September 29 Funder Briefing: Building A Unified Voice: The Asian American Center For Advancing Justice And How Funders Can Support Collaboration

Time: September 29th, 2010 12pm - 2pm ET (lunch provided)
Location: The Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, NYC

Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Open Society Institute, Unbound Philanthropy and Philanthropy New York

The current economic and political environment pose unprecedented challenges and opportunities for organizations that seek to advance social justice. In response, social justice leaders and funders are looking for new and innovative organizational structures that are designed to achieve maximum impact.

We are excited to invite you to a briefing which examines how four leading Asian American Pacific Islander civil rights organizations are coming together under a new shared brand and building a closer affiliation with one another in order to better advance justice for their communities.

The Asian American Justice Center, the Asian Law Caucus, the Asian American Institute, and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California have engaged in an innovative process to build a more powerful and unified voice for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and develop a common vision and platform for action.

All four of these organizations are well known for their individual work over the past several decades on many issues that are currently the focus of headlines across the country, including immigration, LGBT rights, civil rights and workers’ rights. They have also built legal and advocacy programs that address the systemic barriers immigrants confront in access to health, education and opportunities for political participation.

In the wake of a rapidly changing world, the common brand projects a more unified and cohesive voice and enhances the ability of all of these organizations to advance a more coherent strategic vision to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities that come with such profound change.

In this interactive workshop, you will have the opportunity to dialogue with the Executive Directors of the four organizations and deepen your understanding of how true collaboration can be developed that leverages resources and increases impact and what funders can do to support innovative efforts to build this type of institutional capacity and infrastructure.
 
Speakers (bios)
• Tuyet Le, Executive Director, Asian American Institute
• Stewart Kwoh, President and Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center
• Titi Liu, Executive Director, Asian Law Caucus
• Karen Narasaki, President and Executive Director, Asian American Justice Center

To Register: 
Contact Patrice Simpson at p [dot] simpson [at] fordfound [dot] org or (212) 573-5032 by September 24, 2010.