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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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AAPI Fund Announces 2025 Creative Catalyst Fellows
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2025Contact: Kyung Jin Lee, [email protected] AAPI Fund Announces 2025 Creative Catalyst Fellows Projects include animated oral history, interactive museum book, zine-like video game, and a portrait series of historic AAPI environmentalists LOS ANGELES: The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund (AAPI Fund) announced today the recipients of its Creative Catalyst Fellowship, which
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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
The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute in partnership with the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund released a new Latino Data Hub brief that uncovers the diverse experiences and challenges faced by different racial groups within the U.S. Latino population.
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AAPI Civic Engagement Fund Awards More Than $6 Million to AAPI Groups across the United States
Through its grantmaking approach, AAPI Civic Engagement Fund continues to fund a network of organizations that are increasing the participation of AAPIs throughout the country.
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AAPI Fund Selects Five Accomplished AAPI American Artists for New Creative Catalyst Fellowship
The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund has announced the recipients of its Creative Catalyst Fellowship, which awards $30,000 to five artists to produce interdisciplinary art projects around critical issues impacting the AAPI community and activate civic engagement in the 2024 elections.
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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
On October 16, 2023, we celebrated the launch of Curtis Chin’s upcoming memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.” This virtual event was co-sponsored by RUN AAPI.
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Protected: 2023-2024 Creative Catalyst Fellowship: FAQ
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EVENT: Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
Writer Claire Jean Kim and Colorlines publisher Charlene Sinclair were in conversation with each other, exploring the positionality of Asian Americans relative to anti-Blackness and how this positionality is weaponized to reinforce structural anti-Blackness.
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AAPI Civic Engagement Fund Awards $5.4 Million in 2023 to Bolster AAPI Civic Participation and Strengthen Multi-Racial Democracy in the U.S.
In May 2023, we announced $5.4 million in general operating grants to 50 groups that are fostering full civic participation for AAPI communities across the country.