AAPIP Blog

new AAPIP Board Member, Beadsie Woo

Check out a new guest blog from Lillian “Beadsie” Woo about AAPIP’s briefing at the Here and Now Symposium in Washington DC on June 23rd. Beadsie is one of three new members to join our Board of Directors this past April, and is also a member of the Cherry Blossom Giving Circle in the metropolitan Washington DC region.

She is a Senior Associate for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, based in Baltimore, MD, one of the top twenty largest foundations in the country. She is an economist with extensive knowledge of some of the most pressing issues facing immigrant families and low-wage workers.

We’re happy to have the support of both Beadsie in this new role, and the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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We’re happy to have one of our newest Board Members, Jeanie Lee Boehmler, share her observations on the recent community reception and program at The Renwick Gallery, “What is the Role of Philanthropy and Government in Times of Crisis?“

Jeanie is the Director of Education Initiatives at Fight For Children in Washington DC.  Just prior to joining the AAPIP Board this April, Jeanie was the co-chair of the AAPIP Metro DC chapter, and led a number of programs bridging the community and philanthropy, with AAPIP members and our joint affinity group colleagues in the region. Jeanie’s experience with low-income children’s educational issues, her work as an executive director of an immigrant organization, and her knowledge of the Metro DC community are important contributions to AAPIP.

Below are her remarks…

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Also, thanks to Flickr user “banjaxx“‘ for sharing your photos of AAPIP in  DC!

Guest panelists: Steven Lawrence and Danielle Reyes with Joe Lucero

AAPIP would like to thank all the participants at our recent session at the Here and Now Symposium in Washington DC.  We are excited by the level of engagement and dialogue sparked by our presentation, “Growing Opportunities, Enduring Challenges: Data, Trends and Progress in Philanthropic Investment to AAPI Communities”.

(The Here and Now Symposium, held on June 23rd, was a national convening co-presented by DLA Piper, Interpublic Group, the IW Group and AAPIP which focused on branding, marketing and funding issues impacting AAPI nonprofit organizations.)

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AAPIP staff is looking forward to our next AAPIP 2010 next week in Washington DC at the Art of Gaman exhibit.  Delphine Hirasuna, the author and guest curator of the Art of Gaman, will be present for a book signing and to lead a private tour of the artifacts for our guests.

Watch Delphine in this short excerpt video to learn more about the exhibit:

The Washington Post has described the Art of Gaman as “… [giving] texture to the improvised social life and bleak architecture of places such as Manzanar, Minidoka and Rohwer” and “an explosion of the aesthetic impulse”.

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