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blog post written by Laila Mehta, Associate Director, AAPIP Civic Engagement Fund

On November 9th and 10th, the Civic Engagement Fund for Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian Communities held its inaugural Convening for the 2010 Program at Preservation Park in Oakland. I am still feeling the buzz from the energy and enthusiasm that developed throughout the day and a half convening!

AAPIP CEF convenings

Participants from the 17 community partner organizations were present and engaged, and through the facilitated and breakout sessions, the organizations were able to start learning more about each other, and initiated the process of community building that this program is based on. As was hoped, the participants’ openness encouraged a safe space for sharing stories that resonated and contributed to a feeling of shared experience among the range of organizations.

“It feels good to create a space and start dialogue with existing
and new partners around issues that are important to us.”
- CEF partner

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From AAPIP’s Staff and Board of Directors:

Thank you for participating in the AAPIP National Philanthropy Summit on October 20, 2010. In eleven cities across the country, AAPIP members, friends, philanthropy and community partners, giving circle donors and members, and allies all gathered to celebrate AAPIP’s twenty years of advocating for communities and in philanthropy.

Thank you to everyone – nearly 1,250 of you – for being a part of the celebration whether you were in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Houston, Seattle, Silicon Valley/South Bay, Los Angeles, or joining us on the webstream from your home, offices or even around the world (including Zihuatanejo, Mexico!).

If you missed The Summit, please stay tuned for a link available at www.aapip.org to the taped/archived footage of this historic gathering. Look for more coverage of The Summit on Twitter @aapip, or search the hashtag #aapip2010. You can also find additional coverage, and add your own thoughts about The Summit here on the blog, on our Facebook page and our Flickr group.  We would love to hear from you.

Finally, many thanks to AAPIP chapter leadership and the scores of volunteers across the country who were the most important part of making The Summit a celebration for over a thousand supporters in our eleven host cities across the country and in smaller gatherings everywhere.

Stay tuned for so much more to come as we join together in answering our community’s call to action and in Building Democratic Philanthropy.

With Gratitude,
The Board of Directors and Staff of AAPIP
(Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy)

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Thanks to all our AAPIP friends who photographed and sent in hundreds of photos from the celebrations in San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Metro DC, Boston, Philadelphia, LA, Minnesota, and Seattle!  It’s been a delight for us AAPIPpers to see your smiling faces and we really do feel like everyone around the country was connected in spirit (and through technology and social media too!).

Click the play button below to see the slideshow:

Did you also attend and take pictures?  Please send them to us, or better yet,  join AAPIP’s Flickr group to add any other photos you took!  Friends who posted things on Twitter and Facebook  welcome to join in!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/aapip

AAPIP – Building Democratic Philanthropy

In case you missed the “world premiere” of our new video during the live webcast of AAPIP’s National Philanthropy Summit on October 20th 2010, we’ve posted it to YouTube. Check it out!

Be part of a movement in organized and individual philanthropy that begins with the vision of communities as the starting place for maximizing their potential. Leverage individual action for collective good. AAPIP.org – Building Democratic Philanthropy.

The National Philanthropy Summit is today, October 20th!

Starting promptly at 4PM Pacific/ 6pm Central /7PM Eastern time,
click the link below to watch the live webstream in progress:

http://www.livestream.com/justgoodtv

Follow along on Twitter @AAPIP
#AAPIP2010

We are pleased that Kathy Im, Director, General Program, of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and immediate past chair of the AAPIP Board of Directors, has initiated and will lead the AAPIP Leadership Council. Following the AAPIP National Summit on October 20 and in the coming months, she will be reaching out to many of you in the field and in our communities to join this historic formation.

The Leadership Council will serve as a strategic sounding board for us to amplify our work within the field and to broaden our networks. It will be an important part of charting our path as we move into the future. We hope that many of you will be a part of it in the months and years ahead, and that you’ll join AAPIP in finding new ways of building democratic philanthropy.

For more on the development of AAPIP Leadership Council, click to watch Kathy Im’s special message about the Council.