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FLASH BULLETIN 2005 Year-End Greetings from the President/Executive Director


FLASH BULLETIN
2005 Year-End


Greetings from the President/Executive Director

2005, our 15
th
anniversary, has been an extraordinary year for AAPIP! Our Boston
chapter launched our year-long events last January. Then our chapter leaders across
the country organized in New York, Chicago, Seattle, Minnesota, Washington DC, San
Francisco, culminating with our celebration in Los Angeles. Largely due to the hard
work of many of you coupled with the tremendous leadership of our board, chapter co-
chairs, steering committee members and key allies, AAPIP is now nearly 500 member
strong, 8 chapters and poised to begin re-granting funds within the next year. We are
pleased to manage/host several donor advised funds and giving circles as we incubate
our ability to grow community philanthropy. In the past few months, the Ford
Foundation has granted AAPIP an unprecedented $2.7million to seed the first two years
of the National Gender & Equity Campaign. We look forward to working with you in
2006 as we travel across the country to strategize and roll out the campaign.

This past year was also a time of both sadness and celebration. We bid a fond farewell
to longtime board members Lisa Philp and Bill Ong Hing and to longtime staff member
Rita Bawanan Merzoian. We also have welcomed new board members Danielle Reyes,
Lina Paredes and Jeff Kumataka along with new staff members Phuong Quach, Stefanie
Ritoper and Butler/Koshland Fellow, Sandy Kajiyama. We mourned the passing of our
legal counsel and incredible community advocate, Alan Watahara. We continue to
appreciate his counsel and support as we have entered new areas of work.

Thank you for continuing to work together to build AAPIP as we maintain our
commitment to strengthening our communities and insisting that philanthropy be more
equitable for all.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!







Contents:

I. National News
A. Year in Review: Highlights from 2005
B. Membership Chapter pages and Listserv Update
C. New AAPIP Board Member and New Chapter Co Chairs
D. Staff Update

II. Regional News: 15
th
Anniversary Celebrations

VI. Opportunities, Resources and Events
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I. National News
A. Year in Review: Highlights from 2005

Annual Membership Meeting: San Diego. April 9-10
Along with the Annual Membership Meeting, AAPIP held special 15
th
anniversary
celebration events in conjunction with the Council on Foundations Annual Conference.
On April 9, AAPIP hosted our 15
th
Anniversary Reception followed by a 15
th
Anniversary
Film Screening of Refugee, directed by prominent Asian American filmmaker and
Henry Hampton Award winner Spencer Nakasako. The screening was co-sponsored by
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) and Grantmakers in Film
and Electronic Media (GFEM).

Annual Leadership Retreat: Seattle, Washington, September 16-18
AAPIP Board of Directors and Chapter Leaders had a successful and productive 3-day
retreat in Seattle, which included a Chapter Networking Breakfast, Board and Chapter
meeting at the Chinatown Community Center, a Community Walking Tour of the Seattle
International District and dinner at the Tamarind Tree restaurant
The Community Walking Tour include visits to the Panama Tea Room, Japanese Bath
Houses and Wing Luke Asian Museum.

Asian and Pacific Islander Prisoner Reentry: A Profile of Characteristics,
Issues and Programs:
AAPIP published this groundbreaking study on API Prisoner reentry issues and
opportunities in California and Hawaii, authored by Angela Oh and Dr. Karen Umemoto.
We also held three very successful funder and community briefings on the topic in
Hawaii and in Northern and Southern California. This report is available online at
www.aapip.org
.
Philanthropic Advocacy:
Engaging community and philanthropy to address unmet
needs.
National Gender and Equity Campaign. 2006 will mark the roll out of AAPIPs
groundbreaking National Gender and Equity Campaign. Funded by an initial, two-
year $2.7 million grant from the Ford Foundation, the ten-year campaign will pilot a
national movement-building strategy and capacity-building effort focused on gender
issues impacting women and families. Watch for details soon.
Post 9-11 Civic Engagement Fund. AAPIP will incubate a small San Francisco/Bay
Area collaborative fund focusing on the Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian
communities. The project will create a peer-learning network of grantees and
funders and provide technical assistance and small capacity-building grants to fund
recipients.
Top 20 Research Report. As part of its ongoing research for and about the needs
and issues of APA communities, AAPIP will release a research report in 2006 that
examines giving to APA communities by the countrys 20 largest foundations (in
existence for over 20 years) from 1991-2002.

Community Philanthropy:
Supporting Asian Pacific American giving.

AAPIP Community Action Fund. AAPIP will launch and promote the CAF to
support relief efforts of people affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. CAFs dual
mission is to provide funds to local groups for immediate relief to help families facing
language/cultural challenges as well as support long-term policy/advocacy and
community development efforts.
Giving Circles. AAPIP will continue to promote, support and administer a national
giving circle and regional giving circles across the country as a mechanism to build
community philanthropy.
APA Donors Network. Through customized trainings and partnerships with other
organizations, AAPIP will work to create and incubate the first national network of
APA individual donors.


B. Membership Online Directory, Chapter pages and Listserv Update

Membership Online Directory:
If you have not already done so, please log into the online membership directory from
the AAPIP homepage:
www.aapip.org
and update your membership profile. If youve
misplaced your temporary password, please request it again by emailing
membership@aapip.org
. Once you have logged in, we encourage you to change your
password and make sure your personal information is up to date by clicking 'my account' on the left navigation bar. After updating information, make sure you click 'Update' at
the bottom of the form to save your changes.

The Members' Only portion of the AAPIP website will you to:
Access the most updated member information
Query all the types of information currently available in the
printed directory
Update your individual contact information

Take a minute to check in and explore the new directory. Let us know
what you think.

Chapter pages
Chapter pages are currently under construction, but you can watch the progress as they
become available. See your chapter website by signing in and clicking the chapters
tab on the left hand side. All chapters will have a page which contains:
Chapter co chair contact information
General information about the chapter
Upcoming chapter events
Resources
Local APA organizations

Listservs
We now have listservs directly linked to our online membership directory!

Last week we launched the National AAPIP listserv, which will be used to send you
quarterly Flash Bulletins, monthly job postings and other news from the National office.

You will also automatically be subscribed to your local chapter listserv. This will be used
to send you information on upcoming local events news from your local chapter co
chairs.

To unsubscribe from the listserv, you must sign in to the online directory and update
your profile. For assistance, email
membership@aapip.org
.


C. New AAPIP Board Member and Chapter Co-Chairs

Welcome new Board Member: Jeff Kumataka
Jeff Kumataka joined the AAPIP Board of Directors this fall. At The James Irvine
Foundation, Jeff started as Director of Finance in August 2004, and was appointed
Director of Finance and Administration in November 2004. Jeff came to Irvine with more
than two decades of financial management experience, having most recently served as
controller at The Omidyar Foundation/Omidyar Netwo