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Guided by the philosophy: Keep your values. Develop new skills・ LEAP is highly respected for its innovative and culturally-based leadership development workshops, programs and conferences; its collaborative public policy reports with UCLA; its college internship program; and its newly created civic leadership institute that promotes greater civic engagement and political participation locally, regionally and nationally. With the AAPI community increasing in both size and diversity, LEAP retains the expertise to equip individuals with the necessary skills to lead, understand and address the issues and concerns of this dynamic population.
Angry Asian Man is a personal site which points out racism and notes any and all appearances of Asians in mass media and popular culture. The author is a regular Asian American guy living in the United States who expresses some of the things he observes and encounters. He has created a place to express himself and, in turn, helps himself and other Asian Americans, cope with racism and the ignorance of its existense, because Asian Americans still do struggle with issues of acceptance in this country. His concerns are written with a sense of humor, because it helps lighten the truth that lies within them. "Angry Asian Man" represents all things loud and proud about Asian America.
The Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute (APALI) at De Anza College is an educational and public service organization supported by visionary philanthropists, together with corporate, foundation, and community partners. Through five leadership education programs APALI serves to advance civic leadership education and to create a civic leadership pipeline from underrepresented communities. APALI provides a unique blend of knowledge, skills, and networking for effective leadership.
APEX meets the diverse needs of Asian professionals by broadening the horizon upon which they would choose their careers through expanding opportunity and through networking. By exchanging ideas and collaborating effort, APEX utilizes the talents and influence of young Asian American professionals to create innovative and successful projects which benefit the Asian Pacific American community and the professional community.They can explore new career paths, meet peers and leaders who impart insights from their experiences, and truly understand what "community" means.
Founded in 1987 as a grassroots response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in communities of color, A&PI Wellness Center is the oldest nonprofit organization in North America focusing on A&PI communities around sexual health and HIV/AIDS services. Their mission is to educate, support, empower and advocate for Asian and Pacific Islander communities – particularly A&PIs living with, or at-risk for, HIV/AIDS. For the past 20 years, A&PI Wellness Center has been providing a competent, accessible, life-saving and life-affirming, holistic model of health and wellness for A&PIs living with HIV, for those at-risk for HIV, and for all of our family and community.
AABA is one of the largest Asian American bar associations in the nation and one of the largest minority bar associations in the State of California. From it inception in 1976, AABA has provided Asian American attorneys with a vehicle for the unified expression of opinions and positions on matters of concern to all Asian American attorneys. AABA also encourages and promotes the professional growth of its members, serves the Asian American and minority community, and fosters the exchange of ideas and information among its members and with the legal community at large.
Focusing on the diverse Asian American community, Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI)’s mission is to improve the health, mental health, and well-being of individuals and their families by providing an array of human services including HIV/AIDS prevention and education, breast cancer education, substance abuse treatment, a center for survivors of torture, programs and shelter for women and children who are domestic violence victims, a senior center, after-school youth programs, English and citizenship classes, and advocacy. AACI empowers the Asian American community by working collaboratively for equality and social justice and asserts the rights and advocates for the betterment and well-being of all Asian Pacific Americans in Santa Clara County.
In 1989, two Asian leukemia patients were in desperate need of bone marrow transplants and turned to the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP) Registry which only had 123 Asian donors listed at the time. With a statewide appeal to recruit more Asians onto the Registry they were successfull in recruiting more than 2,000 Asians. The unfortunate deaths of these two people gave birth to the compelling mission of the Asian American Donor Program (AADP) of patients with life threatening blood diseases curable by a stem cell transplant. They are now an official recruitment group of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) specializing in conducting outreach and donor drives in the Asian, Pacific Islander and Multi-racial communities geared towards saving the lives.
The Asian Business League of San Francisco (ABL-SF), founded in 1980, is first non-profit organization in California to focus its attention on Asian trade and business. Through seminars, workshops and conferences, ABL-SF provides its members with opportunities to develop and enhance leadership and management skills for education and employment advancement. In addition, ABL-SF provides its members with opportunities to meet with other business leaders in the community, to participate in the advocacy of issues important to Asian Americans and to learn and share pertinent information about the current economic and business climate on both a local and international level. In 1999, ABL-SF expanded its services to the Asian American community by reaching out to future business leaders with its Youth Program which aims to stimulate career considerations at an early age and to promote the discussion of a serious topic in an informal setting.
AsianWeek is the national English-language newsweekly for the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American community.They seek to chronicle the Asian Pacific American experience by reporting on the people, the events, and the ideas that shape not only Asian American society, but the dominant culture as well. In all of their coverage and commentary they seek to place news in a context that is relevant to their readers. They help to define the priorities of the national Asian Pacific American community and create a stronger political voice among all Asian Pacific Americans by involving them in the American democratic experiment.
Association of Chinese Finance Professionals (ACFP) is a non-profit organization chartered in California, SA. Her members are those professionals who work for financial institutions or in financial fields. ACFP's mission is to provide a worldwide network for finance professionals and to promote the cooperation between China and other countries' financial institutions. Their main objective is to promote cross-board business opportunities by bringing together American and Chinese financial institutions and by exchanging information and ideas. This unique role of "intermediary" is becoming more important as China enters the WTO and opens its financial market to the world and will assume a mission to aid financial institutions from both sides in achieving their business goals. ACFP also organizes/co-organizes conferences, seminars, workshops, and training programs.
In 2000, Korea IT Network (KIN) was formed in Silicon Valley for the purpose of developing a network of information technology professionals, companies, and investors of Korean descent.
An increasing number of Koreans and Korean-Americans are playing an important and significant role in the worldwide proliferation of the information technology as engineers, investors, and entrepreneurs. However, even as the number of successful Korean entrepreneurs and professionals grow, it pales still in numbers and scale to those from other ethnic communities such as India, China, and Israel; these communities are supported by successful networking organizations (TIE, Monte Jade, Jewish Community Centers, etc).
KIN aims to promote among Koreans and Korean-Americans exchange of ideas and opportunities, increased and shared access to various resources, and cooperation among its members in order to help them to achieve and maintain pre-eminence in the IT-related careers and ventures
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In 1996 a handful of paddlers came together with the vision to build an organization to foster the growth and development of dragon boating in the San Francisco Bay Area. After more than a decade of labor, the CDBA is now the largest dragon boating organization in the Bay Area, organizes one of the largest competitive dragon boat festivals in the United States and oversees the largest high school and college dragon boat program in the nation. Aside from paddling, CBDA is committed to enhance bonding and interaction among different ethnic and cultural groups locally, nationally, and internationally. Since its creation the driving force behind the CDBA has been through the efforts of its volunteers. Nearly every function of the CDBA is accomplished by individuals who take time out of their schedule to contribute to something they truly believe in.
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The Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA) is a 501c(3) non-profit organization staffed solely by volunteers working together to build a senseof community among the tri-state area's Asian Pacific Americans. General meetings are held once a month where we plan logistics, set policy, and network. The board members represent a wide range of ages, professions and cultural backgrounds and every two years, new officers are elected to preserve the tradition of bringing in new ideas and approaches for continuing the success of the Festival. The Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival consists of over a hundred information tables of all kinds, a children's program, a mini-film fest, and entertainment all around. Every year thousands of people share and celebrate their culture and heritage.
Element has been planning all types of events in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 15 years. Each year, the staff members are involved with over 200 events- from an intimate evening out on the town to a 5,000+ person event. They can coordinate every step to insure that everything goes smoothly & within budget. All events include event planner and day of staff, if requested. Their client list includes small startups, large consulting companies such as Accenture, even larger Fortune 500 companies like Sun Microsystems and Wells Fargo. Element can also help plan Bay Area weddings, parties, and fundraisers for children's groups, local grad schools, and many other worthy causes.
Giant Robot magazine covers cool aspects of Asian and Asian-American pop culture however it has earned a loyal readership of all ethnicities from high schoolers to senior citizens. Giant Robot put the spotlight on Asians stars before they were in mainstream America's vocabulary. GR's spirited reviews and historical pieces and other savory topics have been cited by both academics and journalists. Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong launched Giant Robot magazine in 1994; the first GR was a stapled-and-folded photocopied digest with an edition of 240. Over time, Giant Robot has grown over 100 times larger, and has gained a respectful reputation. Giant Robot can now be seen around the world at Barnes & Noble, Virgin, Borders, small boutiques, comic book shops, and mom and pop record shops, and the online store.
The (H)API Hour (hapihour.org) brings together supporters of Asian American Pacific Islander communities through happy hours that raise funds for, and awareness of, nonprofit organizations serving AAPIs in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. Since its first San Francisco event in July 2000, (H)API Hour has raised the profile of and thousands of dollars for AAPI nonprofits and issues. Events are held roughly every month in the Bay Area and 2-3 times a year in Los Angeles — each event benefiting a different AAPI organization. (H)API Hour is an event series run by volunteers and is not itself a nonprofit howerver, one hundred percent of all funds raised are donated to the organizations they benefit. Founded by community activists Linda Li, David Chiu, Khin Mai Aung, Monty Agarwal, Gavin Funabiki, Phil Ting, Jane Kim and Victor Hwang, (H)API Hour is today led by Keith Kamisugi and David Chiu and Wendy Lin assists with LA events.
Hyphen is non-profit national print and online magazine covering politics, pop culture and arts in the Asian American community. Hyphen covers social justice issues and independent art news that offers hard looks at social justice issues, in-depth profiles and glimpses into the world of artists who are re-envisioning Asian America. As an all-volunteer organization, they strive to offer a resource and voice to young Asian Americans. Launched in June 2003, Hyphen magazine is distributed every four months to the Asian American community. Carried in nearly 100 independent bookstores across the country, Hyphen has a readership of 5,000 and receives over 16,000 visitors monthly at its website and blog.
KTSF, serving the San Francisco Bay Area Asian community since 1976, is locally owned and is committed to providing quality news, information and entertainment programming in over 12 different languages including nightly, live news programming in both Cantonese and Mandarin. KTSF has devoted all its prime-time hours to Asian programming, providing the San Francisco Bay Area Asian community the best programming from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and Korea. KTSF is an independent, full-power station, reaching over 1.4 million Asian-Americans throughout 10 Bay Area counties reaching more than 2,750,000 Northern California households. KTSF also has more public service time devoted to issues facing Asian communities than any other television station in the Bay Area.
Started in early 2002, San Francisco Chinatown.com shares the heritage and culture of San Francisco Chinatown. It gives online information of the attractions, resturaunts, stores, and events in San Francisco Chinatown. The site also outlines the history of Chinatown. As an online site, they also act as media sponsors to the events in and around Chinatown such as 10th Annual Emperor & Empress Charity Ball and the Friends of Children with Special Needs 2002 Fundraising Gala and helped promote events such as the Moon Festival and the Chinatown Night Market Fair. It is a new organization, rapidly growing, and looking to sponsor and promote many other events of interest.
Vision New America was founded in 1996 to promote the civic participation of underrepresented ethnic groups, starting with the Asian Pacific American (APA) population. Their successful Summer Public Policy Internship Program, which focuses on youth leadership development, is the foundation of their programming and helps ensure that youth are ready to serve as community leaders. It is complemented by their nonpartisan voter education and outreach efforts and our sponsorship of educational forums that seek to encourage youth to be more active and engaged citizens.
The MEDIA ACTION NETWORK FOR ASIAN AMERICANS (MANAA) is the first organization solely dedicated to monitoring all facets of the media – television, motion pictures, print, advertising, radio, etc. – and advocating balanced, sensitive and positive portrayals of Asian Americans. MANAA serves as a resource for information regarding the treatment of Asian Pacific Americans in the media.
SAALT is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering an environment in which all South Asians in America can participate fully in civic and political life, and have influence over policies that affect them. SAALT works to achieve this goal through advocacy, community education, local capacity-building, and leadership development. SAALT cultivates partnerships with and among South Asian organizations and individuals; amplifies the concerns of disempowered community members; and works in collaboration with broader civil and immigrant rights movements.
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