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AAPI Fund Announces 2025 Creative Catalyst Fellows, which awards $30,000 each to eight independent artists.

May 2025

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AAPI Fund Collaborates with UCLA LPPI on a New Data Brief about the Rising AAPI Latino Population in the United States

May 2024

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In the News

Why the number of AAPI Latinos in the United States is growing

May 2025
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Philanthropy for a Multiracial Democracy: How Investing in Pluralism Can Open the Aperture for Democracy Funders

February 2025
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Blog

  • When ICE Comes to the Food Shelf 

    “People are scared. And if there is nothing you can do, what do we do?”  That is what Mary Niedermeyer, CEO of one our grantee partners, Communities Advancing Prosperity for Immigrants (CAPI) in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, told us when we spoke with her shortly after the killing of Alex Pretti by ICE agents.

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  • Hope in a Time of Monsters

    We live in a time of monsters, and our collective imagination needs renewal. We, as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, over twenty-six million strong, living and working in this country, must reflect on the criticality of civic participation in these times as individuals and as a community.

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History

The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund was conceived in 2013 to counter past philanthropic giving to which have been episodic, chaotic, and insufficient resulting in the disenfranchisement of AAPI communities. Previously a fiscally sponsored project, the AAPI Fund became an independent 501(c)(3) organization in 2024.