a collective of people adopted from china working together to organize the first closed* conference for our community.
virtual fundraiser
to help offset conference costs we are hosting a virtual fundraiser.
link to donate here.
:: UPDATE #001 02.21.2025 ::
we reached our first goal! a huge thank you to everyone who donated and shared our virtual fundraiser with their connections. with the money we were able to ::
i. provide 8 micro grants to community members to help offset travel and hotel costs in order to attend the conference
ii. buy 20 dna kits for conference attendees who would otherwise not have access to one or a safer space to take one
iii. pay off the venue invoice
our new goal is $8,000. we are less than $2500 away from reaching it already! the new goal will help offset the following conference costs ::
i. workshop and session expenses (dumpling making supplies, table rentals for mahjong and the affinity mixer)
ii. art supplies (art workshop expenses, mural project supplies)
iii. stipends and reimbursements (hotel and travel costs for speakers and co facilitators volunteering their time and knowledge throughout the conference)
thank you again for helping us organize the first chinese adoptee conference. please continue to share this virtual fundraiser with your trusted connections and donate when you can.
today there are approximately 160,000 people who were born in china and adopted transnationally. these people have generally been isolated from each other and often been told to be grateful for their adoption. this dismisses and minimizes the losses many face from relinquishment. with the recent news of china closing its international adoption program, our community is especially fragile and in need now more than ever to gather, socialize, organize, and heal.
if you care about someone who you think could benefit from this conference please consider donating. your donations directly help people transnationally adopted from china get in touch with their first country, their first culture, and furthermore themselves.
if you identify as a person adopted from china or elsewhere please share this virtual fundraiser with trusted connections before donating yourself. we as a collective understand firsthand the exhausting and unsustainable nature of relying solely on our own community to fund projects for healing and resource exchange. if you do have the capacity to donate please know we extend our deepest gratitude to you.
link to donate here.
if you are an organization in the adoption sect and are interested in collaborating please contact us using our contact form .
*closed means only for people (adults 18+) adopted from china. no adoptive parents, partners, or general public.
© 2024-2025 chinese adoptee collective.