Links

Local

Apna Ghar is a domestic violence shelter serving primarily Asian women and children, and was the first Asian shelter of its kind in the Midwestern United States.

Asian American Artists Collective (AAAC) is a collaborative network of diverse Asian American voices creating intersections between art, audience, and activism.  AAAC confronts, subverts and disrupts stereotypes, discrimination, prejudice, and oppression outside and inside our communities.

Asian Human Services (AHS) is a comprehensive social services agency for the Asian American community of metropolitan Chicago. AHS also operates Passages, a charter school specifically designed for children of recent immigrants.

Indo-American Center promotes the well-being of Indo-Americans through services that facilitate adjustment, integration, and friendship with the wider society, nurture a sense of community, and foster appreciation for their heritage and culture.

Khuli Zaban is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization of South Asian and West Asian Women Who Love Women. 

Leadership Center for Asian Pacific Americans is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping student and community based organizations build their leadership and advocacy abilities through continuing education efforts at the grassroots level. Since 2001, organizing the annual Chicago Asian Pacific Community Leadership Program has been LCA's primary focus.

Maahaul is a collective of students of Indian classical music. They have created a community to help each other stay focused on their riyaz, and help each other learn more about the various styles of their music through discussions and demonstrations with each other. Their goal is to support one another in their lifelong learning, as well as create spaces for them to perform and educate. They seek an audience of other musicians as well as casual listeners who merely want to learn about Indian classical music, and listen to approachable live music in a comfortable, relaxed environment.

Mango Tribe is a multi-city Asian/Pacific Islander American (APIA) interdisciplinary performance ensemble that provides space for APIA girls, women, and genderqueer people to develop their creative voices and skills through collaborative productions. They engage in cultural resistance to oppression through experimental, community-based performance and workshops.

Passages Charter School was launched by Asian Human Services to serve a diverse immigrant and refugee student population from pre-kindergarten to 5th grade.

Rasaka Theatre Company is based in Chicago and is the Midwest’s first South Asian American ensemble.  Their goal is to increase diversity among artists and audience by engaging and illuminating the South Asian American experience. They are dedicated to providing a platform for the artistic expression of South Asian artists. 

Silk Road Theatre Project showcases playwrights of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean backgrounds, whose works address themes relevant to the peoples of the Silk Road and their Diaspora communities.

Third I Chicago is a nonprofit organization committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through independent film.

ZAM's Hope assists primarily low-income South Asian women and their families to adjust to life in the Chicagoland area and to improve their quality of life through services that include emergency assistance, after-school care, citizenship support, economic empowerment, family support, and cultural preservation.

Other Regions

Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA) educates, organizes, and empowers Bay Area South Asians to end violence, oppression, racism, and exploitation within and against our diverse communities.

EKTA is a Bay Area organization that works to provide a platform for social change through art, dialogue, and education. Its goals are to support the artistic endeavors of South Asians in the literary, musical, performing, and visual arts; provide social and educational services to the South Asian community; support charitable projects in South Asia; and collaborate with other nonprofit organizations for providing wider support.

Friends of South Asia (FOSA) is a Bay Area organization that works toward a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia.

Organizing Youth! is a Bay Area volunteer collective of artists, activists, educators, and students providing radical political education and training to South Asian youth, to empower them to organize for political, social, economic, and environmental justice. OY! is dedicated to building a vibrant community of South Asian activists who are committed to taking the struggle for global equality and social change back to their communities and to the building of a mass movement.

Youth Solidarity Summer-NY is a volunteer collective of artists, activists, educators, and students providing alternate education for South Asian youth since 1997. Youth Solidarity Summer's mission is to provide radical political education for young activists of South Asian descent.

National

Chowrangi is a new quarterly magazine—the brainchild of a small group of Pakistani American academics, artists and professionals who felt the need—one that has become more urgent in an atmosphere shaped by the events of 9/11—for a progressive publication that expresses and explores the particular concerns of the Pakistani diaspora. Chowrangi investigates the intersection of the Pakistani diaspora with the United States and with Pakistan in matters social, political, cultural, and spiritual.

Ghadar is a publication of the forum of inquilabi leftists.  It has published nine volumes.

The South Asian, a monthly newsmagazine, is a voice of peace and justice addressed to members of South Asian origin and ancestry who reside in the Upper Midwest.  It is a forum for all the people of South Asia: a medium for serious conversation, humor, debate, dissent, reflection above all, an honest exchange of ideas that can provide the building blocks of an active and engaged South Asian community.

South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow (SAALT) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the full and equal participation by South Asians in the civic and political life of the United States.

South Asian American Voting Youth (SAAVY) is a volunteer collective of young people that work to empower 18- to 24-year-old South Asian Americans to be united in one voice, creating a powerful voting bloc that will allow South Asian American issues to be pushed to the forefront of American politics.

South Asian Forum is a website of resources that aims to tell the story of South Asians through the lens of its organizations and organizing work. It features a directory of South Asian organizations in the U.S., census info on the South Asian community, a bibliography of South Asian organizing, results of interviews and surveys that highlight best practices of organizations, and a history of South Asian organizing in the U.S.

South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection (SAMAR) is a magazine/website with a South Asian focus based in the U.S.  SAMAR responds to a need for a publication that fosters serious debates within the South Asian community and is meant for a general audience. It focuses on analyses of social processes rather than on direct reporting of news events. As suggested by the name of the magazine, SAMAR tends towards social analyses that draw their energy from activist involvement.

International

Asha for Education is a secular organization dedicated to change in India by focusing on basic education in the belief that education is a critical requisite for socioeconomic change.

Promise of India hopes to provide a platform for the silent majority of Indians to speak up against terrorist acts and communal violence, and for communal harmony.

South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD), an organization of secular and democratic South Asian Diaspora in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

South Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET) is a forum for and about women from South Asian countries.

South Asia Citizen’s Web is an independent space on the Internet to promote exchange of information between and about citizens' initiatives from South Asia and its diasporic communities.