About Communities As One
In Cantonese, Yik Oi means “Abundant Love”, and abundant love is the foundation upon which Communities As One is built on.
Communities as One (CAO) is a 501(c)(3) Community-Based Organization (CBO) led by and for AAPI. Its founding in 2020 was inspired by Grandma Yik Oi Huang’s death: to be a catalyst for healing and racial solidarity; to transmute crisis into opportunity; to find in hate abundant love. Since then, CAO has been advocating and building programs for wholeness and wellness, so as to counteract the traumas of separation and violence.
CAO is one of 40 organizations to have received a US Federal grant from the American Rescue Plan in support of AAPI communities and survivors of gender-based violence or sexual assault. We partner with values-aligned organizations, such as the National Organization of Asian Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV) and the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (API-GBV), to create culturally specific programming, like Move the Chi, Daoist Internal Neigong for AAPI, Wellness Wednesdays, and more.
Co-Founders:
Josephine Zhao
Tina Wong
A Community Effort to Rename Visitacion Valley Playground to Yik Oi Huang Peace & Friendship Park
Handmade masks for Frontline Workers & Community
