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 FACT SHEET ABOUT APIAVOTE
Our Mission: The Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that encourages and promotes civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public policy processes at the national, state and local levels.
APIAVote Vision:
APIAVote envisions a society in which all Asian Pacific Islander Americans fully participate in and have access to the democratic process.
APIAVote Values:
- APIAVote operates under three distinct values, which are reflected in the strategic goals:
- We believe in democracy and the democratic process.
- We believe in full civic participation and access of all Asians and Pacific Islander Americans.
- We believe that communities best represent themselves.
APIAVote Board of Directors
APIAVote Executive Director & Staff
History
APIAVote began as the 1996 National Asian Pacific American Voter Registration Campaign, which comprised of national organizations that were just becoming conscious of the need to politically mobilize the APIA community.
APIAVote has entered a critical juncture in its organizational life cycle; whereas APIAVote started under a coalition-based infrastructure with the Organization of Chinese Americans serving as a fiscal agent, it became clear that APIAVote was maturing and needed to become its own 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. In an effort to move toward sustainability and establishing itself as its own entity, APIAVote began the thoughtful and formalized process of strategic planning in June 2005. This planning process was made possible with a grant from the Ford Foundation. APIAVote was incorporated in Washington, D.C. during December 2005.
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