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SAN FRANCISCO – \u00a0A vital San Francisco nonprofit that supports transgender immigrants says it has lost nearly all of its critical funding and may soon be forced to shut its doors.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Parivar Bay Area, a transgender, South Asian-led organization, has served the immigrant community for eight years. “Parivar” means family in Hindi.<\/p>\n
Founder Anjali Rimi said the organization is facing closure due to a lack of funding after failing to receive city grants in the most recent two fiscal years. Currently, the nonprofit is operating on funds from a one-time state grant.<\/p>\n
“Diversity doesn’t mean inclusion,” Rimi said, reflecting on her own journey. “I faced abuse, faced transphobia to the extent that I lost my job and I was homeless and stakeless in this city.”<\/p>\n
Rimi created the nonprofit to help other transgender people and immigrants overcome discrimination through job training programs and community services.<\/p>\n
Alessandra Garcia, an immigrant from Mexico, is among the thousands who have completed programs through Parivar.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know how to do applications,” Garcia said. “Now I know how to navigate the system to find a job.”<\/p>\n
City response, next steps <\/p>\n
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman said the city will provide more than $100,000 to the nonprofit for previous work it has done.<\/p>\n
“That will keep them going for a little while, and we’ll see if there’s any new sources for them,” Mandelman said, noting that officials are actively looking for other potential grants.<\/p>\n
The organization estimates it needs nearly $500,000 to keep its doors open and maintain its programs.<\/p>\n
Dhiraj “Miraaj” Korwani, a singer-songwriter and performer who developed his artistry through Parivar’s community connections, hopes the nonprofit can avoid going dark.<\/p>\n
“Parivar is definitely part of my dreams taking flight because they are wind beneath the wings that I now have which I didn’t even know I had,” Korwani said.<\/p>\n
Rimi is scheduled to meet with the mayor’s office to get a clearer picture of whether the organization will receive the funding it needs to stay open beyond October. If you’re interested in helping, click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0Amber Lee is a reporter with KTVU. Email Amber at Amber.Lee@Fox.com or text\/leave a message at 510-599-3922. Follow her on Facebook @AmberKTVU, Instagram @AmberKTVU or Twitter @AmberKTVU.<\/p>\n The Source: Parivar Bay Area, SF Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, interviews with people who’ve used Parivar services\u00a0<\/p>\n LGBTQ+<\/a>San Francisco<\/a>Immigration<\/a>Arts and Culture<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO – \u00a0A vital San Francisco nonprofit that supports transgender immigrants says it has lost nearly all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,1811,21848,14,2434,100,101,103,102,425,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-418048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-four","tag-four-arts","tag-immigration","tag-lgbtq","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-series","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}