Milestones
The Asian Pacific Fund is proud of the many accomplishments it has achieved through out the years. Here are some of our recent milestones.
December 2009 - Joined national collaboration on Census 2010; distributed 19 grants to agencies for census outreach.
June 2009 - Organized and sponsored a presentation for health professionals which, for the first time, addressed childhood obesity among Asians. The presentation was part of a statewide conference co-convened by the California State Departments of Health and Education.
June 2008 - Passed the $5 million milestone in raising endowed funds.
March 2007 - Collaborated with the U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Gas and Electric and other organizations to reach out to Bay Area Asian communities and promote earthquake preparedness. Facilitated the first-ever translation of government earthquake safety materials into Asian languages like Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.
June 2006 - Completed a $1 million matching grant one year ahead of schedule, and established endowment with this gift by an anonymous donor. Reached $3 million mark in grants and awards distributed since the Fund’s inception.
May 2006 - Launched the Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Awards program to support the recognition, professional development and advancement of Asian Americans as leaders of colleges and universities.
September 2005 - Distributed Healing the Spirit: Treatment of Depression Among the Asian Elderly to libraries, health care organizations and community groups in metropolitan centers throughout the U.S. This unique health education film is available in nine languages, including Cantonese, English, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
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In the San Francisco Bay Area there are 1.5 million Asian Americans. The success many Asians have found in the business community and in higher education have misled people into thinking that Asians have no needs. In fact, there are as many Asian children who grow up in poverty as in the general population. In special areas such as mental health, primary health care, domestic violence, and navigating the public school system, Asians face unique challenges that typically receive no public attention in the mainstream media.
The Fund has taken on selected public information projects to address some of these needs. Often we have found partners who support or are directly involved in the development of the project, and we have sometimes aligned our grants to community based organizations to further our public education goals.