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New from AAPIP’s National Gender and Equity Campaign, a guest blog written by Barbara Phillips.  She shares her personal reflections and observations about gender in the social justice movement as a participant and guest at a recent NGEC Organizational Fellowship Program convenings.

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Reflections from the OFP Convening:Gender in the Social Justice Movement

By Barbara Phillips, social justice activist and former Ford Foundation Program Officer for Women’s Rights and Gender Equity

Barbara Phillips with the NGEC OFP Cohort

I arrived in Los Angeles on November 18, 2010, knowing only that I would be in the presence of diverse innovative institutions and individuals attempting to build a national movement for social justice through transformative analysis and work placing gender equity at the core.

At the invitation of Peggy Saika, a dangerous woman because she is a visionary with fierce organizing, executive, and leadership qualities, I was to have the privilege of hanging out with community-based organizations representing Asian American communities convened under the Organizational Fellowship Program (OFP) of the National Gender & Equity Campaign to reflect upon past work and establish goals and plans for 2011. Undergirding the whole thing is AAPIP’s BRIDGE (Building Responsive Infrastructure to Develop Global Equity), a framework for building and strengthening social justice movements through organizational transformation…

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The National Gender & Equity Campaign (NGEC) is the social justice demonstration project incubated by AAPIP since 2008.  Through the NGEC, we rally AAPI and philanthropic communities to leverage, mobilize and activate resources to address systemic inequity.

Our aim is to build a stronger social justice movement by supporting the sustainability of grassroots organizations committed to cultural change in their communities through inclusive social justice values and practices around gender and equity.  We are also committed to developing and testing capacity building approaches and tools to support impacted communities with the means to lead and drive change.

Visit the new blog at www.aapipngec.org for the most updated information or learn more at the NGEC main site www.genderandequity.org.