Cut Fruit Collective is a San Francisco Bay Area grassroots nonprofit creating art to uplift and care for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and heritage neighborhoods. We envision a Bay Area where AAPI communities and artists thrive and experience joy through financial, emotional, physical wellbeing as well as connection to other communities where together we invest in our shared success.

Our goals are to 1. Support AAPI artists 2. Amplify AAPI activists 3. Invest in vulnerable AAPI communities and 4. Build coalitions across AAPI communities and beyond.

Originally known as Save Our Chinatowns, we emerged at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 to rally artists and creatives in raising over $100K+ to support Bay Area Chinatown small businesses and organizations. In May 2021, we evolved our mission to expand beyond Chinatowns in an effort to build coalitions and serve other AAPI communities also vulnerable to inequity, systemic racism, and violence.

Our new name, Cut Fruit Collective reflects the inescapable practice across Asian and Pacific Islander communities of offering thoughtfully prepared fruit as an expression of care for loved ones and strangers alike. In a similar vein, we express community care in creative ways to further strengthen connections and relationships across generations, neighborhoods, and cultures.

To move past the current climate of fear and hate and into empowerment and love, we look to our community’s creative energy to develop appreciation and collective participation in shaping places like Bay Area Chinatowns, Little Saigon, Historic Filipinotown, Japantown, and more to be well-supported, thriving neighborhoods for residents, business owners, and visitors alike.