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APIAVote Past
& Present
NATIONAL COALITION PARTNERS
Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Hmong National Development
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium, Inc.
Organization of Chinese Americans, Inc.
APIAVote Greek Alliance
National Asian American Student Conference
Sikh Mediawatch and Resource Task Force
South Asian American Voting Youth
Asian American Village Online
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Congress of Vietnamese Americans
South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow
Intersted in becoming a national or local APIAVote partner?
Please contact info@apiavote.org.
Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS)is dedicated to increasing participation of individuals of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage at all levels of the political process, from community service to elected office. As such, APAICS is developing APIA Voter Profiles for the nine top-tiered target states of the APIAVote effort and outreaching to APIA elected officials at the federal, state, and local level to join APIAVote and solicit support from the community to increase APIA civic engagement.
The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), founded in 1992 with the strong support of the AFL-CIO is the first and only organization of Asian Pacific American trade unionists. Since its inception, APALA has been committed to organizing the unorganized, mobilizing the Asian Pacific American community to support workers rights, and building alliances between labor and community.
APALA VOTE 2004, a non partisan voter registration, voter education, and get-out-the vote program is up and running. This program is designed to break the cycle of low voter turnout so that in future years political campaigns recognize the voting power of Asian American Pacific Islanders. It is not sufficient to simply register APIA voters. It is very important we help APIAs understand the issues at stake that affect their everyday lives. We are committed to partnering with community organizations to educate and mobilize so APIA voices are heard. APALA is focusing its efforts in states that have Asian American Pacific Islanders with populations of over l00,000, such as Nevada, Washington, Florida, Michigan and Minnesota.
Hmong National Development (HND) is a national non-profit organization developing capacity to ensure full participation of the Hmong people in society. HND works with local and national organizations, public and private entities, and individuals to promote educational opportunities, to increase community capacity, and to develop resources for the well-being, growth, and full participation of Hmong in society.
HND will compile a list of Hmong American voter mobilization and civic participation activities happening across the country so that they can network with each other. HND will also register individuals to vote via our conference, website, listserv etc. HND will also participate with APIAVote to work on materials that can become available to local civic participation efforts, provide training and technical assistance to local civic engagement projects with Hmong Americans as appropriate to ensure that all community members are registered to vote in 2004.
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) has a mission of strengthening communities to reflect the social, political, and economic concerns and perspectives of APA women and girls; inspiring leadership and promoting the visibility and participation of APA women and girls in the political process and within the broader national and international women's movement; and creating a vehicle for local activists to connect with others across the country to share strategies and form lasting coalitions around policy initiatives and grassroots organizing campaigns. NAPAWF will be working with local coalitions around the country, encouraging its membership base to get out and volunteer with APIA mobilization efforts.
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) is a coalition of more than 40 community-based organizations that joined together in 1999 in order to impact public policy, leverage resources, and garner support for issues critical to AAPI communities. Our member organizations are mostly direct-service providers who work in AAPI enclaves and neighborhoods throughout the U.S. The organization is governed by a 22-member Board of Directors comprised of experienced, community development professionals who lead organizations that serve a wide array of ethnic communities and areas of need within AAPI communities.
On May 20-22, National CAPACD hosted its annual convention in Los Angeles at the Wilshire Grand Hotel. A major part of the convention was "Power of Our Voices: National AAPI Town Hall," which included dialogue and interaction with local, state, and national elected officials to address National CAPACD's policy agenda. Included throughout the convention and the town hall was an emphasis for organizations to work on voter registration and get out the vote activities in their local communities in this important election year. National CAPACD is partnering with APIA Vote and National Voice to support these efforts of our community based organizations.
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium, Inc. (NAKASEC) is a national organization that seeks to educate and empower Korean American communities nationwide. NAKASEC was founded by five Korean American community organizations located in major cities across the United States. Our founding conference in October of 1994 was a culmination of the work that the founding organizations had been building for over ten years in their respective communities.
NAKASEC's civic engagement and voter empowerment campaign is a comprehensive, multi-year effort focusing on new, immigrant, limited English proficient, and senior voters as well as young, U.S.-born voters. Broadly, the campaign targets 4 groups: 1. Registered voters who vote regularly; 2. Registered voters who are not likely to vote; 3. Citizens who are unregistered to vote; and 4. Eligible non-citizens (legal permanent residents) who will be linked to the citizenship process. Most of the intensive and comprehensive work will be done in cities where NAKASEC affiliates are based, in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. The components of the campaign include: voter education, voter assistance, voting rights advocacy, voter research, Get Out The Vote, and issue advocacy.
Founded in 1973, the Organization of Chinese Americans, Inc. (OCA) is a national non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization of concerned Chinese Americans. With the participation of over 80 chapters and affiliates, OCA is dedicated to securing the rights of Chinese American and Asian American citizens and permanent residents through legislative and policy initiatives at all levels of the government. OCA aims to embrace the hopes and aspirations of the nearly 2 million citizens and residents of Chinese ancestry in the United States as well as to better the lives of the 10 million Asian Americans across the country.
OCA has been involved with APIAVote efforts since 1996. OCA is currently soliciting support from all of its 80 member chapters and affiliates to work with local APIAVote coalitions, and is specifically committed to outreaching to APIA youth. Its chapters are integrating into local voter projects across the nation and have committed to registering 10,000 new voters for 2004. In addition, OCA is assisting in the development of APIAVote’s media plan, which includes updating the APIAVote website.
The APIAVote Greek Alliance (AGA) is comprised of national and regional APIA Greek-lettered societies, which stand strong as Asian Pacific Islander American interest fraternities and sororities linked to educational, service, and leadership opportunities. As APIA fraternities and sororities are established, community organizations, the AGA is reaching into the Asian Pacific Islander American Greek system to integrate voter registration and mobilization into undergraduate activities, recruit APIA youth on college campuses to host coordinated voter registration drives on campus, and turn out the APIA Youth Vote.
National Asian American Student Conference (NAASCON) originated in 2001 and will be holding the first ever national APA college student conference November 5-7, 2004. APA students of all different ethnicities from all over the country will come together to network and dialogue on issues affecting our community and demonstrate our power to create change. NAASCon’s 2004 Voting Project, in conjunction with APIA Vote 2004, is centered around providing resources and information to the APA student organizations coordinating on-campus voter registration, education, Get Out The Vote efforts (GOTV), as well as off-campus community voter outreach.
Sikh Mediawatch and Resource Task Force (SMART) is a national nonprofit organization that has been empowering Sikh Americans since 1996 by providing services and creating educational materials to ensure the community’s full participation in civil society. During 2004, SMART’s Regional Directors and Local Representatives will register voters at community events and religious gatherings. In addition, the organization will pursue voter education efforts with partner organizations through candidate forums and voter guides.
South Asian American Voting Youth (SAAVY) is a new national non-partisan organization that educates, organizes and mobilizes South Asian American youth 18-25 years old. The project is a youth led effort with board members all under the age of 30, and we believe in empowering the next generation with mentors, trainings and resources to get politically organized.
The "Vote SAAVY" national campaign running this fall will register and mobilize thousands of South Asians to register to vote and got to the polls. SAAVY fellows are being hired for 15 campuses based on the high concentration of South Asians in that campus community. Currently, SAAVY already has student leaders in the following cities: Ann Arbor, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Houston, Orlando, Gainesville, New York City. SAAVY also has online resources, such as the "Vote SAAVY" Campaign kit (which you can download on www.saavy.org), and SAAVY trainings which will be happening all across the country.
Media Partner
Asian American Village Online (AAV) is the APA community site of the Multicultural Villages network by IMDiversity.com. Along with our sister Villages serving African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, working women and other diverse professionals, we are dedicated to fostering increased workforce diversity and equal opportunity for all. In the 1990s, we sponsored A Constructive Dialogue on Race, a several-month, multicultural "virtual town meeting" in response to the President's Initiative on Race, followed by a Candidates' Diversity Q&A in 2000, and a feature section on APA voting and anti-Asian campaign tactics in the 2002 midterms. In 2004, AAV will publish daily news and features about the election, APA platform concerns, and economic and social issues, as well as promote registration and poll-monitoring through APIAVote.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), founded in 1974, protects the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation, advocacy, and community education. Since September 11, 2001, AALDEF has provided free legal consultations and representation to 9-11 detainees, hate crime victims, and others affected by the anti-immigrant backlash. In addition, AALDEF has organized legal clinics, trainings on individual rights, and community meetings across the New York metropolitan area.
AALDEF will monitor hundreds of polling sites to document incidents of voter discrimination on Election Day and, for the first time, will expand its multilingual exit poll of Asian American voters to eight states: Michigan, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Election Day activities include a multilingual voter hotline (800-966-5946), election monitoring, and multilingual exit polling.
Founded in 1986, the National Congress of Vietnamese Americans (NCVA) is a nonprofit community advocacy organization working to advance the cause of Vietnamese Americans in a plural but united America – e pluribus unum – by participating actively and fully as civic minded citizens engaged in the areas of education, culture and civil liberties. NCVA is igniting activism in Vietnamese and Asian Pacific American communities across the nation to register, organize, and vote November 2. NCVA aims to: promote active participation of Vietnamese and Asian Pacific Americans in both civic and national matters and in community engagements, defend human and civil rights secured by law for Vietnamese and Asian Pacific Americans; eliminate prejudices, stereotypes and ignorance against Vietnamese and Asian Pacific Americans, promote economic development and self sufficiency for Vietnamese and Asian Pacific Americans, foster youth leadership, and promote the cultural heritage of Vietnamese and Asian Pacific Americans.
South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow (SAALT) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the full and equal participation by South Asians in the civic and political life of the United States. SAALT’s work is grounded in cultivating relationships with South Asian organizations and community members around the country, and collaborating with broader civil and immigrant rights movements.
How do I become an APIA Vote Partner?
Individuals, Organizations, and Elected Officials are welcome to join the APIAVote campaign! Please email info@apiavote.org if you would like more information about becoming an APIAVote Partner.
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