Summary Congratulations to our Project Coordinator & Local Policy Organizer, Mar Abat, for leading a workshop with San José State University’s “Transforming Communities: A Movement to Racial Justice”, a visionary annual event designed to catalyze change in our community. In…
Celebrating our 2023 Awareness in Action Cohort & 2022 Lola Scholarship Recipients We had a blast celebrating both the 2022 Lola Scholarship Fund recipients and the completion of our 8th Annual Awareness in Action Program also known as our Filipino…
After a clamorous legislative session, including organizing our 2023 FilAm Policy Symposium and Advocacy Day in Sacramento, our Coalition took a short break and returned last week for a mid-year inflection-reflection point. Last week, our statewide Coalition of FilAm nonprofits,…
Dear mga Kasama, Today we observe Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day. Juneteenth is an annual holiday celebrated on June 19th in the United States that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans and marks the…
Our organization kicked off PRIDE Month by gathering with over 75 incredible community members, educators, artists, poets, civic activists and guest speakers at our first in-person Queer Filipinx Lakbay Summit in San José! On Saturday, June 3rd, we hosted our…
Asian American Voter Empowerment Project (AAVEP) Launched to Increase Voter Turnout in Los Angeles Today, the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California (PWC), LEAD Filipino, and Asian Business Association Foundation, with the support of CAUSE, AAPI’s for Equity, Asian Americans…
About the Program Awareness in Action (AAP) is our 10-week summer Filipino American Studies & Civic Engagement program with a graduation celebration at the end. This summer, we will offer the program in a hybrid format, with in-person sessions taking place at…
Made possible through our partnership with Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI), we have been providing monthly workshops through our health education program called Holistic Healing. Coordinated by our Community Health team, Holistic Healing workshops are free to the public…
We will be hosting an Informational Night and Training for our upcoming Filipinx Advocacy Day tomorrow evening from 6-8 PM (PST) via Zoom.
Register for our upcoming Filipinx Advocacy Day at the California State Capitol. This is the largest convening of Filipina/x/o advocates, educators and community members that come together to advance our shared interests around education, health and human services, civil rights…