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Since 1996, APIAVote has been at the forefront of a rising movement to ensure AAPIs are represented and heard, leading to historic voter turnout and advancing equity for AAPI communities.
2012
APIAVote receives $500,000 from the Coulter Foundation to subgrant to local and regional foundations for voter engagement work. The “Up for Grabs: America’s Swing Vote Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders” report is published in partnership with the Asian American Justice Center.
APIAVote launches the Asian American Voter Survey to gauge Asian Americans’ voting preferences for the upcoming election, and to address the void in polling data for the Asian electorate.
APIAVote hosts Presidential Town Hall, with DNC Vice Chair Rep. Mike Honda (representing President Obama) and former Rep. Tom Davis (representing Governor Mitt Romney). MSNBC anchor Richard Lui moderated the forum.
APIAVote holds receptions and electoral briefings at the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention.
Norman Y. Mineta Leadership Institute (NYMLI) training programs expands to California, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Texas, Washington
The 2012 Election shows a 500,000 increase in AAPI voters compared to 2008.
2014
Norman Y. Mineta Leadership Institute training programs expands to 14 cities.
NYMLI Philadelphia multilingual training, conducted in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese and primarily training high school students
APIAVote releases State Fact Sheets, providing information on what the AAPI electorate looks like in partner states.
In conjunction with AAJC, APIAVote releases the 2014 Asian American Voter Survey on voting preferences and habits ahead of the midterm elections.
APIAVote launches “Turn Out For What” PSA series, featuring everyday people from the AAPI community.
APIAVote’s Young Voter Initiative, supporter student groups and community-based organizations with youth-led voter mobilization campaigns, expands to grantees in New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Washington state.
2016
APIAVote, in collaboration with AAPIData and AAJC, releases the 2016 Asian American Voter Survey, which polled 1,200 Asian American registered voters about their voting preferences.
APIAVote hosts Town Hall at Caesar’s Palace in Nevada, with former President Bill Clinton on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Secretary Hillary Clinton, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (on behalf of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump), Green presidential nominee Jill Stein, and Libertarian presidential nominee Governor Gary Johnson.
APIAVote holds briefings at the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention.
APIAVote partnered with 31 local organizations across 25 states to register voters, educate low-propensity voters about the importance of their vote, and turn them out on Election Day. The voter contact program implemented through our partners sent mailers to 532,677 voters. In addition, the phone bank operations targeted 326,000 voters.
APIAVote launches television and online voter registration and get-out-the-vote PSAs targeting AAPIs, with a host of celebrity spokespeople, including John Cho, George Takei and more.
APIAVote launches informative Voting Rights PSAs in multiple languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, Vietnamese
2017
APIAVote launches its Youth Ambassador program to increase the electoral participation and civic engagement of young Asian American and Pacific Islanders, who have the lowest level of voter participation among all age groups.
The 2017 APIAVote Ambassador Summit is held for three days in mid-September and included 90 student ambassadors, 23 states, and 40 campuses coming together to cultivate their electoral organizing skills.
2018
NYMLI trainings are conducted in multiple cities across key states, ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, including Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington
2018 Youth Leadership Summit is held for high school leaders in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland area to reflect on the significance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) history, share emerging trends in AAPI communities, and develop concrete strategies to promote civic engagement.
APIAVote, in partnership with AAPI Data, releases the 2018 Asian American Voter Survey, revealing voting insights of the fastest-growing racial group in the United States, including their voting plans for House and Senate races in 2018, and various issue priorities such as education, health care, and the state of the economy.
2019
APIAVote, along with several partners, hosts Congressional Reception to highlight the leadership of AAPI members of Congress.
APIAVote amps up its campaign to get AAPIs to participate in the 2020 US Census and to prepare for the 2020 elections. “The Power of Being Counted” workshops are held ahead of the count to introduce and emphasize the unique challenges of the 2020 census, outline the need for an accurate count of the AAPI community, and provide a general overview of how census data is collected and what the data is used for.
APIAVote conducted over 50 NYMLI regional trainings across the country, attaining a record number of in-person trainings.
2021
APIAVote collaborates with partners in 12 states to host state-specific / AAPI-targeted redistricting trainings as part of its Norman Y. Mineta Leadership Institute.
APIAVote and other AANHPI leaders meet with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss voting rights, anti-Asian hate, immigration, and economic opportunity.
A total of $180,000 in subgrants are given to 11 community partners to offset the cost of building program infrastructure to engage with the redistricting process in their respective states.
Translated mailers are distributed to 21,589 households and 2.5 weeks of text and phone banking are conducted to do voter education and GOTV for the local and state-wide races.
APIAVote implements COVID public health campaign, reaching over 1,500,000 Asian Americans in 46 states via phone and text banking, with support from TD+W and HHS, to promote vaccine and COVID public health messaging.
Disinformation and Misinformation Monitoring is launched to analyze disinformation trends as they pertain to voting rights, elections, democracy, anti-Asian hate, and other potential narratives about our communities.
Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) is the nation’s leading nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to engaging, educating, and empowering Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities to strengthen their voices and create impact. For 15 years, APIAVote has been at the forefront of a rising movement to ensure AAPIs are represented and heard, leading to historic voter turnout and advancing equity for AAPI communities.
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