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[San Francisco, CA – March 29, 2012] AAPIP (Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy) will today release, Emerging Opportunities: Giving and Participation By Silicon Valley Asian American Communities, at a special program in Silicon Valley hosted at the corporate headquarters of technology leader and business networking innovator, LinkedIn. The program at LinkedIn, which is now at capacity, will be broadcast via livestream at http://www.ustream.tv/linkedin-events, and will include featured remarks by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, New York Times bestselling author of Giving 2.0, and Peggy Saika, President/Executive Director of AAPIP, and publisher of the new report. You can join the livestream broadcast here, today, March 29, at 5:30 pm PT (7:30 pm CT/8:30 pm ET):

The livestream program will feature a release of some of the report’s key findings and recommendations from the qualitative non-randomized study, which include:

• Asian American/Pacific Islanders (AAPI) now number over 1 million people in the region, according to the 2010 US Census, and are now the majority or a significant population center in several key cities like Cupertino (63% AAPI), Fremont (50.6% AAPI) and Santa Clara (37.7% AAPI).
• While aggregated data on the region’s AAPI community indicate high levels of income and educational attainment, the data masks key disparities — as many as 1-in-10 AAPI in the region (11%) have less than a high-school diploma.
• Asian Americans in the region more often apply a business framework, including social entrepreneurship, to social change, and rely often but not consistently, on a metric-driven approach to assessing impact.
• And while family relationships remain a top influence in driving philanthropic behavior, the study reveals that friends and related-networks are a much stronger influence (80% among participants) when it comes to learning about specific causes or giving opportunities.

To download the report click here. For more information or to schedule a briefing on the report, contact Joe L. Lucero, Director, Strategic Communications, at joe@aapip.org.

Join AAPIP (Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy) for release of Emerging Opportunities: Giving and Participation by Silicon Valley Asian American Communities. Learn more about recent research on the motivation and inspiration that drives giving among the fast-growing Asian American community in the Silicon Valley.

Thursday, March 29, 2012
5:30 pm PT – Program & Livestream Broadcast at
http://www.ustream.tv/linkedin-events

The livestream program, coming live from LinkedIn corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley, will include opening remarks from Peggy Saika, President/Executive Director of AAPIP, as well as a presentation of the report’s key findings by principal researcher and author, Sarita Ahuja. The program will also feature key observations from one of the leading voices within philanthropy and on donor impact, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, New York Times bestselling author of Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World, as well as Founder/Chair, Stanford University PACS (Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society).

Special thanks to LinkedIn for their support in hosting this program, to the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for underwriting the research and report, and to the AAPIP–Silicon Valley Chapter.

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to join the program live at LinkedIn, registration is required. Very limited seating remains. Register today at: http://aapipsvsbmarch29.eventbrite.com

This program will also be broadcast via livestream Thursday, March 29, at 5:30 pm PT at: http://www.ustream.tv/linkedin-events, or visit www.aapip.org on March 29 for a direct link.

Join the conversation or follow the program on Twitter by using hashtag #aapipsv.

For more information, please contact Liane Wong, lwong@packard.org, or Noelle Ito,noelle@aapip.org.

By Cynthia Choi, Senior Director, Philanthropic Advocacy, AAPIP

On April 2, 2012 the Obama Administration through the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) will host the first National Philanthropic Briefing focused on the AAPI community.  It is part of the Administration’s efforts to address economic and social challenges facing the AAPI community. AAPIP has been invited by the WHIAAPI to support this historic gathering as part of our commitment to Building Democratic Philanthropy. A core team of AAPIP Trustees and staff will join several hundred philanthropic and Administration leaders to dialogue and strategize on six critical areas: arts and culture, civil and human rights, educational opportunities, health, immigrant integration, housing and economic and community development.  The day will result in initial plans to advance promising public/private partnerships.  We look forward to reporting back on the Briefing outcomes and next steps.

Severe income inequality? An ever-widening gap between the nation’s wealthiest and it’s least, especially among immigrant and refugee communities? Is today’s notion of sacrifice, really ‘shared’? Is this any way to build and sustain a democracy?

And what is philanthropy doing to build the capacity of our communities to ask these questions and build solutions in today’s economy?

On September 17, AAPIP’s national network of giving circle leaders and donors, members, Board of Directors, regional chapter leadership, and leading thinkers in philanthropy and in our communities, will convene in San Francisco for Philanthropy and The Economy: Prioritizing Communities, Not Sacrificing Democracy, to get to the heart of these questions. The program will take a hard look at the role that individual and institutional philanthropy can and should play in the challenges to our democracy given today’s economy.

The program includes a special welcome from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, followed by plenary presentations from Eugene Cho, Executive Director and Co-Founder of One Day’s Wages, and Kent Wong, Director of the UCLA Labor Center and Trustee of The New World Foundation.  Kent will also introduce DREAM student activists who are part of a national campaign fighting for a path to citizenship for undocumented students.

Stay tuned to the AAPIP blog for more coverage of the program following the September 17 plenary, or contact Cynthia Choi, Senior Director, Philanthropic Advocacy, at Cynthia@aapip.org for more information or to attend.