AAPIP Blog

We’re grateful to Lisa Philp, former AAPIP Board Chair, and beginning in October, Vice President for Strategic Philanthropy and Director of GrantCraft of The Foundation Center, for sharing her observations about a career in philanthropy in this special blog post. To learn more about Lisa, be certain to click the link below for a full biography.

Lisa Philp

On June 27, 2011, the New York AAPIP chapter hosted an informal career talk with two AAPIP veterans: Lisa Philp [read bio] and Jessica Chao. Lisa and Jessica were asked to describe their journeys in philanthropy including significant milestones and lessons learned along the way.

Lisa formerly served as Chair of AAPIP and was a long-time board member and chapter co-chair before that. She has accepted a new position at the Foundation Center: Vice President for Strategic Philanthropy and Director of GrantCraft. She starts in October, and we look forward to working with her in this new capacity.

With a tip of the hat to all of you Spinal Tap fans, Lisa wrote up an abbreviated version of the 11 career lessons she discussed at the recent session. Click to read more. »

By Lyn Hunter, Senior Program Manager, Philanthropy Northwest / Co-Chair, AAPIP Puget Sound Chapter

On July 7, AAPIP Puget Sound co-sponsored a reception welcoming the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) and Chris Lu, President Obama’s Assistant and Cabinet Secretary to Seattle.  Together, we gathered not as individual groups with our own agendas but as a community with a vested stake in sustainability issues particularly in the API community. How can we promote sustainable communities? How do we encourage innovation and support economic growth? According to the WHIAAPI blog, the AAPI population grew faster than any other race in this country over the last 10 years – a whopping 43 percent. This population explosion creates an urgent need to get AAPIs to the table and engage us in the national conversation.

As Martha Choe, Chief Administrative Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (and former Chair of the White House Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islanders and AAPIP member) remarked, it’s through these kind of convenings with the private sector, elected and public officials, community members and philanthropy that we can continue to have civil dialogues about topics like sustainability that affect all of us.

Top left to right:
Richard Woo, The Russell Family Foundation
Martha Choe, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Lorna Chin, The Woodland Park Zoo
Shiho Fuyuki, PRI Makers Network/Philanthropy Northwest
Pi’ilani Pang, The Marguerite Casey Foundation, AAPIP Puget Sound Co-Chair
Chris Lu, Assistant to President Obama and Cabinet Secretary
Lyn Hunter, Philanthropy Northwest, AAPIP Puget Sound Co-Chair

Click the slideshows below to view photos from AAPIP’s events in Philadelphia on April 9th – 10th: AAPIP Board of Directors Meeting, AAPIP Annual Membership Meeting & Community Panel, and AAPIP Chapter Leadership Session.  Many thanks again to all the AAPIPpers from all 10 chapters across the country who joined us to deepen our collective work in Building Democratic Philanthropy!

This is the Part 2 recording of the Live Webcast filmed on April 10, 2011 at the AAPIP Annual Membership Meeting and Community Program in Philadelphia.

This video covers the panel discussion with guests from Philadelphia area foundations and giving circles.

AAPIP – Annual Membership Meeting/Community Program (Part 2 of 2)

This part of the event featureed the Asian Mosaic Fund, one of AAPIP’s giving circle partners, which has played a growing role in supporting many of the community-based organizations in Philadelphia.  The Fund has been an important part of a growing national movement for the development of giving circles as a critical source of philanthropic capital for our communities.

The program featured AAPIP’s Giving Circle campaign, and a panel discussion with:

• Helen Cunningham | Executive Director,  Samuel Fels Fund
• Peggy Saika | President/Executive Director,  AAPIP
• Mailee Walker | Chair,  Asian Mosaic Fund
• Ana Lisa Yoder | Community Impact Manager,  The Philadelphia Foundation
• Moderated by Fernando Chang-Muy |  Trustee, Wells Fargo Regional Foundation

Filmed by: ComponentGeek.com and students from the Asian Arts Initiative’s Tech Apprenticeship Program in Philadelphia which teaches youth and young adults tech skills in live theater and live event filmmaking.

This is the Part 1 recording of the Live Webcast filmed on April 10, 2011 at the AAPIP Annual Membership Meeting and Community Program in Philadelphia.

This video includes the formal meeting activities geared toward AAPIP members, and also includes  presentations from each of the 10 AAPIP chapters across the nation about their regional activities.

AAPIP – Annual Membership Meeting/Community Program (Part 1 of 2)

Filmed by: ComponentGeek.com and students from the Asian Arts Initiative’s Tech Apprenticeship Program in Philadelphia which teaches youth and young adults tech skills in live theater and live event filmmaking.