HAPPY BIRTHDAY AAPI Women Lead!!!
Turning Sexual Harassment into a Movement
Eight years ago, after experiencing sexual harassment in our respective workplaces and the silencing of ANHPI women’s voices, my sister and I decided it was time to build a national organization to amplify the brilliant and hidden stories of ANHPI women, girls, and gender-expansive communities. We began with a credit card and loans. In 2018, we finally launched AAPI Women Lead. We have since then, built a movement.
For our birthday, we share 8 best tips for how we’ve been able to create and build a bold, fierce, and community-driven national organization:
1) Build a culture and ecosystem that supports the leadership and creativity of your staff
2) Ask for help and stay committed to learning with and from the communities you serve and are a part of
3) Create safety and security plans with experts who can support your non-profit organization
4) Build and invest in relationships, partnerships across fields, stakeholders, and spaces with those who share your organization’s values and principles
5)Identify your organization’s values and principles for partnerships. This will be your compass for who you can grow, build with, trust, and learn from
6) Identify your community of stakeholders, funders, partners who will champion your work and will advocate for your organization, with or without you in the room
7) Trust your intuition and expertise
8) Get plenty of rest. Make sure you and your staff are nourished and cared for inside and outside of the workplaces.
Thank you to everyone who has worked with us!!!
Join the hundreds of thousands of people who are part of our movement to end racial and gender-based violence in the workplace and beyond.
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