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March 2024
Empowering Our Values
Dear AAPIPers,
As election season approaches, now is a powerful time to consider not only how we can increase voter engagement in our community, but also what makes a good leader—who do we want in office? Who do we want heading our organizations? Who are we supporting and empowering with our votes, funding, and voices?
In January, AAPI Data published Data Over Stereotypes: The Real Story of AAPI Political Priorities in 2024, a report that ranks what issues AAPI voters care about the most and explains how election campaigns can better address the AAPI community’s concerns. From the report, its apparent that the AAPI community has been done a disservice by the model minority myth and the assumption that issues like education would be most important to AAPI voters.
The disparity between the ways election campaigns have tried to appeal to AAPI voters and the actual issues AAPI voters care about tells a story of missed opportunities through assumptions and unconscious bias. While we may not be able to restructure presidential election campaigns or erase the model minority myth, we can avoid retelling this story in our own organizations by paying attention to who’s in our community and what they need.
CHANGE Philanthropy is currently recruiting for the 2024 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Survey, which will gather organizational information for a report on the sector’s makeup, culture, and climate—participating can be a first step towards better understanding your immediate community and fulfilling its needs. As philanthropic organizations, we understand that knowing what our grant dollars fund is essential, but it’s just as important to acknowledge who and what we’re supporting (or potentially neglecting) internally so we can truly uphold our organizational values.
This election season, let’s do what we can to support the causes we care about through our grantmaking, votes, and application of our values.
This session invited community and philanthropic organizations to discuss the nuts and bolts of advocacy, learn about different advocacy strategies and how they interconnect, and better understand the unique and critical role that philanthropy plays in building community power.
Speakers:
Brittany Schulman, Senior Vice President of Indigenous Programs & Education, Native Americans in Philanthropy
Karla Thomas, Co-Executive Director, Empowering Pacific Islander Communities
Meredith Higashi, Chief of Staff, Philanthropy Northwest
Tuyet Duong, Chief Policy & Government Affairs Officer, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
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.
Community Circle
Sign Up for the 2024 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals (DAPP) Survey!
The DAPP Survey aims to help the philanthropic community better understand its workforce and leadership and allows us to analyze the philanthropic sector’s ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Given our commitment at AAPIP to advancing data equity and data disaggregation, we hope you'll participate.
Attend one of our information sessions to learn more here.
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.
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 today!
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.
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