Celebrating 35 years since its founding, AAPIP is hosting its National Network Convening in 2025!
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September 2024
Dear AAPIPers,
Celebrating 35 years of expanding and mobilizing resources for AAPI communities, AAPIP will be hosting its 35th Anniversary Conference in Chicago, IL on May 19-21, 2025! Since 1990, AAPIP has cultivated a robust network of AANHPI philanthropic professionals, co-conspirators, and allies, who have highlighted the invisibility of the social and economic issues AANHPI communities face, and invited philanthropy to work towards the collective good that is racial equity and justice. We welcome you to celebrate nearly four decades of progress, reflect on and deepen your racial equity and justice strategies and practices, and join us at AAPIP’s 35th Anniversary Conference, so stay tuned for program and registration updates!
AAPIP is growing! We are seeking candidates for the Director of Chapter Strategy & Engagement role. The Director of Chapter Strategy and Engagement will be a part of AAPIP’s program team and play a pivotal role in building out the infrastructure of and increasing capacity for our chapter network. Learn more about the position and how to apply here before the September 30th deadline.
We would also like to acknowledge last week’s commemoration of 23 years since 9/11. As we continue to mourn the lives that were lost on September 11, 2001, we must also acknowledge that our communities, specifically Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities, continue to be targeted by xenophobia and violence. We witness the continued usage of unfounded, yet dangerous and hateful rhetoric about immigrant and refugee communities, and so we invite all of us working in social justice philanthropy to stand in solidarity and to stand firm in our efforts to advance racial equity, justice, and peace.
In community,
AAPIP
AAPIP Programs
Save the Date: AAPIP's 2024 National Network Conference
Celebrating 35 years since its founding, AAPIP will be hosting its 35th Anniversary Conference in Chicago, IL on May 19-21, 2025!
Over three days in Chicago, AAPIP will offer space for funders to deepen their understanding of AANHPI community priorities and what role they can play in supporting AANHPI movements, space for connection and community building across AAPIP's national network, and space for joy and celebration in the face of the many struggles our communities are grappling with.
More information on the program coming soon! Early bird registration for members opens later this Fall.
Since formally launching Affinity Spaces earlier this year in May, we have received an overwhelmingly positive response. As a new program, we appreciate your excitement in helping us to continue shaping Affinity Spaces into brave, safe community gatherings, aligned around identity and affinity, that resonate with the lived experiences we each carry while navigating philanthropy.
These Affinity Spaces serve as a unique benefit for current members in the AAPIP network. Together, we hope to curate these groups as a member-led initiative, and welcome folks' leadership, vision, and facilitation to foster a stronger affinity community overall. As we keep building, we'd love for you to share your ideas, hopes, and suggestions and truly co-design with us!
For those new to the member network or if you have colleagues interested in becoming members to join Affinity Spaces, our Member Engagement Manager Samanta Ratsavong (samanta@aapip.org) will be happy to connect for any questions.
See below for the next scheduled meetings for our current Affinity Spaces and share your interest to join us in September and in the coming months!
Once you share your interest, the AAPIP team will connect with you with calendar and zoom information.
AAPI Women Lead AAPIP Funder Briefing
Friday, September 27, 2024
10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Connie Wun, Co-Founder of AAPI Women Lead, and learn more about how they are working to shift the narrative around violence, centering community voices and storytelling through their intergenerational participatory action research, and the role you can play in supporting community-based advocacy through AAPI Women Lead’s launch of their Research and Education for Advocacy and Liberation Institute.
LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics) is a national nonprofit that serves the greater API community to achieve full participation and equality through leadership, empowerment, and policy.
The LEAP Impact Program is a dynamic and immersive cohort learning experience designed to empower Asian and Pacific Islander, nonprofit leaders through culturally responsive workshops, frameworks, and community building.
Impact is suitable for mid-to-senior-level, full-time, nonprofit staff and managers with 2+ years working at a nonprofit organization looking to enhance or further develop their leadership skills.
The application portal will remain open until October 4.
AAPI Women Lead's 6th Annual ImReady Conference: “Building New Worlds”
September 21, 2024
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th St Ste 290, Oakland, CA 94607
You're invited to AAPI Women Lead's sixth annual ImReady Conference, “Building New Worlds.” Since 2018, AAPI Women Lead has brought together hundreds of Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander women, girls, non-binary, gender expansive communities and our co-conspirators/allies every single year for ImReady conferences. “Building New Worlds,” will bring together artists, educators, activists, organizers, and community members who are interested in not only new worlds, but new ways of being. Speakers, agendas, and more to be announced in the coming weeks—learn more about the conference here, and stay tuned for updates by following AAPI Women Lead on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
AAPI Women Lead is also looking for volunteers to be part of this year's conference. As a community-based organization, volunteers have always been an integral part of ImReady. All volunteers will have free access to the conference. Please apply at the link found here.
Racial Equity Advancement and Defense Initiative (READI) Resource Bank
Let’s not mince words: it is legally sound to fund race-explicit grants and programming in the United States. While the number of legal threats and attacks have risen in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action decision, many of those cases have rightly been thrown out of court on technical grounds.
To learn more, join ABFE – A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Hispanics in Philanthropy, and Native Americans in Philanthropy for a timely webinar about what the Fearless Fund Settlement means for philanthropy. We are hoping to schedule the webinar for next week with details forthcoming very soon.
AAPIP is in deep appreciation for the ongoing support from our 400+ member network who join us in supporting AANHPI people in philanthropy and working to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at advancing the inclusion, health, and wellbeing of AANHPI communities in the pursuit of a more just and equitable society.
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