Welcoming an abundance of new opportunities to understand and connect with community.
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April 2024
Springing into Community
Dear AAPIPers,
This year, April showers are bringing more than May flowers: April is also welcoming an abundance of new opportunities to understand and connect with your community, just in time for Asian Pacific Heritage Month and election season!
If you’re ready to connect more personally with our community, AAPIP can help—we’re in the process of creating affinity spaces to cultivate a stronger sense of community within the diasporas of the AAPIP network. In May, we’ll be facilitating affinity spaces for Southeast Asian, AMEMSA, LGBTQIA+, New Gen (Gen Z, Millennial, Zillennial), and Filipino members, and if you’re interested in getting involved or suggesting another affinity space you’d like to see, you can fill out our interest form.
Lastly, we’re really excited about increasing visibility and driving community support to AANHPI nonprofit organizations through the Give in May Campaign! Throughout May, the community will be able to explore the Give in May platform to learn about all the organizations who are supporting our communities. But before then, we need these organizations to register to participate in the campaign - get your organization registered to participate, or share this with your networks to get the word out! With just 0.20% of philanthropic dollars going to AANHPI-designated organizations, Give in May is a critical campaign for our communities.
This April, we hope you stay dry and that your community receives an abundance of visibility and support.
In community,
AAPIP
AAPIP Programs
AAPIP Advocacy Training Session 2
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET Location: Zoom
Investing in Change: Philanthropic Support for Advocacy & Lobbying
In this session, members will hear from legal experts 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 advocate for issues that they care about. There's still time to join us today and transform your understanding of all that is possible as you build out your advocacy programs!
Missed the first session? Watch the recording here.
Speakers:
Monika Graham, Bilingual Counsel, Bolder Advocacy Program, Alliance for Justice
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 network. Beginning Spring 2024, we will facilitate affinity spaces for folx who hold one or multiple of the following identities:
We’d like to co-facilitate these spaces with our members, so if you’re interested in collaborating with us to create these intentional affinity spaces, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re also taking suggestions for new affinity spaces to potentially launch in 2025. Please share with us your hopes for an affinity space and your interest in co-designing with us!
Please note: this is only available to AAPIP members.
Come Sip with AAPIP!
AAPIP Sips
featuring OiYan Poon, Author of Asian American is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PT / 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT / 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
Join 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 those working to advance racial equity for all through cross-racial solidarity and those invested in individualistic strategies of climbing to the top of a racial hierarchy. She argues that divergent approaches to addressing anti-Asian racism and defining what it means to be Asian American in an increasingly unequal society characterizes the “Asian American affirmative action divide,” and more broadly, AAPI struggles to be recognized and included in projects for racial equity. Faced with the dual responsibilities of advocating for our communities while organizing our communities for more just futures, we invite philanthropic professionals to a deeply reflective space to explore our identities and roles in this important work.
Asian Pacific Community Fund (APCF) and AAPI Data's Give In May campaign is back and registration is now open! The campaign will be held throughout May, with the goal of bringing awareness to the needs of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community while raising funds for organizations like yours. Ready to get a head start on your AAPI Heritage Month celebration? Register before the deadline of April 22nd!
Since the US Supreme Court rejected the use of affirmative action in higher education, its ripple effects have spread across various sectors. Diversity/equity (DEI) programs are being threatened, sued, and restricted in workplaces and in the context of contracts and funds provided by government agencies. Simultaneously, communities around the country are facing restrictions related to reproductive choices, LGBTQIA+ rights, and immigration. To understand how nonprofits are experiencing and responding to these challenges, Building Movement Project is conducting a new survey intended to gather valuable insights and recommendations for the nonprofit sector and funders. The survey only takes 15 minutes to complete—take it today!
Participate in NCFP's Trends in Family Philanthropy 2025 Report!
The National Center for Family Philanthropy is launching its third Trends report that captures and tracks leading trends in the field of family philanthropy. Conducted every five years, this research identifies emerging issues, changes in funding priorities and governance practices, innovative approaches to giving and decision making, and anticipated future giving patterns and practices among US-based philanthropic families nationally. Ultimately, it aims to equip donors with data they can apply to their decision making. More information can be found at the official Trends 2025 webpage.
The Power In Numbers campaign is a national community-led effort aimed at driving lasting policy change and investments in civic engagement that empower Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities — ensuring that they are respected, recognized, and prioritized.
The AANHPI Community Counts Dashboard is the first major activation of Power In Numbers, showcasing critical data and numbers of our AANHPI communities.
AAPIP is in deep appreciation for the ongoing support from our 400+ member network who join us in supporting AANHPI people in philanthropy and working to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at advancing the inclusion, health, and wellbeing of AANHPI communities in the pursuit of a more just and equitable society.