Movement Hub
The Movement Hub is a curated digital resource for AAPI organizations and leaders. The resources within it include data, narratives, resources and speakers.
Annual Gatherings
Since 2014, we have hosted an annual gathering for our grantees and supporters to learn from each other, contemplate timely topics, and deepen relationships.
Capacity Building
We offer trainings, technical assistance, access to tools, and networking opportunities.
Shared Liberation Network
The Shared Liberation Network is a grantee-led network that facilitates learning and exchanges to deepen relationships, build skills, and explore shared strategies.
Trainings and Technical Assistance
We offer our grantees relevant and responsive capacity support from training, technical assistance, and coaching.
Building Narrative Power
To ensure AAPI voices and perspectives are heard, we launched AAPI Speaks, a speakers directory and talent bank. Conference planners, media and community groups wishing to request these leaders may do so at AAPI Speaks.
Chinese for Affirmative Action’s Chinese Digital Engagement Program
We collaborated with Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) on its Chinese Digital Engagement (CDE) Program. Through their Chinese language website PiYaoBa.org and JusticePatch.org as well as their social media channels, CAA’s CDE team engages users in the Chinese language on contemporary issues, mitigates the spread of misinformation and disinformation, and works to identify messages that motivate or appeal to Chinese Americans.
Creative Catalyst
Our Creative Catalyst Fellowship supports proposals that integrate the talents of artists and the activism of grassroots organizations toward artwork that can serve as a catalyst for civic participation.
Voting Together
These grants were offered to support local artists to create free-of-charge content that was readily made available to civic engagement groups during the 2020 elections.
Community Conversations
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
On October 16, 2023, we celebrated the launch of Curtis Chin‘s memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. This virtual event with the author was co-sponsored by RUN AAPI.
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant chronicles Curtis’s experience growing up Asian American in the black and white city of Detroit and coming out to his working-class immigrant family, all set against Reagan’s eighties and his family’s popular Chinese restaurant. The Vincent Chin murder plays a pivotal role in the book, as his uncle was Vincent’s best man. The book, which features plenty of Chinese food and Motown vibes, was published by Little, Brown on October 17.
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
Today, as ever, it is critical that Asian American and Pacific Islander communities join with Black communities to advance racial justice. Writer Claire Jean Kim and Colorlines publisher Charlene Sinclair drew from new research to explore Asian Americans and anti-Blackness and how racial dynamics are weaponized to reinforce structural anti-Blackness. They also highlighted ways that we can create new narratives and fight anti-Blackness, and the harm it perpetuates, to ensure shared prosperity, opportunity and equity.
This event was coorganized by the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund and Colorlines, and co-sponsored by the National AAPI Power Fund, California Black Freedom Fund, Four Freedoms Fund, Groundswell Fund, Groundswell Action Fund, and the RISE Together Fund.
Behind Closed Doors
We cohosted a new four-part webinar series on racism and politics with the USC Sol Price School’s Center for Inclusive Democracy, the California Black Freedom Fund, and the Latino Community Foundation.
These moderated sessions served as a public space for open and challenging conversations examining the nation’s entrenched relationship between racism and politics, a situation recently brought further into the spotlight by the secret recording of a meeting of Los Angeles City Council members making racist remarks.
You can watch the highlights of these four sessions here, or watch each session in full on the USC Price School’s YouTube channel.
About Us
We are one of the largest funders of AAPI movement building organizations. We strengthen democracy in the United States by building the political power of AAPI communities.