Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)Who is AAPIP?
AAPIP is a national network of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) professionals, leaders, and allies working in philanthropy. Founded in 1990, we’re the only national organization built specifically around AANHPI communities in this field. Members find people here who share a professional world and experiences that are valuable to both the philanthropy sector and our communities.
We work in coalition with CHANGE Philanthropy, alongside sister organizations serving Black, Latinx, Native American, and LGBTQ communities in philanthropy. Building power for one community builds power for all of them.
Our Strategic Plan sets four priorities for where the organization is headed: more AANHPI resources and visibility in the sector, a stronger role as the definitive home for AANHPI leaders in philanthropy, deeper cross-racial solidarity, and stronger internal capacity to deliver on all of it.
- Field and Member Education and Engagement: Through field-facing and member-facing education and engagement, AAPIP provides thought leadership, advocacy tools, and relationship building through our research, convenings, webinars, and communications.
- Leadership Impact: Working groups, ad hoc committees, chapters, giving circles, and other philanthropic communities help progressive AANHPI professionals find each other, build belonging, and take action for racial equity and justice.
- Movement Network and Community Building: AAPIP works to move more philanthropic resources toward AANHPI communities. These communities span more than 50 countries and 100 languages, and they still receive a fraction of what the data says they should. We do this work in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other communities of color, because none of us wins this fight alone.
Institutional and individual members make up this network. Their dues fund the work: research, convenings, regional chapters, and the spaces where AANHPI leaders in philanthropy find each other.
Why Join Us
AAPIP’s membership provides professional development and leadership, community building, movement building and advocacy within philanthropy to bring intersectional racial equity that is inclusive of AANHPI communities.
Our membership benefits include (but are not limited to):
Professional Development for Racial Equity and Justice
- Peer learning opportunities
- Leadership opportunities in AAPIP Chapters, AAPIP’s Board, ad hoc committees, working groups or part of convening planning committees
- Access to AAPIP Chapter member only events
- AAPIP National’s member only offerings and program discounts
- Voting for AAPIP’s Board of Directors (designated voting member of institutional members and individual members)
Community Building
- Discounted access to annual meeting/convening; educational programing and access as an AAPIP member to other groups and networks for free or discounted offerings including CHANGE Philanthropy’s UNITY Summit registration fee.
Movement Building and Advocacy within the Sector
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Please contact us at membership@aapip.org.