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October 2024
Dear AAPIPers,
Happy Filipino American History Month!
At AAPIP, we make the intentional choice to come together as one beautifully diverse AANHPI community. We recognize our ownership of our identity as AANHPI people is an intentional act of solidarity to build power across communities of color and the vast AANHPI diaspora. And, as a large community full of wonderful nuance, we also recognize the importance of celebrating specific ethnic communities - AMEMSA communities, Filipino communities, Native Hawaiian communities, Pacific Islander communities, and more.
Additionally, as we head into the final weeks of the 2024 US presidential election, regardless of the outcome, we remain committed to building a more just and equitable society for all. Please stay tuned for more information on a members-only election processing space.
In community,
AAPIP
AAPIP Programs
Funder Briefing: Mobilizing Philanthropic Support for Palestinian Communities
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
12 PM PT / 3 PM ET
In the past year, more than 40,000 Palestinians have lost their lives and over 2.3 million Palestinians have been displaced. For decades, countless lives in the Middle East have been deeply impacted by discrimination, dispossession, and violence. With the October 7th attack, taking of hostages, and heartbreaking devastation in Gaza, the philanthropic sector has struggled with how to respond - especially when it comes to supporting Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities.
This funder briefing, co-sponsored by AAPIP and 18 Million Rising, centers Palestinian-led and Muslim-led nonprofit organizations whose work is critical to protecting and advocating for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities here in the U.S. and abroad.
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about movement organizing on the ground and the important campaigns these organizations have been leading to address both the urgency and roots of the current crisis. We will address the challenges that nonprofits and funders face in coordinating this important work. As Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities are being threatened by a sharp rise in Islamophobia, this funder briefing will center the voices and leadership of Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims and offer resources and partnerships to help grantmakers meaningfully support Palestinian and AMEMSA communities and move our sector toward a just world.
Speakers:
Lara Kiswani, Arab Resource and Organizing Center
Ahmad Abuznaid, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
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.
Asian Pacific Fund Distributes Over $1 Million To Support Bay Area Nonprofits Serving The AANHPI Community
The Asian Pacific Fund (APF) recently announced more than $1 million in grants supporting 28 Bay Area nonprofits serving the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community. APF’s latest funding initiatives bring their cumulative grantmaking to over $61 million, which have resourced organizations empowering some of the region’s most underserved AANHPIs since 1993.
Other key highlights from the announcement include:
APF has launched a new initiative called the ACT for AANHPIs Fund (Accelerating Capacity for Transformation), providing $100,000 over two years to selected nonprofits.
The Resiliency & Recovery Fund, established in 2020, continues to support AANHPI-serving nonprofits with flexible grants.
These initiatives address the significant underfunding of AANHPI organizations, which receive only 0.20% of all U.S. foundation funding despite representing 33% of the Bay Area's population.
AAPIP & Asian Pacific Fund Detroit Community Gathering
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) and Asian Pacific Fund will be in Detroit attending Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees’ National Convening and would like to invite you to a community reception featuring author Curtis Chin. Curtis will be discussing his memoir “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant”, which describes his experiences growing up in Detroit in the 1980s and coming out to his working class immigrant family, all against the political backdrop of the Reagan era, the Vincent Chin murder, and his family’s popular Chinese restaurant. We are also thrilled to be joined by State Senator Stephanie Chang who has played a key role in preserving the vibrancy and history of Detroit’s Chinatown. Please join us for what will be an engaging and thoughtful conversation about identity, belonging, and community preservation.
PGAFF Request for Proposals: Mobilizing Young Leaders Across Washington State
Research shows that when youth are activated around their interests and passions, they gain the confidence and tools needed to engage with each other and the world. The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation supports youth in acting on the issues they care about, and has thus announced $5M in funding for programs empowering young people in Washington State.
“Mobilizing Young Leaders Across Washington State,” will award multi-year grants in the amount of up to $500K, with a total funding of approximately $5 million to new and existing programs. The objective of the RFP is to support new and existing programs in Washington state that develop youth engagement and build youth power through leadership training, civic engagement, and/or youth organizing.
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.
Clocking Inequality: Understanding Economic Inequity, the Wage Gap, and Workplace Experiences of AANHPI women
Clocking Inequality: Understanding Economic Inequity, the Wage Gap, and Workplace Experiences of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Women, is a report that explores how historical shortcomings in data collection efforts have created a disconnect that prevents Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPIs) women and immigrants from achieving economic mobility.
Almost no research to date has explored the individual experiences of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women and gender expansive people with the wage gap in the United States. Despite acknowledged and documented wage gaps for AANHPIs, individual experiences and barriers to equal pay remain poorly understood.
The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) conducted key informant interviews (KIIs) with leaders of AANHPI community organizations and in-depth interviews (IDIs) with AANHPI women and gender expansive people to address this critical research gap.
Candid proudly announces the appointment of Lyle Matthew Kan, Interim President and CEO of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), to its board of trustees. Lyle has previously held leadership roles at CHANGE Philanthropy, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, and the Stonewall Community Foundation, where his leadership focused on strengthening philanthropy's response to pressing social issues.
Earlier this summer, AAPI Women Lead's Executive Director and co-founder Dr. Connie Wun was announced as a member of the inaugural movement-centered Advisory Council for the Collective Future Fund. Connie is joined by Joanne Smith (Girls for Gender Equity), and Monica Ramirez (Justice for Migrant Women), plus donor partners Adeline Azrack (Fondation CHANEL) and Celiné Justice (Pivotal Ventures).
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.
