Programs

AAPIP’s has developed innovative programs in each of our key strategic areas: philanthropic advocacy and community philanthropy. These programs are focused on leveraging, building and accessing greater philanthropic capital for all communities to develop their capacity and infrastructure. Doing so builds our community’s own assets while accessing resources to meet needs.

Philanthropic Advocacy is AAPIP’s work to raise awareness within the field of organized philanthropy about issues facing AAPI communities. It is also our work to compel philanthropy to take action and to support social justice through collaborative funds, briefings and critical, primary research. For more information about AAPIP’s philanthropic advocacy programs, see:

Community Philanthropy is AAPIP’s work and commitment to support and engage individual AAPIs as donors. Our primary goal through community philanthropy is to grow and demonstrate new models of giving through giving circles, which provide for a wide range of donor styles, philosophies and values. For additional information about community philanthropy, see the links below to learn more about giving circles across the country that AAPIP has supported and nurtured:

The trunk: Our operations are represented by the trunk of the tree because these activities ground and sustain us on a day-to-day basis, aligning our values and strategies with concrete tactics. These activities include membership services, leadership training, communications and management.

The branches: Our two principal strategies, (1) building community philanthropy and (2) fostering philanthropic advocacy, are represented by the two main branches of the tree, which feed into each other: Giving is a way to empower communities, and empowered communities give back by working towards systemic social change. From the major branches spring smaller sub-branches of supporting strategies.