Happy Pride Month! June is the perfect opportunity to think about intersectionality...
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June 2024
Dear AAPIPers,
Happy Pride Month! The end of AANHPI Heritage Month and beginning of Pride serves as the perfect opportunity to think about intersectionality in philanthropy, activism, and every aspect of our daily lives. We invite you to reflect on the ways we celebrated AANHPI Heritage Month and how we can bring that energy of community and solidarity to other groups that we may or may not be a part of. As philanthropists and as individuals, how do we decide what causes we address and amplify? How can we broaden the horizons of who we empathize with and support so that we may work towards liberation and equity for all?
In the article Freedom is a Collective Struggle, we are reminded that the AAPI political identity was born of solidarity between different Asian subgroups as well as Latino, Black, and Indigenous peoples. Our Pan-Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community was forged out of necessity and shared struggle despite our differences, and our ability to bridge cultural gaps and find common ground is our strength. To continue to grow and fortify our efforts towards racial justice, it's essential that we rely on that strength to connect with and support communities in need, no matter how distant or different from us they may seem. The existence of systemic and institutional oppression - whether in the form of anti-LGBTQ laws, efforts to end race-explicit grantmaking, or genocide and war - harms us all.
In community,
AAPIP
Doubling Down on Race-Explicit Funding
Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) is actively working to advance racial justice and promote, expand, and defend race-explicit grantmaking and programming. We stand by the Atlanta-based Fearless Fund following the recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruling, which blocks for now the Fund’s grantmaking in support of Black women entrepreneurs as the case makes its way through the legal system. American Alliance for Equal Rights brought the suit, claiming that Fearless Fund’s program is racially discriminatory despite the fact that the Fearless Fund was established to address systemic racism, particularly the abysmal underfunding from venture capital of Black women. We join other allies, including ABFE, in our commitment to a just and equitable society where all people have a chance to thrive.
AAPIP Programs
AAPIP Advocacy Training Session 3
Building Community Power: Measuring Advocacy Successes & Impact
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
10 AM PT / 12 PM CT / 1 PM ET
Building on the prior two sessions, this third session will showcase specific advocacy efforts across and beyond the sector. Participants will hear from leaders at foundations, philanthropic serving organizations, and community organizations about how their institutions identify policy and advocacy priorities, center and empower communities, and measure the impact of their work. They will share best practices and strategies that you can replicate at your own organizations.
Speakers:
Bonnie Kwon, Policy Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Cyn Choi, Co-Director, Chinese for Affirmative Action
Kevin Douglas, Senior Director of Programs, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Solidaire Network is delighted to invite philanthropic professionals, donors and funding networks to Lighting Our Path: Funding Movement Protection, a timely two-part series dedicated to sustaining and protecting progressive movements. In these sessions, we will examine how state and vigilante repression threatens movements and funders during this election year and discuss the repressive policies in the pipeline to restrict our right to organize.
Session 2: State of Movement Safety
Date: Wednesday, July 10, 10 am PT / 1 pm ET
Join us in this critical conversation to protect movements and funders as they mobilize grassroots communities taking stands for racial justice, climate justice, gender justice and reproductive justice — and stand on the right side of history.
As the progressive home to AANHPIs in philanthropy, AAPIP’s work is empowered by a 150+ membership network of private, family, community, and corporate foundations, grantmaking networks, individual staff of grantmaking organizations, and other philanthropic institutions. Of our institutional members, we are honored to uplift the AANHPI-led member organizations and their grantee partners who together embody the deeper commitment to dedicating philanthropic support to our communities, led by our communities. Learn more about the organizations and their grantee partners that we uplifted throughout AANHPI Heritage month here.
Published May 22, 2024 by Medium, Jennifer Ching, and Sayu Bhojwani (pictured)
"As a starting point, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) speaking out on Palestine see that our histories are interconnected. This is more than a thread of connection; it’s a powerful intertwining rooted in white supremacy: the enslavement of Black people, erasure of Indigeneous communities through genocide, and Asian Americans’ subjugation and migration through colonialism and imperialism."
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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