AAPI Women Lead

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Happy Birthday to AAPI Women Lead. I am proud to be the co-founder and VP of Programs and Operations of AAPI Women Lead. Thank you, Connie W., for sharing the lessons that we have learned about building a strong team and a strong movement to end gender based violence. The movement is only possible with your support. For our 7th birthday, consider donating to www.aapiwl.org to help us continue the movement and to help amplify our communities' brilliant and hidden stories.

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. Donate at www.aapiwl.org.

These continue to be some trying times. We want to take the opportunity to recognize and thank?Joy Reid?and the?ReidOut team for their groundbreaking work and support for our communities. Thank you Joy and the ReidOut team for being one of the first national media outlets to amplify the issues impacting our communities in the United States - specifically around the racial and gender violence our communities have long experienced and the power of our leadership. The Reid Out was an invaluable resource and platform for many important voices. We thank you?Joy?and the Reid Out team for your journalism, leadership and solidarity. In 2021, we presented with our annual Solidarity Award. We share with everyone her remarks to our community. May we always support one another and build new worlds together. Thank you.

Our ED Connie had the opportunity to chat with the fierce and brilliant Amanda Seales! They talk about ANHPI survivors, solidarity, and the holistic approach we take at AAPI Women Lead to ending gender violence. Watch the full episode at https://lnkd.in/eUNDGfpd.

Last Friday, our team partnered with Fabletics, Fab Kids and the Alameda County Assessor’s office for our first ever Clothing Drive. Together, we distributed over?1500 articles of clothing and shoes?to families across 5 different cities and across more than 6 organizations! All of the clothes and shoes went to multiple under-resourced community groups in the Bay Area, including Oakland Unified School District Schools, Rudsdale Continuation School,?Oakland Academy of Knowledge,?BRAVE Bay Area (BAWAR), Raising Leaders at Hayward Adult School, Daily Bowl, Centro De Servicios, and others. Thank you to Fabletics, Fab Kids for the donations, and?the Alameda County Assessor's Office and the Daily Bowl?for lending their delivery trucks and support. For inquiries about future donation drives, email us at [email protected].

Did you know that less than 1% of philanthropic dollars goes to funding AAPI causes? You can help to change that. Consider donating to AAPI Women Lead for Giving Tuesday. We are grateful for you and your commitment to building new worlds with us. ?? www.aapiwl.org/donate

"I write to remind us that we are a powerful community. Since our inception, our AAPI Women Lead community has met challenges and catastrophes head on, and we have done this together - with you. We’ve done this through the unapologetic leadership of our Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander women, girls, and non-binary communities. At the center of our work is our commitment to and our holistic approach to ending gender violence against our ANHPI communities. We are survivor-led and survivor-powered. This is how we build our new worlds." Read the full letter by signing up for our newsletter on our website at aapiwl.org.

Did you know that up to 55% of Asian women report experiencing intimate physical and/or sexual violence during their lifetime? And 68% of Pacific women report that they have experienced physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The premise of the day is to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden. As an organization working to end racial and gender-based violence with a survivor-centered approach to research and education, we need your support. We are raising $50,000 until the end of the year, so join our movement to end racial and gender-based violence by donating to us at aapiwl.org/donate.

Dear Community, We are with you. And we are more clear about our vision and responsibilities than we have ever been. With the current political climate and elections, our organization strengthens our commitment to ending violence against our communities in the US and across the globe. This period does and will not lead us to despair. It strengthens us. The lessons fuel our determination to build new worlds where our communities are safe, free, and liberated. We call on all community members to strengthen their commitments to keep each other safe and to build new worlds alongside us. We have always needed one another. And we are stronger together. Let us build on what we know, have experienced, and the growing global movement to resist violence against us and to build new worlds. We must and will keep each other safe. And as always, solidarity is a verb.?Take good care of yourselves and each other. Rest to reflect and keep building. In community, AAPI Women Lead