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APIAVote‘s impact is powered by philanthropic investments from our funding partners. Together, we strengthen Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities across the U.S. by empowering trusted local AAPI serving organizations the resources to incorporate civic engagement principals into their services, as well as directly engaging AAPIs to see themselves as part of our shared democracy with translated and targeted messaging.
According to the 2020 US Census, AAPI communities are growing in every state and the District of Columbia. To meet the exponential growth and diversifying needs of our communities, your ongoing support is needed every year. With your sustained contributions each year, we can:
Invest early in growing AAPI communities: By expanding our Alliance for Civic Empowerment network we are strengthening our collective power to ensure our voices are heard and our needs and concerns are addressed.
Build a pipeline for future community leaders: There is an awakening of AAPI activists, young and young-in-spirit, across the country. Your support will enable APIAVote to tap into this new generation of leaders and support their ability to build power through community organizing.
Combat mis- and disinformation: In many parts of our AAPI community mis- and disinformation is not being monitored or countered with factual or honest reporting. Your support helps us strengthen the infrastructure to address this threat.
Meet this moment: APIAVote is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit dedicated to increasing civic engagement in our AAPI communities. As the AAPI community’s numbers and power expands, APIAVote needs your support to serve their growing and diverse needs.
APIAVote is the nation’s leading nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to promoting civic engagement in Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Since 2007, our action-driven organization has built a nationwide network of community-based organizations that has led local, state, and national initiatives ensuring AAPIs are represented and heard. Our work focuses on:
Getting AAPIs registered to vote, out to vote, and counted in the US Census while also protecting the freedom to vote so that they can use their collective voices to advocate on issues important to them.
Identifying and investing in trusted organizations that directly serve AAPIs by providing them with expert training and financial resources to effectively engage with their community members of diverse ages, backgrounds, and languages.
Conducting research and supporting policies that help AAPIs build collective power by expanding and strengthening the public’s recognition of AAPIs as a growing national force as the margin of victory.
Working closely with a deep network of partners, our organizing and communications efforts have encouraged millions of AAPIs to vote in local, state, and federal elections, and to participate in the US Census. The results are clear: AAPIs are determining the outcomes of elections, resulting in our communities being recognized and addressed.
APIAVote’s approach is unique because of our commitment to developing functional, goal-oriented relationships with organizations who are trusted by our communities to promote and embed a culture of civic engagement. APIAVote and its active ACE network of grassroots partners are trusted not only by their community, but also by funders, elected officials, corporate leaders, and the media for their understanding of and responsiveness to our communities, who are made up of more than 50 ethnicities and speak over 100 different languages and dialects. Here is a sample of how our approach creates impact and is building real power:
In the 2020 election, despite the rise in anti-Asian hate and the COVID epidemic, AAPI voter turnout was record-breaking, increasing their turnout by 49.7% compared to 2016. This was due in large part to APIAVote’s national voter engagement strategy that touched nearly 700,000 AAPI households with mailers that reflected their communities, phone and text banking conversations, and targeted digital ads that connected with voters in the language and dialects that they are most comfortable with.
The 2024 presidential election will be a crucial opportunity to continue increasing voter participation and creating impact in the AAPI community, and APIAVote and its ACE network will be there to sustain this momentum and build on the progress made over the last decade, to achieve voter parity and maximize our collective power over the decisions affecting our communities.
For the 2020 Census, APIAVote and its ACE network conducted a major Get Out The Count campaign. This campaign explained the importance of the US Census in the languages and dialects that encouraged participation. This resulted in the Census showing that the population of Asian Americans is growing by double digits in 49 states and the District of Columbia, and that Pacific Islanders are also growing by double digits in 48 states and District of Columbia.
At the local level, AAPI communities are strengthening their voices and impact with support from APIAVote. For example, in Las Vegas, the Asian Community Development Council (“ACDC”) began with a successful voter registration initiative funded by APIAVote in 2015. Today, ACDC has become the area’s preeminent AAPI community organization with a $3 million budget.
The strength of APIAVote’s ACE network and unique capabilities, there is a growing national recognition of AAPIs as a key constituency who’s needs, and concerns deserve direct attention. We invite you to Invest in our work to scale our impact and ensure that we continue to strengthen the infrastructure that encourages and empowers Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to be an included and important part of our democracy.
For more information, contact development@apiavote.org
APIAVote works closely with roughly 60 national and local partners as part of our Alliance for Civic Engagement (ACE). Together, we focus on engaging, educating, and empowering the nearly 20 million AAPIs in the United States to strengthen their voices and create impact. Because, while we are among the fastest-growing racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., AAPIs are often underrepresented and underserved.
AAPI Data
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS)
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA)
Asian Pacific Islander Public Affairs (APAPA)
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF)
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO)
Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
Center on Civic Engagement (COCE)
Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate (CSAH)
NAPABA
National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA)
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates
National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA)
New American Leaders
State Voices
Xin Sheng Project
Arizona
AZ AANHPI for Equity
California
Asian Law Alliance
Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA)
Asian Pacific Islander Initiative (API Initiative)
Empowering Pacific Islander Community (EPIC)
Colorado
Asian Pacific Development Center
National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) Region 5
Florida
Asian American Federation of Florida (AAFF)
Florida Asian Services
Greater Orlando Asian American Bar Association
NAAAP – Central Florida
Pi Delta Psi Foundation
Georgia
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta
Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS)
Georgia Redistricting Alliance
Hawaii
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA)
Iowa
Iowa Asian Alliance
Illinois
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Chicago
Louisiana
VAYLA New Orleans
Massachusetts
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC)
Chinese Progressive Association (CPA-Boston)
Michigan
Rising Voices of Asian American Families (RVAAF)
APIAVote Michigan
Minnesota
Asian American Organizing Project (AAOP)
Center for Asian and Pacific Islanders (CAPI)
Missouri
Missouri Asian American Youth Foundation
OCA-St. Louis
North Carolina
North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT)
Southeast Asian Coalition (SEAC)
New Jersey
Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)
Philippine-American Friendship Community
NaFFAA New Jersey
New Mexico
New Mexico Asian Family Center (NMAFC)
Nevada
Asian Community Development Council (ACDC)
New York
APA Voice Coalition
MinKwon Center for Community Action
New York Immigrant Coalition (NYIC)
Ohio
Asian Services In Action, Inc. (ASIA)
OCA Greater Cleveland
TARGET Ohio
Oregon
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
Pennsylvania
Asian Americans United (AAU)
Pennsylvania Immigration & Citizenship Coalition (PICC)
Southeast Asian Mutual Aid Associations Coalition, Inc. (SEAMAAC)
VietLead
Rhode Island
Center for Southeast Asians
Tennessee
API Middle Tennessee
Texas
OCA – Greater Houston Chapter
Asian Texans for Justice
Dallas – SAAVETX Education Fund
North Texas – Asian Pacific American Islander Public Affairs (APAPA)
Utah
JACL – Utah Chapter
OCA – Utah Chapter
National Tongan American Society (NTAS)
Virginia
National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) Region 2
Hamkae Center
New Virginia Majority
Washington
Asian Community Referral Service (ACRS)
APACEvotes
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health
Freedom, Inc.
Wisconsin AAPI Coalition
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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