We love to celebrate the new year in so many ways from cooking and eating together to watching lion dances. Share with us how you're celebrating! 👇

Nine Philly restaurants named as James Beard Award semifinalists! billypenn.com/2025/01/22/p...

Made a ton of soup the other week 🥄

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

Know the signs of hypothermia & frostbite! Hypothermia: shivering, exhaustion, drowsiness, confusion, fumbling hands, memory loss, slurred speech. Frostbite: redness, pain, numbness, loss of sensation, a white or grayish-yellow skin area that feels unusually firm or waxy. 1/5

An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.

It’s always phở season but today especially! 🥰❄️

We’re back! We cooked 23 meals for @southphlfridge.bsky.social this past Saturday. So good to be cooking together again. 🥰

Thank u! Mighty Bread Co Bart’s Bagels Northwest Mutual Aid Double Trellis Performance Meal Prep Share Food Program Sharing Excess Small Things Philly Asian Food Collective Grocery Outlet of W Oregon Ave Baker Street Bread Philly Parks & Rec Flakely Gluten Free Bakery ShopRite/Fresh Grocer AND MORE!

‼️TENTS NEEDED‼️ It’s cold af & snow is coming DC! We also got numerous encampment evictions coming up. Donate if able! Cashap: $RemoraHouseDC One time & recurring donations: givebutter.com/remorahouse Send one from our WL: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... Love & solidarity!

Fund a Kitchen in Gaza is a free tool to locate food kitchens across Gaza that are providing and distributing urgently needed meals. If you can to give to a kitchen in Gaza, you can find a list here:

💫 AFC 2024 UNWRAPPED 💫 We’ve had a busy year, all of which was made possible because of our incredible volunteers, donors, and partners!

Philadelphia's City Council is unconstitutionally censoring critics of the proposed 76ers arena at meetings. So we joined Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) to send a letter to council reminding them of their First Amendment obligations: www.aclupa.org/sites/defaul...

We are enraged but not surprised by City Council’s decisions to support the 76 Place Arena. This is a sellout deal that was rushed and does not benefit anyone except a small group of billionaires.

Philly police commissioner and beleaguered sheriff facing corruption accusations personally came to Council to supervise dragging and arresting of peaceful anti-arena protesters, while the few arena critics on Council weep...

And a reminder to journalists that our style guide's health care section offers style and coverage resources that provide useful context for anyone reporting on health care for trans people. styleguide.transjournalists.org#subsection-h...

Every time the pro-arena crowd chants “build it,” we are louder. #SaveChinatownPhilly

“There is no such thing as ‘building an arena’ emergency.” #SaveChinatownPhilly

No arena in the heart of our city. Full house in city council tonight. LFG! #SaveChinatownPhilly

Meet Wynn (she/her)! Wynn is a Chinese adoptee and artist. She loves to play tennis and in her spare time she volunteers with Asian Food Collective. #naam #adopteevoices