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Introduction

AAPIP’s First 15 YearsGrassroots Beginnings: 1990-1994Establishment & Growth: 1995-1997Becoming More Strategic: 1998-2001Advancing Community & Philanthropy: 2002-2005

AAPIP Timeline

AAPIP People: 1990-2005Board ChairsBoard MembersChapter Co-ChairsStaff

AAPIP Service &Program Highlights: 1990-2005PublicationsProgramsSpecial ContributorsPhoto Captions

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Founded in 1990, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) is a national membership and

advocacy organization dedicated to improving Asian Pacific American communities through philanthropy.

AAPIP members include foundations, staff and trustees of grantmaking organizations, and nonprofit

organizations in eight regional chapters in the United States. AAPIP engages APA communities and philanthropy

to address unmet needs; serves as a resource for and about APA communities; supports and facilitates giving

by and to APA communities; and incubates new ideas and approaches for social justice philanthropy.

© 2005 by Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy. All Rights Reserved.

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Celebrating 15 Years of Advancing Community and Philanthropy

Since its inception in 1990, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy(AAPIP) has been dedicated to improving Asian Pacific American (APA) communities through philanthropy. AAPIP has worked in many ways to advanceAPA communities so that they are stronger, healthier and more vibrant; and toadvance philanthropy by making it more inclusive, just, equitable and accountable.

Over the past 15 years, AAPIP has expanded its programs to support the workof APAs in philanthropy, encourage APA giving, become a resource for donorsand communities, and serve as an incubator of new ideas and approaches forsocial justice philanthropy. AAPIP has released many notable publications high-lighting pressing issues in immigrant and refugee communities, and grown from a39-member volunteer group to a professionally staffed membership and advocacyorganization with eight regional chapters and more than 400 members.

This commemorative booklet celebrates AAPIP’s first 15 years by highlighting the organization’s many accomplishments and recognizing the many people whomade those accomplishments possible.

But as we celebrate our progress we also recognize that we have a long way togo to fully engage philanthropy in improving the lives of all Asian Pacific Americans.We encourage everyone who shares our commitment and passion for developingstrong Asian Pacific American communities to join us in both marking AAPIP’s 15thanniversary and continuing our work to advance community and philanthropy.

Peggy Saika Cristina RegaladoPresident/Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors

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of Advancing Community and Philanthropy

Grassroots Beginnings: 1990-1994In 1990, the number of Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) on U.S. foundation staffs had grown slightly but still represented a tiny fraction of people working in philanthropy. APAs working at foundations often found themselves feeling isolated in a field that did not reflect their culture, values and interests.

A small group of APA foundation staff decided to take action to improve philan-thropy by and for APAs. On October 19, 1990, the group met at the offices ofthe Levi Strauss Foundation in San Francisco and founded Asian Americans/PacificIslanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) as an association to support APAs working inphilanthropy and to increase the number of APAs in philanthropy. The neworganization was led by co-chairs Kavita Ramdas of The John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation and Stella Shao of the Marin Community Foundation.

AAPIP incorporated in 1991 and immediately tapped an unmet need in philanthro-py, doubling its membership between 1991 and 1993. “We found comfort in the‘safe space’ that AAPIP provided to meet other APAs who were interested in thesame issues and facing the same challenges as foundation staff,” says Lisa Philp, a for-mer AAPIP board chair who joined the organization shortly after it was created.

From the start AAPIP established a strong regional chapter structure that remainsfairly unique among national grantmaker affinity groups today. AAPIP’s NortheastRegion, Midwest Region and Northern California Chapters began in 1990, andthe Southern California Chapter formed in 1994.

AAPIP’s membership structure was also unique among affinity groups for its inclusionof both people working as grantmakers and those working in community-basedorganizations. From day one AAPIP sought to bring together philanthropic

AAPIP’s First 15 Years

“For too long, APA communities were ignored, overlooked and undervaluedby mainstream philanthropy. Over 15 years, AAPIP has worked hard tobridge that gap. It hasn’t disappeared, of course, but it has narrowed. Itmakes me appreciate the vision of the original founders and the energy oftoday’s leaders.” Jon Funabiki, Ford Foundation

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organizations with APA organizationsas equal partners to solve problemsand build stronger APA communities.

For the first three years,AAPIP was run by volunteers and consultants outof San Francisco. During that timeAAPIP started many of the programsand services that remain its hallmarkofferings today. 1991 marked AAPIP’sfirst participation in the Council onFoundations (COF) Annual Conference,where it sponsored a panel on racerelations in APA communities. Thatsame year AAPIP held its first AnnualMembership Meeting, in San Francisco,and the event is now a highlight ofAAPIP’s annual programming.

In 1992, AAPIP began what wouldbecome another core component of its member service–research andinformation–when it published thepioneering report “Invisible and InNeed: Philanthropic Giving to AsianAmericans and Pacific Islanders.”It revealed that the APA populationsuffered from pockets of severepoverty, hate crimes, health problemsand domestic violence, and that only a small number of foundations wereinvolved in grantmaking to directlybenefit APAs. As editors,Tani Takagiand Stan Yogi played key roles in conducting research and producingthis publication.

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“AAPIP has played animportant bridging role

in local communities, connecting local groups

to foundations and raising the profile ofemerging issues and

changing demographics.”Sylvia Yee, Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

Establishment & Growth: 1995-1997AAPIP’s quick acceptance and growth made it clear that it was here to stay. Theorganization’s first few formative years of operation were followed by a phase ofsignificant organizational establishment and growth.

AAPIP reached a key milestone in late 1994 when it hired Marjorie Fujiki as its firstexecutive director and first staff member, followed in spring 1995 by the hiring of itssecond staff person, Joe Lucero, as program associate. Fujiki led the establishmentof AAPIP’s first national office, in New York City, with a field office in California.

AAPIP reached another milestone in 1995 when its membership ranks passedthe 100-member mark for the first time. Membership grew more than 70 percent between 1993 and 1995, increasing from 73 to 124 members.

“We’ve moved from being a great idea whose time had come to becoming astrong organization with talented staff and a committed board,” wrote then-boardchair Sylvia Yee in a 1996 AAPIP newsletter.

This establishment phase was marked by a significant increase in AAPIP’s educational programming and its first serious forays into policy issues.

In 1995, AAPIP entered the public policy discussion on the passage of Proposition187 to deny public benefits to undocumented immigrants in California. AAPIPco-sponsored briefings on Proposition 187 with Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) in San Francisco, Chicago and New York. That year AAPIP also released its sec-ond major report, “Reweaving Our Social Fabric: Challenges to the GrantmakingCommunity After Proposition 187,” co-published with Grantmakers Concernedwith Immigrants and Refugees and HIP. The report explained the primary factorscontributing to the country’s intense focus on immigrants, and described howfunders could provide support for immigrant issues and needs.

As demonstrated by its involvement with the Proposition 187 issue, AAPIP’sestablishment phase marked an increasing collaboration with other national grant-

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maker affinity groups, particularly eightother identity-based organizationsknown as the Joint Affinity Groups(JAG): Association of Black FoundationExecutives, Disability FundersNetwork, Funders for Lesbian andGay Issues, Hispanics in Philanthropy,Native Americans in Philanthropy,National Network of Grantmakers,Women & Philanthropy and Women’sFunding Network.

As a co-founder, AAPIP had workedwith JAG and other affinity groupssince its inception in 1990, but tookthis involvement to a deeper level during the second half of the 1990s.In 1995, AAPIP participated with JAGon their first joint programming for theCOF Annual Conference, and they collaborated again at the 1997 COFconference in Hawai’i.

The Hawai’i conference represented asignificant new leadership challenge forAAPIP. Given the large APA populationin Hawai’i, the conference was a uniqueopportunity for AAPIP to connect thelargest national annual gathering ofgrantmakers to the issues of APA pop-ulations, and to continue those connec-tions to the larger APA population onthe continental United States.

AAPIP’s planning for the Hawai’i con-ference was two years in the making.The organization used the 1996 COFconference in Atlanta to help framethe conversation about philanthropicopportunities the following year inHawai’i. AAPIP planned or co-organ-ized several programs at the Atlantaconference, including a program onthe issues and history of Hawai’i thatit transcribed and published as the

report “He Alo A He Alo: Face toFace with the Real Hawai’i.” AAPIPdistributed the report to grantmakersin advance of the Hawai’i conferenceto help overcome some funders’reluctance to attend the conference.

AAPIP executive director MarjorieFujiki and several AAPIP memberswere involved in planning committeesfor the Hawai’i conference. AAPIPalso developed two sessions on raceand philanthropy for the conference.

The establishment phase was alsomarked by a significant increase inAAPIP’s research and informationservices. Following the Proposition187 and “He Alo A He Alo” reports,AAPIP released two major reports in1997 to add to its growing body ofknowledge designed to educate thephilanthropy field about the needs andissues of APA communities.

The first report,“The Invisible Crisis:The Educational Needs of Asian PacificAmerican Youth,” outlined specific areasin which philanthropy could play a lead-ing role in addressing the educationneeds of APA youth and families.AAPIPfollowed the release of the report witha concerted and rigorous policy-briefingschedule in cities across the country toopen up a dialogue among fundersabout the report’s findings.

In 1997 AAPIP also released the report“Making the Invisible Visible: Strategiesto Increase the Participation of AsianPacific Americans in the PhilanthropicSector,” which explored factors thathad prevented APAs from fully partici-pating in the activities and institutionsof organizational philanthropy.

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Becoming More Strategic: 1998-2001Having become a firmly established organization, AAPIP began 1998 guided by itsfirst strategic plan, which AAPIP board and staff developed through a yearlongstrategic planning process. As AAPIP’s 1997 Annual Report noted:

“Our strategic planning enabled us to see that our past work went far in bringingour issues to the table and in establishing a level of access. We are now organiza-tionally at the point where we can convert our knowledge and positioning, andmove to the next level of effectiveness.”

In the new strategic plan, AAPIP changed its mission from “focusing attention with-in American philanthropy on issues affecting Asian Pacific Islander communities” toa new mission of “transforming philanthropy to include Asian Pacific Islanders andserve the community’s needs.” The change reflected AAPIP’s desire to be moreassertive in its work and to more strongly define what it wanted to achieve.

As part of its new strategic direction, in 2000 AAPIP launched two new mulit-faceted, multi-year initiatives:The New Century Initiative, to engage AAPIP’s members in increasing the understanding of and philanthropic resources to APA communities; and The Philanthropy and Giving Initiative, to increase APA participation and leadership in philanthropy.

AAPIP’s leadership role rose to a new level during this strategy phase. On thenational policy level, AAPIP’s executive director Moira Shek and eight other APAleaders in philanthropy were among the 200 guests invited by The President andThe First Lady to attend the historic White House Conference on Philanthropy inOctober 1999. The following year AAPIP hosted meetings in California and NewYork to inform the work of the President’s Advisory Commission on AsianAmericans and Pacific Islanders.

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“My involvement with AAPIP provided me with some ofmy most valuable leadership opportunities within theworld of philanthropy. I was able to get engaged andtake on strong leadership roles sooner than I may havebeen afforded in other settings.”Lori VillarosaLeadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund

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AAPIP also exhibited new nationalleadership in the philanthropy field during this time. Two AAPIP membersserved on the COF board of directors,and Moira Shek served on COF’s 2001 Annual Conference Committee.In 2000, AAPIP co-sponsored the first-ever COF conference session tofeature diverse donors of color.

As AAPIP became more strategic, itsorganizational structure continued togrow and become more established.AAPIP moved its national office from New York City to San Franciscoin 1999, and welcomed two new regional chapters - the MidwestRegion/Minnesota Chapter in 1999and the Northeast Region/GreaterMassachusetts Chapter in 2000 - and a new member “Cluster” inSoutheast Pennsylvania.

During this period AAPIP continuedto improve and expand member serv-

ices. It advanced its use of technologythrough such offerings as a nationallistserve for members, regional list-serves for each chapter, and a newwebsite. AAPIP also improved its“Flash Bulletin” member newsletterand compiled a Mentorship Program Guide to help chaptersdevelop mentorship programs. Inprogramming, AAPIP held its FirstAnnual Leadership Retreat in San Francisco in 2000 and its firstgathering of APA trustees in 2001.

All this activity resulted in a stunninggrowth in AAPIP’s membership. In1999, AAPIP passed the 200-membermark for the first time, and just oneyear later it passed the 300-membermark – a two-year increase of more than 135 percent. The year1999 marked another membershipmilestone for AAPIP, as it welcomedthe first two APA-led family founda-tions as members.

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“AAPIP’s impact has beensignificant in providingongoing support to APAsworking in philanthropy,helping to increase the number of APA professionals in the field,and educating fundersabout the issues facingAPA communities.”Lina ParedesLiberty Hill Foundation

Advancing Community & Philanthropy: 2002-2005AAPIP began 2002 with a strengthened operational infrastructure and a renewedcommitment to focusing its strategic direction.

Following the departure of Moira Shek in 2001, AAPIP started off 2002 under thenew leadership of president/executive director Peggy Saika, who was a longtime AAPIPboard member, a trustee of several foundations, and prominent community activist.Saika led a fully staffed national operation that had grown to five staff positions.

In April 2003, AAPIP and Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy and Hispanics inPhilanthropy began to share office space in San Francisco in order to build the col-laborative efforts between the three organizations. The multicultural collaborativewas founded on the core belief that creating a diverse philanthropic center canfacilitate strategic and cross-cultural thinking on current issues in the field of philan-thropy including new grantmaking initiatives, philanthropic disparities and trends,diversity and accountability practices, and leadership development opportunities.

AAPIP’s membership growth continued unabated between 2002 and 2004. Itadded its seventh and eighth regional chapters: Northwest Region/Puget SoundChapter in 2002 and Northeast Region/Greater Metro DC Chapter in 2004.AAPIP membership passed the 400 mark in 2004, and the organization endedthe year with 418 members including 51 institutional members.

AAPIP continued to grow its research capacity to shed new light on critical issuesin the field. In 2003, AAPIP’s Northern California Chapter released “NewChallenges for Bay Area Philanthropy: Asian & Pacific Islander Communities,”which was the first report to analyze 2000 Census data for the Bay Area’s APAcommunities. The Minnesota Chapter’s “Asian & Pacific Islander MinnesotaProfile” and the Massachusetts Chapter’s “A Report on Asian Americans inMassachusetts: 2000 U.S. Census Data for the State, Boston, Lowell, and Quincy,”also served as key demographic profiles of regional APA communities.

In 2004, AAPIP released the timely report “Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim andSouth Asian Communities in the San Francisco Bay Area: An Introduction toGrantmakers,” which it co-published with Grantmakers Concerned with

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Immigrants and Refugees. The reporthighlighted some of the issues, chal-lenges and concerns facing Arab,Middle Eastern, Muslim and SouthAsian communities post-September11, and offered concrete recommen-dations to foundations interested indeveloping effective programs andstrategies to better meet these com-munities’ needs.

AAPIP’s biggest new initiative duringthis period was the Asian AmericanWomen’s Project, launched in 2002.The initiative was based on findingsfrom the 2002 book “Asian AmericanWomen: Issues, Concerns, andResponsive Human and Civil RightsAdvocacy,” authored by Lora Jo Fooand published by The Ford Foundation.

In recognition of the book’s call toaction, AAPIP launched a book tour in 2003 consisting of 18 briefings andthree women’s circles in nine citiesand eight states. The goals of thebook tour were to educate fundersand connect communities working onthe key issues outlined in the book,including economic justice, health,trafficking, domestic violence, repro-ductive freedom and welfare reform.

A planning grant from The FordFoundation helped AAPIP initiate shortplanning meetings with community-based organizations across the countryto share research findings and encour-age conversations about what it wouldtake to stimulate a national APAwomen’s movement.These meetingsand the book tour crystallized the cen-tral challenge facing APA communities:they have weak infrastructure andinstitutions relative to counterparts in

other communities due to consistentunder-investment. Four key elementswere repeatedly identified as prioritiesof a comprehensive capacity-buildingeffort: direct organizing, leadershipdevelopment, media/communicationsand policy advocacy. AAPIP thenmoved from the initial planning phaseof the Asian American Women’sProject to a ten-year action plan calledthe National Gender and EquityCampaign. The Campaign includes thedevelopment of a collaborative fundfor a national movement building strategy and capacity building effortfocused on gender issues that impactwomen and families.

Based on these findings, at the end of2003 AAPIP board and staff began astrategic planning process to helpdefine a “social justice philanthropy”mission in order to leverage significantresources to help build the capacity ofAPA organizations, build leadershipand skills in APA communities andimprove the democratic participationfor APA women.

AAPIP entered 2005 committed tobuilding on its work with the NationalGender and Equity Campaign and itsnew social justice philanthropy mission,while continuing to strengthen its oper-ations, expand and improve its servicesto members, and incubate new ideas.

“2005 is a time of both celebrationand renewal for AAPIP,” says Saika.“We will celebrate our past achieve-ments over the past 15 years whilewe re-energize for the challengesahead in the next 15 years to addressthe many unmet needs in Asian PacificAmerican communities.”

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AAPIP Timeline1990 • AAPIP founded by a group of volunteers in October 1990

• Northeast Region, Midwest Region and Northern California Chapters established

1991 • AAPIP incorporates• First Annual Membership Meeting, “Advancing the Asian Agenda,” in San Francisco

1992 • Release of first publication, “Invisible and in Need: Philanthropic Giving to AsianAmericans and Pacific Islanders”

1994 • First executive director and staff member, Marjorie Fujiki, is hired• First national office established, in New York• Southern California Chapter established

1995 • AAPIP membership passes the 100 mark• COF conference in Hawai’i features heavy AAPIP involvement

1996 • First Flash Bulletin distributed

1997 • First strategic plan completed

1998 • First annual report published, for 1997

1999 • AAPIP offices moved from New York City to San Francisco• AAPIP participates in White House Conference on Philanthropy• Midwest Region/Minnesota Chapter established• First APA-led foundations join AAPIP • AAPIP membership passes the 200 mark

2000 • Northeast Region/Greater Massachusetts Chapter established• First AAPIP website launched• First Annual Leadership Retreat held, in San Francisco• AAPIP membership passes the 300 mark

2002 • Northwest Region/Puget Sound Chapter established

2003 • AAPIP conducts book tour for “Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns,and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy”

2004 • Northeast Region/Greater Metro DC Chapter established

2004 • AAPIP membership passes the 400 mark

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AAPIP People 1990-2005Board ChairsKavita Ramdas 1992 Jon Funabiki 1998-1999Stella Shao 1992 Lori Villarosa 2000Adrienne Pon 1993-1995 Lisa Philp 2001-2003Sylvia Yee 1996-1997 Cristina Regalado 2004-2005

Board MembersJocelyn Ancheta The McKnight Foundation 2000-presentRini Banerjee The Overbrook Foundation 2002-presentJessica Chao Consultant 1997-2000Annette Chin DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund 1994-1996Gerry Ching The McInerny Foundation 1995-1998Malika Dutt The Ford Foundation 1996David Fukuzawa The Skillman Foundation 1994Jon Funabiki The Ford Foundation 1996-2002Laurie Garduque The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 1993-1999Kaying Hang Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation 2002-presentBill Ong Hing Rosenberg Foundation 1999-presentKathy Im The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 2004-presentJames Jeong The San Francisco Foundation 1991-1994Sara Ying Kelley The San Francisco Foundation 2000-2003Amber Khan The Communications Network 2004-presentStewart Kwoh Los Angeles Methodist Urban Foundation 1992-1998Irene Lee Eugene & Agnes Meyer Foundation 1991C.J. Liu Rosenblatt Social Venture Partners International 2004-presentHanmin Liu W.K. Kellogg Foundation 2001Joe Lumarda California Community Foundation 1994-2000Alan Okada Citigroup 1998-2004Lisa Philp J.P. Morgan & Co. 1999-presentAdrienne Pon Pacific Bell 1992-1998Kavita Ramdas The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 1991Cristina Regalado The California Wellness Foundation 2000-presentBeth Rosales Funding Exchange 1991-1994Peggy Saika The New World Foundation 1992-1998Russell Sakaguchi ARCO Corporation 1991Stella Shao Marin Community Foundation 1991Unmi Song The Joyce Foundation 1992-1998Andrew Sun Anheuser-Busch Companies 1991Tani Takagi Ms. Foundation for Women 1991-1997Ruby Takanishi Foundation for Child Development 1992-1998Duong Trinh Funding Exchange 2004-presentLori Villarosa C.S. Mott Foundation 1996-2002Jai Lee Wong The California Endowment 1998-2004Richard Woo Levi Strauss Foundation 1997-2000Timothy Wu Small Change Foundation 2002-presentDianne Yamashiro- 1991,

Omi Koret Foundation 1996-1999Sylvia Yee Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund 1992-1999

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Midwest Region/Chicago ChapterRenee Tsai Robert McCormick Tribune Foundation 1995-1996Ted H. Chen The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation;

Big Idea Foundation 1996-1999Serena Moy Chicago Foundation for Women 1999-2002Ron Mori Ameritech/SBC 2000-2003Kaberi Banerjee

Murthy Lloyd A. Fry Foundation 2003Kathy Im The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 2002-2005Christine Plautz Girl’s Best Friend Foundation 2004-present

Midwest Region/Minnesota ChapterSharon Ramirez Women’s Funding Network 1998-1999Jocelyn Ancheta The McKnight Foundation 1999-2001Lee-Hoon Benson Bush Foundation 2000-2001Penelope Haru

Snipper Foundation Consultant 2001-2004Kari Suzuki Otto Bremer Foundation 2001-2004Claire J. Chang The Saint Paul Foundation 2004-presentKayva Yang Hispanics in Philanthropy 2004-present

Northeast Region/Greater Massachusetts ChapterShirley Mark Caroline & Sigmund Schott Foundation 2000-2002Cathy Cha The Hyams Foundation, Inc. 2000-2003Annie Chin-Louie United Way of Massachusetts Bay 2003-2004Hazel Kim John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. 2003-presentCuong Hoang Hunt Alternatives Fund 2004-present

Northeast Region/Greater Metro DC ChapterDanielle M. Reyes Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation 2004-presentMichael P. Lee Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Inc. 2004-present

Northeast Region/Greater New York ChapterLisa Philp New York Regional Association of Grantmakers 1995Ray Colmenar The Rockefeller Foundation 1996-1998Monona Yin The F.B. Heron Foundation 1997-1999Deepa Purohit The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation 1998-2000Elizabeth Wong The Freeman Foundation 2000-2003Wingson Wong Chase Manhattan Bank 2000-2003Rini Banerjee The Overbrook Foundation 2003-2005Denise L.C.Yap Avon Foundation 2003-presentAlison Yu The Hearst Foundation, Inc. 2003-present

Northeast Region/Southeast Pennsylvania ClusterFernando Chang-Muy University of Pennsylvania 1999Gerry Wang William Penn Foundation 1999June O’Neill Leeway Foundation 2000

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Northern California ChapterCarmelita Tursi Independent Consultant 1995Winnie Chu Community Foundation of Silicon Valley 1996-1999Donald Jen Marin Community Foundation 1996-1999Joanne Wong East Bay Community Foundation 1998-1999Nelson Holl California Consumer Protection Foundation 2000-2001Bob Uyeki East Bay Community Foundation 2000-2002Dianne Yamashiro-

Omi The California Endowment 2001-2004Fatima Angeles The California Wellness Foundation 2003-presentEugene Chan Community Technology Foundation of California 2004-present

Northwest Region/Puget Sound ChapterSoya Jung Harris A Territory Resource Foundation 2002-2004Yin Ling Leung New World Foundation 2002-2004Anne Xuan Clark Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2004-presentSavitha Pathi Women’s Funding Alliance 2004-present

Southern California ChapterSally Lew The James Irvine Foundation 1995-2002Joe Lumarda California Community Foundation 1995-1999Michael Balaoing The California Wellness Foundation 2000-2002Miyoko Oshima Southern California Association for Philanthropy 2002-2004Lina Paredes Liberty Hill Foundation 2002-presentWendy Chang Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation 2004-present

StaffSarita Ahuja 1999June Choi 1998Meena Deo 1999-2000Marjorie Fujiki 1994-1998Pronita Gupta 2002-presentAlina Hua 2000Jeanette Huie 2002-presentMaria Kong 2001-presentJoe Lucero 1995-1998Rita Bawanan Merzoian 2000-presentRobert Puno 2000Peggy Saika 2001-presentMelanie San Pedro 1999-2000Moira Shek 1999-2001Carmelita Tursi 1992-1994

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Publications1992 Invisible and In Need: Philanthropic Giving to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

1995 Reweaving Our Social Fabric: Challenges to the Grantmaking Community AfterProposition 187, co-published with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants andRefugees; Hispanics in Philanthropy

1996 He Alo A He Alo: Face to Face with the Real Hawai’i

1997 The Invisible Crisis:The Educational Needs of Asian Pacific American Youth

Asian Pacific Americans and the Independent Sector : Conference on Asian PacificAmericans and the Nonprofit Sector

Making the Invisible Visible: Strategies to Increase the Participation of Asian PacificAmericans in the Philanthropic Sector

2000 Mentorship Program Guide

2001 The Meaning and Impact of Board and Staff Diversity in the Philanthropic Field: Findingsfrom a National Study, sponsored by the Joint Affinity Groups

2002 Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil RightsAdvocacy, authored by Lora Jo Foo and published by The Ford Foundation

2003 A Report on Asian Americans in Massachusetts: 2000 U.S. Census Data for the State,Boston, Lowell, and Quincy, prepared by the Institute for Asian American Studies atthe University of Massachusetts Boston, with support provided in part by theMassachusetts Chapter of AAPIP

Asian & Pacific Islander Minnesota Profile, a joint publication of the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans and the Minnesota Chapter of AAPIP

New Challenges for Bay Area Philanthropy: Asian & Pacific Islander Communities,prepared by the Northern California Chapter of AAPIP

2004 Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian Communities in the San Francisco BayArea: An Introduction to Grantmakers, co-published with Grantmakers Concernedwith Immigrants and Refugees

2005 Asian and Pacific Islander Prisoner Reentry:A Profile of Characteristics, Issues and Programs

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1991 Panel: “Race Relations in Transition -The Experience of the Asian-American Community”

1991 Annual Membership Meeting:“Advancing the Asian Agenda,”San Francisco, CA

1992 Annual Membership Meeting

1993 Annual Membership Meeting,Rosslyn,VA

1994 Annual Membership Meeting

1995 Annual Membership Meeting, “AsianPacific Americans and AffirmativeAction: Invisible and in Need orModel Minority?” San Francisco, CA

1996 “Looking Ahead: Inside the Shoreline- Community, Concerns andCommon Threads in Hawaii,”Atlanta, GA

1997 Annual Membership Meeting:“He Alo A He Alo: Face to Face withthe Real Hawai’i,” Honolulu, HI

1998 Annual Membership Meeting: “AsianPacific Americans in the NationalPublic Policy Scene: Challenges andOpportunities for Philanthropy,”Washington, DC

1999 Annual Membership Meeting:“Asian Americans in the South:Rising Between the Borders of Black & White,” New Orleans, LA

2000 Annual Membership Meeting: 10thAnniversary, “In the Driver’s Seat:Asian Pacific Americans SteeringNew Paths in Philanthropy,”Los Angeles, CA

1st Annual Leadership Retreat,San Francisco, CA

2001 Annual Membership Meeting:Capacity Built-Building Capacity -Part I: A Guided Walking Tour ofChinatown; Part II: Challenges Ahead:Culturally Responsive Grantmakingand Building Capacity in Diverse APACommunities,” Philadelphia, PA

2nd Annual Leadership Retreat,San Diego, CA

2002 Annual Membership Meeting:“Philanthropy’s Role in Times ofCrisis,” Chicago, IL

3rd Annual Leadership Retreat,Houston,TX

2003 Annual Membership Meeting: “Post-9/11 Collaborations in the Arab,Muslim, South Asian, and SikhCommunities,” Dallas,TX

4th Annual Leadership Retreat:“APIs Caught in the Intersection of the Criminal Justice System andImmigration Policy,” Baltimore, MD

2004 Annual Membership Meeting:“A Tale of Two Countries: ImmigrantIntegration in Canada and the UnitedStates,”Toronto, Ontario, Canada

5th Annual Leadership Retreat:“Hmong Resettlement andImmigrant Integration,”Minneapolis, MN

2005 Annual Membership Meeting,15th Anniversary, San Diego, CA

6th Annual Leadership Retreat,Seattle,WA

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& Program Highlights: 1990-2005

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Founding ContributorsAnheuser-Busch CompaniesARCO CorporationApple ComputerChevron USALevi Strauss FoundationThe San Francisco Foundation

Institutional MembersAmerican Express FoundationBlue Shield of California FoundationThe California EndowmentThe California Wellness FoundationAnnie E. Casey FoundationCitigroup FoundationFannie Mae FoundationThe Wallace Alexander

Gerbode FoundationWilliam Randolph Hearst FoundationsJohnson & JohnsonWashington MutualWells Fargo

Full MembersIda K. Chen, Samuel S. Fels FundBrennan Gang, New York Women’s Foundation

Wayne Koike, Haigh-Scatena FoundationJill Robinson Kramer, Lumina FoundationKathleen Lee, Committee of 100Jean Miao,The Getty FoundationCao K. O, Asian American Federation

of New YorkChristine Plautz, Girl’s Best

Friend FoundationMoira Shek, Independent Consultant

June Sugiyama,Vodafone-US FoundationRuby Takanishi, Foundation for

Child DevelopmentCarmelita Tursi, AARP CaliforniaBao Vang, Minnesota Council of NonprofitsAngie Wang, New York Women’s Foundation

Associate MembersCathy Inamasu, Nihonmachi Little FriendsSally Lew, Independent ConsultantDing Panjaron, APICHARowena Pineda, Contra Costa Child

Care CouncilDien Yuen, U.S.Trust

Individual ContributorsJocelyn AnchetaRini BanerjeeTrinh DuongJon and Amy FunabikiKaying HangBill Ong HingKathy ImDavid Mas MasumotoLisa PhilpCristina RegaladoC.J. Liu RosenblattKaryn SciortinoJai Lee and Kent Wong

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15th Anniversary Special Contributors 2004-2005

Funders 2004-2005The California EndowmentThe California Wellness FoundationChevronTexaco CorporationThe Ford FoundationThe Wallace Alexander

Gerbode FoundationThe Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. FundThe James Irvine FoundationJEHT FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur FoundationCharles Stewart Mott FoundationThe David and Lucile Packard FoundationThe Rockefeller FoundationRosenberg FoundationThe San Francisco Foundation

Institutional Members2004-2005American Express FoundationAnheuser-Busch, Inc.Avon FoundationBlue Shield of California FoundationOtto Bremer FoundationCalifornia Community FoundationThe California EndowmentCalifornia Healthcare FoundationThe California Wellness FoundationThe Annie E. Casey FoundationMarguerite Casey FoundationChevronTexaco CorporationCitigroup FoundationThe Cleveland FoundationCommunity Technology Foundation

of CaliforniaDoris Duke Charitable Foundation

East Bay Community FoundationEntertainment Industry FoundationFannie Mae FoundationThe Wallace Alexander

Gerbode FoundationGill FoundationEdwin Gould Foundation for ChildrenEvelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. FundHearst Foundation, Inc.The William and Flora Hewlett FoundationC.J. Huang FoundationThe Hyams Foundation, Inc.The James Irvine FoundationJohnson & JohnsonThe Joyce FoundationJP Morgan Private BankThe W.K. Kellogg FoundationLawrence Choy Lowe Memorial FundLevi Strauss FoundationMarin Community FoundationThe McKnight FoundationEugene and Agnes E. Meyer FoundationThe Minneapolis FoundationMertz Gilmore FoundationNellie Mae Education FoundationThe David and Lucile Packard FoundationThe William Penn FoundationRosenberg FoundationThe San Francisco FoundationThe Small Change FoundationSocial Venture Partners InternationalThe Dwight Stuart Youth FoundationA Territory Resource FoundationVerizonWashington Mutual Wells Fargo Foundation

*Please visit our website at www.aapip.org for up-to-date information.

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Special Contributors 2004-2005*

Many thanks to all of AAPIP's supporters over these past 15 years!

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About AAPIPPage 2, left to right

Leadership Retreat, Minneapolis, MN, 2004(Kaying Hang, Jocelyn Ancheta)

Leadership Retreat,San Francisco, CA, 1999 (Jon Funabiki)

Leadership Retreat, Minneapolis,MN, 2004 (Anne Xuan Clark,Savitha Pathi, Donna Ortega)

Grassroots BeginningsPage 5, top to bottomInvisible and In Need report cover

Annual Membership Meeting,San Francisco, CA, 1996 (Kavita Ramdas, Richard Woo)

AAPIP Board of Directors Meeting,San Francisco, CA, 2005 (Lisa Philp)

Establishment & GrowthPage 6, left to right

Welcome Peggy Saika Reception,San Francisco, CA, 2001 (Nelson Holl, Marjorie Fujiki)

Annual Membership Meeting, San Francisco,CA, 1996 (Sherry Hirota, Sylvia Yee)

Annual Membership Meeting,Honolulu, HI, 1997

Becoming More StrategicPage 9, left to right

Leadership Retreat,San Francisco, CA, 1999 (Sylvia Yee,Dianne Yamashiro-Omi, Jai Lee Wong)

Annual Membership Meeting,Los Angeles, CA, 2000 (Moira Shek, Lori Villarosa)

Advancing Community & PhilanthropyPage 10, left to right

Leadership Retreat, Minneapolis, MN, 2004(Claire Chang, Kayva Yang)

Asian American Women report cover

Annual Membership Meeting,Toronto,Canada, 2004 – Board Chair Lisa Philppresenting Alan Okada and Jai Lee Wongawards for their board of directors service(Alan Okada, Jai Lee Wong, Lisa Philp)

AAPIP PeoplePage 15, left to right

AAPIP Board of Directors Meeting,San Francisco, CA, 2005 - AAPIP 2005 Board of Directors and Staff (Front Row: C.J. Liu Rosenblatt, PeggySaika,Timothy Wu; Middle Row: JocelynAncheta, Lisa Philp, Kaying Hang, JeanetteHuie, Cristina Regalado, Maria Kong; BackRow: Rini Banerjee,Trinh Duong, Kathy Im,Rita Bawanan Merzoian, Bill Ong Hing)Absent: Pronita Gupta, Amber Khan

Service & Program HighlightsPage 16, left to right

Annual Membership Meeting,Toronto,Canada, 2004 (Joe Lumarda, Sally Lew)

Leadership Retreat,Minneapolis, MN, 2004 (Danielle Reyes)

Leadership Retreat, Minneapolis, MN,2004 (Jeanette Huie, Kathy Im)

Special ContributorsPage 18, left to right

Joint Affinity Group Holiday Reception,Los Angeles, CA, 2004 (Lina Paredes,Cristina Regalado,Wendy Chang)

Leadership Retreat,Minneapolis, MN, 2004 (Cuong Hoang)

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AAPIP 15th Anniversary Celebrations in 2005

National and regional anniversary celebrations will be held throughout the year, andeach regional event reflects both the unique local community and AAPIP leadership.All of these events are free and open to all AAPIP members. Please contact thenational office for more information. Visit www.aapip.org/15years for local contactsand other details of each event.

March 11 Boston, Massachusetts

March 24 New York, New York

April 9-10 San Diego, CA – National Event

June Chicago, Illinois

Fall San Francisco, California

Fall Washington, D.C.

September 17-19 Seattle,Washington

October Los Angeles, California

November Minneapolis, Minnesota

Writing: David Biemesderfer, DJB Consulting Services with AAPIP staffDesign: vanderleeMEDIA l Somsara Rielly, Art Direction

200 Pine Street, Suite 700San Francisco, CA 94104ph 415 273 2760 fx 415 273 2765aapip@aapip.org www.aapip.org

15 YEARS OF ADVANCING COMMUNITY AND PHILANTHROPY

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