68 Pageviews Read Stories
- EIN 03-0575412
- (202) 223-9170
- 1612 K St Nw Ste 510 Washington DC 20006-2849 USA
- www.apiavote.org
- Add to Favorites
Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Civil Rights, Voter Education & Registration, Voting Rights
Mission: To encourage and promote civic participation of asian pacific islander americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state and local levels. Apia vote also aims to educate and inform asian & pacific islander american citizens in the united states, on a nonpartisan basis, to register and exercise their right to vote in federal, state and local elections for public offices and to participate in the political process.
Programs: Field and infrastructure building - apia vote works with local nonprofit organizations, coalitions, and civic groups and helps them incorporate civic and voter engagement into their existing frameworks. Apia vote assesses leadership, coalition, and organizational infrastructure between its local and national partners.
leadership development and capacity building - apia vote holds a series of weekend-long leadership trainings for nonprofit staff, community leaders and volunteers in cities across the county. Trainees are taught to run an effective voter-mobilization program and incorporate civic participation into an apia vote and/or coalition's existing structure.
youth programs - apia vote, through its partnerships with key youth coalition partners, encourages student organizers to use toolkits and training provided by apia vote to organize their own voter-engagement programs and solicit volunteers for community-based initiatives. As funding is secured, sub grants are provided to the youth-partner groups for these service-learning programs. Apia vote continues to educate apia youth through workshops at student-run regional conferences, rewarding year-round internships and ongoing youth-centric voter education campaigns through online venues.
research and communications - apia vote is working with its media and community partners to develop a communications infrastructure that will strengthen the capacity to frame and promote appropriate messages that will support the overall education, outreach and mobilization activities at the local level. Through research, local and national surveys, and interviews, apia vote has developed an approach to community and electoral organizing that merges the best of both practices as the integration of local and national priorities and goals begin to take shape.