Incredible community,

We are so grateful to you! Given all the challenges of the past year, and the ongoing realities of the pandemic, we still have had 850 supporters in our virtual gala campaign - and counting! You pushed through zoom fatigue, showed up, and we are now only $43,000 away from our fundraising goal!

Heading into the final stretch of our goal means so much; it will allow us to continue to provide support to survivors, help people leave exploitative and abusive working conditions, and share language and culturally appropriate resources around vaccines, and keeping safe during COVID. Hear from one of our Survivor Keynotes from our live event, about her journey with harm, healing, and API Chaya:

Alice gave us permission to share her speech in the hopes that API Chaya can meet its goal of raising $400,000 for survivor services. You can see even more on our gala page, including two community organizing program spotlights, an update on the agency from API Chaya’s Co-Directors, and more coming throughout this week! All are available at apichaya.org/gala. 

Your Support is Critical

During these times, when stay-at-home orders are in place and more survivors are home with abusive parties for longer hours in the day, your support helps API Chaya stay flexible to respond to the changing needs of our clients. For some people, they may only have a window of an hour to seek help and reach us. Your support allows our staff to work with individuals to navigate safety planning, creating networks of support, access to courts, and meet basic needs. It allows us to meet the needs of clients who have fled violence and are now single working parents, including clients and families who are facing illness. This is a time when we can all work together for the common good. 

And don’t forget - we have a few more of these beautiful API Chaya mugs as appreciation gifts to those who donate $500 or more. These are double walled, insulated copper-plated mugs produced by MiiR, a certified B-corp headquartered right here in Seattle.