Join us for our Annual Fundraising Event: “Strengthening Community" on Thursday February 16, 2023 at Sun Kong Restaurant in Malden.

GMAACC was founded in 2014 by Asian American residents of Malden who saw unique needs among the city’s burgeoning Asian community, and launched a youth-led, city-wide needs assessment to inform programmatic directions. As we celebrate our 8th anniversary of community collaborations and partnerships, we are so proud to share that GMAACC has sprouted seeds for positive social change and community betterment in Greater Boston’s North Shore.  With your support, we have made incredible strides in improving Asian American residents’ language access, COVID-19 and vaccination information access, civic participation, workforce development, referral to legal and public services, community’s awareness to anti-Asian hate, and youth leadership development. 

Since the “Standing Tall” Banquet last year, we have:

• Expanded our Ping Pong Program at First Parish Church to over 100 members;

• Collaborated with BCNC/DPH in raising awareness in gambling issues;

• Distributed over 1000 COVID test kit;

• Collaborated with ACDC on various civic engagement/voter education activities;

• Collaborated with Democracy HUB to work on Get Out the Vote activities;

• Co-organized a standout against anti-Asian hate in Malden that drew over 100 participants;

• Advocated with community groups and elected officials to sign the Malden transliteration bill into law;

• Continued our work with youth leadership by providing two programs for high school students;

• Launched weekly dance program.

We couldn’t have done any of these without the sunny rays of trust, nutritious showering of resources, and solid support from you to ground our organization’s work.  Please join us in an evening full of gratitude and celebration for a vibrant Greater Malden Asian American community.  

Notably, in addition to highlighting our current and future initiatives, we would like to recognize an individual and an organization with our 2023 Trailblazer Awards:

• Peter Huang

• Greater Boston Legal Services - Asian Outreach Center

As we look back and celebrate, we also hope to raise funds to sustain another year’s work ahead—to better provide services, build coalitions and power with Malden’s Asian American community members, and embark on our journey of starting our first capital campaign in the hopes of building an Asian American community center.  Please join us for this fundraising banquet as an individual attendee and/or a sponsor, details of which are below. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at admin@gmaacc.org. 

Thank you again for your support—we look forward to celebrating with you on February 16, 2023!

Sincerely yours,

Andrea So & Vivian Tseng
Fundraising Committee Co-Chairs                                

Diana Jeong
Board President

Thank you to our generous sponsors and donors:

Nurturing Water: $2,500
CUE Realty
East Cambridge Savings Bank
Eastern Bank

Healthy Tree: $1,000
Diana Jeong
Mystic Valley NAACP
Sunshine Bilingual Learning & Care, Inc.

Stabilizing Sapling: $500
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Boston Little Saigon
Mystic Valley YMCA
Rosetta Languages
Tufts Medical Center

Join ACDC and GMAACC on Thursday, 8/20 at 6 PM to meet Rep. Paul Donato and Nichole Mossalam, candidates of the Democratic Primary 35th Middlesex District State Representative. Hear their views on housing, small businesses, racial equity, and more!

Chinese and Vietnamese interpretation will be provided.

Register for this event here: bit.ly/midcandidatesforum