Application Deadline: November 10, 2021 The Opportunity Agenda is now accepting applications from U.S. based artists and cultural strategists for our 2022 cohort of Culture & Narrative Fellows! We Can Thrive Together is an ambitious call to reimagine cultural realities and rewrite dominant narratives around economic justice. Creatives have the visionary power to expand the national ...

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Central Standard Time Hosted by the AAPIP-Chicago Chapter, this one-hour session is designed to provide participants the focused opportunity to learn about who and where AAPIs are located in Chicagoland, consider how underfunding AAPIs contributes toward anti-Black racism and systemic white dominance more generally, and discuss ...

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm (Central Standard Time) RISE Together Fund and Funders for Justice invite you to a funder briefing to learn how Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (BAMEMSA)* communities continue to challenge state-sponsored criminalization 20 years post-9/11. Despite being approximately 1% of the U.S. population, ...

This event has concluded, you may catch the webinar recording below: The Lunar Project is a community building and funding vehicle for Asian American solidarity and participation in the movement for Black and Indigenous-led liberation. During these times of escalated violence against both Asian American and Black communities, The Lunar Project organizes Asian Americans with wealth ...

The Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Fund, with support from Hella Heart Oakland, New Breath Foundation, Women's Foundation California and AAPIP presents Building Community and BIPOC Solidarity. Join Akemi Kochiyama, Jeff Chang, Tamara Payne, and Chinua Thelwell for a virtual conversation about Yuri Kochiyama’s impact and legacy for racial solidarity in today's climate. Panelists will reflect on ...

When: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT What: A virtual conversation with Helen Zia, author, activist, and spokesperson for the Estate of Lily and Vincent Chin and an invitation for philanthropy to meet the moment. Detroit, once the ancestral homelands of the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, is at the center of ...

When: Thursday, June 2, 2022 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT What: In April 2021, a mass shooting left eight dead, including four Sikh Americans, at a Fedex facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, where it was well known that a majority of the workers were part of the Sikh community. Ten years ago this August, a ...

When: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PT AAPIP SF Bay Area chapter, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and Cambridge Associates are proud to sponsor a virtual webinar on the role philanthropy plays in advancing community health needs for the AAPI community. Join our panel of experts in community health, corporate ...

Over 30 years ago, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Native American professionals in philanthropy came together to build a new vision for power in the sector. From this vision, our organizations were born: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) and Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP). In honor of our shared origin story, AAPIP ...

Join AAPIP and Pew Research Center on Wednesday, October 26th at 1:00 pm PDT / 4:00 pm EDT for a two-part webinar and community space!  The webinar will be an exploration of Pew Research Center’s latest documentary and data essay, Being Asian in America, which shares the experiences and views of Asian Americans across 18 ...

This webinar was held on Tuesday, May 2nd, at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. AAPIP, Amplify AAPI, AARP, and NORC at the University of Chicago held this webinar to provide a better understanding of how this groundbreaking AANHPI focused panel for survey research will improve resources, programs, and policies intended to meet the diverse needs ...

The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) launched in the aftermath of the Atlanta spa shootings in 2021 to build a safer and more inclusive future for AAPIs everywhere. Galvanized by findings from AAPIP's report, Seeking to Soar: Foundation Funding for Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities, in which less than 0.2% of philanthropic giving goes to ...

Join Us! Join us for AAPIP's 2023 Annual Meeting and Network Convening on June 13-14 in the SF Bay Area! At a time when the expanding philanthropic sector is the most diverse, there is still little recognition of the role that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NH/PIs) play and need to ...

After the devastating wildfires in Maui, how is philanthropy (local and mainland) responding and what more needs to be done? The Maui Strong Fund was developed as a rapid response to the wildfires in Lahaina. In this webinar co-sponsored by AAPIP and Hawaii Community Foundation, Hawaii Community Foundation's Senior Vice President and Chief Impact Officer, ...

Registration is now open for an upcoming AAPIP funder briefing with the Sikh Coalition: Protecting Sikh Communities from Hate and Transnational Repression. The Sikh Coalition is the largest Sikh civil rights organization in the United States. Founded in the aftermath of 9/11, its initial goal was to provide free legal support for Sikh Americans targeted in ...

https://youtu.be/id-fQ7msiZk The voices of our rapidly-growing and vital Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities are often missing or underrepresented in decision-making across various sectors. We, at Amplify AAPI, AAPIP, and AAPI Data, are thrilled to extend a special invitation to you for an upcoming funder briefing webinar where we will showcase how ...

Advocacy is at the heart of creating systemic and transformative change, yet it is often hard to know where to start or how to engage. Join us for the first session of a four-part training series where we will discuss the nuts and bolts of advocacy, learn about different advocacy strategies and how they interconnect, ...

In this second session of AAPIP’s four-part Advocacy Series, participants will hear from legal experts at Bolder Advocacy about the IRS rules and legal parameters related to advocacy and lobbying for private and public foundations and nonprofits. We will dispel the myth that foundations can’t lobby or fund grantees that engage in lobbying and other forms ...

  As an organization committed to disaggregating ethnicity-level data for our communities and known for providing gathering spaces for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who work in philanthropy, we are excited to announce the kick-off of AAPIP Affinity Spaces! Our intention with facilitating these spaces is to cultivate a stronger sense of community within the diasporas of the AAPIP ...

Kicking off our first AAPIP Sips during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month was author and researcher, OiYan Poon, for an intimate conversation with AAPIP’s members on defining Asian American identities after the Supreme Court ruling on race-conscious college admissions. Poon interviewed Asian Americans engaged in debates over race-conscious admissions, or affirmative action, uncovering tensions between ...

Building on the prior two sessions, this third Advocacy Training session will showcase specific advocacy efforts across and beyond the sector. Participants will hear from leaders at foundations, philanthropic serving organizations, and community organizations about how their institutions identify policy and advocacy priorities, center and empower communities, and measure the impact of their work. They ...

Join us for our fourth and final session in AAPIP’s four-part Advocacy Series! 2024 is a presidential election year and these next few months are shaping up to be critical! Join us in a conversation about what the AANHPI electorate looks like as we head into November, and how philanthropy can support civic engagement efforts ...

As an organization committed to disaggregating ethnicity-level data for our communities and known for providing gathering spaces for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who work in philanthropy, we are excited to announce the kick-off of AAPIP Affinity Spaces! Our intention with facilitating these spaces is to cultivate a stronger sense of community within the diasporas of the AAPIP ...

As an organization committed to disaggregating ethnicity-level data for our communities and known for providing gathering spaces for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who work in philanthropy, we are excited to announce the kick-off of AAPIP Affinity Spaces! Our intention with facilitating these spaces is to cultivate a stronger sense of community within the diasporas of the AAPIP ...

As an organization committed to disaggregating ethnicity-level data for our communities and known for providing gathering spaces for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who work in philanthropy, we are excited to announce the kick-off of AAPIP Affinity Spaces! Our intention with facilitating these spaces is to cultivate a stronger sense of community within the diasporas of the AAPIP ...

As an organization committed to disaggregating ethnicity-level data for our communities and known for providing gathering spaces for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who work in philanthropy, we are excited to announce the kick-off of AAPIP Affinity Spaces! Our intention with facilitating these spaces is to cultivate a stronger sense of community within the diasporas of the AAPIP ...

As an organization committed to disaggregating ethnicity-level data for our communities and known for providing gathering spaces for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who work in philanthropy, we are excited to announce the kick-off of AAPIP Affinity Spaces! Our intention with facilitating these spaces is to cultivate a stronger sense of community within the diasporas of the AAPIP ...

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Connie Wun, Co-Founder of AAPI Women Lead, and learn more about how they are working to shift the narrative around violence, centering community voices and storytelling through their intergenerational participatory action research, and the role you can play in supporting community-based advocacy through AAPI Women Lead’s launch of their Research and Education for Advocacy ...

At AAPIP, we remain committed to centering community care and wellness into the movement work of our chapters, networks, and greater philanthropic ecosystem. Being seen, heard, and valued by each other as AANHPI community members is especially critical in cultivating this work together.   We recognize that AANHPIs working in philanthropy often carry the dual burden ...

In the past year, more than 40,000 Palestinians have lost their lives and over 2.3 million Palestinians have been displaced. For decades, countless lives in the Middle East have been deeply impacted by discrimination, dispossession, and violence. With the October 7th attack, taking of hostages, and heartbreaking devastation in Gaza, the philanthropic sector has struggled ...

Series Description: Following the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 decision that effectively bans affirmative action and race-conscious admissions practices in higher education, there has been an onslaught of attacks to DEI programs, including over 100 legal challenges to programs related to internships, grantmaking, scholarships, and other policies. With the new administration in January 2025, we expect ...

Series Description: Following the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 decision that effectively bans affirmative action and race-conscious admissions practices in higher education, there has been an onslaught of attacks to DEI programs, including over 100 legal challenges to programs related to internships, grantmaking, scholarships, and other policies. And the series of executive orders and agency actions ...