InterIm CDA - Holiday Gift Bags to Residents!
December 22, 2020Events,Community,Neighborhood
In the beginning of the year, InterIm began grocery deliveries to low-income senior residents and their families once a week to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. It began with a GoFundMe page and weekly volunteers from all over the Seattle area, and then turned into a partnership between InterIm, other non-profit organizations that were also participating in grocery deliveries, and Asian Counseling and Referral Services' food bank.
For the holidays, we decided to get together to offer gift cards to grocery stores Uwajimaya, Safeway, or Viet-Wah, depending on the residents' choice. To go along with the gift cards, we put together a gift bag with freshly baked cookies, hand lotion, hand sanitizer, and tea bags.
Enjoy these pictures of some of the InterIm team that put the holiday gift bags together!
Carmen Hom (Employment Navigation Coordinator), Vincent Kwan (Employment Navigation Manager), Derek Lum (Equitable Development Policy Analyst) assembling gift bags for various buildings
Freshly baked cookies with tags that included ingredients!
Tom Im (Deputy Director) on his way to make his delivery
Carol Xie (Resource Development & Marketing Manager)
Another batch on their way out!
Alec Mac (Employment Navigation Assistant) wheeling boxes of gift bags out
Each bag was hand delivered to each resident - they were pleasantly surprised and thrilled to receive their bags!
InterIm CDA - Laptops Provided to Low Income and Homeless Communities
December 22, 2020Uncategorized,Events,Community,Neighborhood,Jobs
Through the King County "Digital Equity for Adults with Barriers to Access and Services" grant, the Employment Navigation team at InterIm was able to secure over 100 laptops to support seniors, limited-English proficient, unemployed, and/or homeless individuals, and an additional 22 hotspots for those that did not have access to internet.
Abby Frias (Sustainability & Education Coordinator), Carmen Hom (Employment Navigation Coordinator), Silver Ly (Housing Stability Case Manager), Lizzy Baskerville (Environmental Design & Sustainability Manager), Alec Mac (Employment Navigation Assistant), Vincent Kwan (Employment Navigation Manager), Carol Xie (Resource Development & Marketing Manager), Renae Figuriera (Family Navigator) on the day of laptop delivery
The grant was approved for 21 organizations across the county, including InterIm CDA. The purpose of the grant was to provide individuals and/or families with digital services to "navigate online resources for health, economic, or other basic needs" who would otherwise not have access to them in an effort to help recover from the vast impacts of COVID-19 (King County).
Alec & Vincent organizing laptops to be delivered to residents
On the morning of December 16, 2020, InterIm staff gathered and formed teams of two to deliver laptops to different apartment buildings to residents that were approved to receive one. Upon arrival, the recipients were told in advance of our scheduled arrival time and signed off to confirm receipt of their new device(s), accepting with gratitude.
Vincent, socially distanced, instructing staff on laptop deliveries and assigning everyone to teams of two
Digital Literacy flyers, with both English and Chinese, that were given to the residents to go along with their laptops
Lizzy organizing and prepping the laptops to be delivered to Rex Apartments' residents
Silver and Renae finishing up their deliveries - they even got to support local restaurant, Tai Tung!
Carol and Lizzy preparing for their last delivery of the day.
Alec during the middle of a delivery
We are working hard to provide services and resources for the communities that we serve, especially during these times. We are confident that the laptops and hotspots that were delivered will help their recipients in their journey to finding employment and other resources, which is now more important than ever.
Thank you to all our supporters that continue to support our work!
InterIm CDA - Coming to the End of 2020
December 16, 2020Uncategorized
InterIm CDA - I5 Underpass Activation Project
Check out our new video that features a walkthrough of our I5 Underpass Activation Project!
We will be hosting a community meeting on December 16th, 2020 at 4:00pm to discuss the design. Please join us and let us know what you think!
Interim CDA - WILD Program
WILD (Wilderness Inner-City Leadership Development) is InterIm CDA's youth leadership program that promotes civic engagement, environmental justice, inter-generational engagement, and college readiness while fostering confidence and compassion in immigrant youth leaders. At the end of each year, the WILD Banquet is held to celebrate and connect the program's youth leaders and the community's senior residents.
For the first time in 23 years, we were not able to hold our annual WILD Banquet to ensure everyone's safety. We've compiled a short video to commemorate and celebrate some joyful moments in the WILD program. Please enjoy this video and join us in remembering these happy times.
Please continue to support us during this time. Your donation helps us continue our community support work in the Chinatown-International District neighborhood.
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Instagram: interimcda
Facebook: @interimcda
Website: interimcda.org
InterIm CDA - Tuesdays w/ Eliza & Henry!
November 18, 2020Uncategorized
Since March, we have been making weekly grocery deliveries to several CID residents - take a look at a small snippet of what our organization has to offer!
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Instagram: @interimcda
Facebook: @interimcda
www.interimcda.org
Northwest Asian Weekly article: "InterIm CDA pivots due to pandemic, reaching out to those in need"
Thanks to Northwest Asian Weekly for this piece on our organization's ongoing work during this pandemic!
Executive Director, Pradeepta Upadhyay, and Deputy Director, Tom Im, were interviewed for this article to describe how we've been keeping the residents in the Chinatown-International District connected, despite this period of uncertainty.
Through efforts of our organization's program managers, we have been able to stay connected to both school-age children through senior residents in various Seattle neighborhoods, through social media, distribution of educational packets, grocery deliveries, cooking and exercise classes, and various other ways.
Check out the full article in the attached link!
InterIm CDA solidarity statement
June 5, 2020Community,News,Press
InterIm Community Development Association (ICDA) stands in solidarity with this weekend's protests around Black Lives Matter and with every black community seeking justice around the criminal justice system and other matters. The recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Nina Pop have brought our country's profound anti-blackness into full view. These incidences have caused us to reflect upon the anti-blackness that exists within our own community.
We are committed to the fight for true equity in every measure of life for the Black community. As a broad Asian and Pacific Islander community, we have benefitted from the civil rights struggles and other efforts of the African American community. In the early fights of the 20th century to protect and preserve our neighborhood, the Black community stood by us when we needed help. As an organization rooted in the Chinatown International District, we recognize that there has been a long history of black residents and business owners as being an integral part of our community. This was part of the work that Uncle Bob did with the Gang of Four. Currently, many black people live in or visit the CID daily. We must never forget this.
We will do work to reckon with our anti-blackness, as an organization and in our community advocacy. We are committed to fighting Institutional Racism and fighting for Racial Equity, as well as following racial justice principals in our Internal and Program work in all area's, including Homelessness Prevention, Housing Development, WILD Youth, Resident Services, Policy and Advocacy, The Danny Woo Garden, Employment Navigation, and Food Security.
Finally, we encourage everybody to donate to Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesseattle.org/bail-fund/. We encourage you to do what is possible in your personal capacity.