Cherry Blossom Giving Circle 2011 Community Celebration
Thank you all for attending Wednesday evening’s Cherry Blossom Giving Circle community celebration! We hope you enjoyed the evening through networking with others in the AAPI DC community, learning more about the giving circle, and most importantly, celebrating this year’s giving circle grantees — the Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co Dance Company, and DC Language Access Coalition and its DC Nail Salon Project! The giving circle is very pleased to be making grants of $3,500 to each organization in support of their programs to outreach to the local AAPI community.
Cherry Blossom Giving Circle 2011 Community Celebration
Please join the Cherry Blossom Giving Circle for its 2nd annual reception celebrating this year’s giving circle grantees! The reception will provide an opportunity to network with Asian American community members.
Visit http://cherryblossom11.eventbrite.com for more information and to RSVP. We hope you can join us for this special occasion!
When: Wednesday, Nov 9, 6:00-8:00 pm
Where: Current Sushi
Who: Members and friends of the metro DC/Baltimore AAPI community
2011 Request for Proposals announced
The Cherry Blossom Giving Circle is excited to announce the 2011 request for grant proposals! Click on the link above to access the RFP. Deadline is September 6!
Photos from June event
Giving Circle Event – June 28
Members and friends of the Cherry Blossom Giving Circle are invited to attend a learning and networking opportunity on Tuesday, June 28, from 6:00 – 7:30pm. Over some light refreshments, we’ll have a chance to meet each other and hear about the state of the local AAPI community.
Agenda:
- Update from Noelle Ito, Director of Community Philanthropy, AAPIP
- The state of the local AAPI community, from representatives of the giving circle’s 2010 grantees, Emmaus Services for the Aging, Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (API/DVRP), and Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC)
- Giving circle proposal review process and upcoming events
Location: Association of Small Foundations offices, 1720 N St NW, WDC, 20036
Please RSVP online by going to this link so that we have a good estimate on how much food and drink to buy. For questions, please email Andy Ho at dcgivingcircle at gmail dot com.
Please consider sending this invitation to friends and invite them to attend as well. Thanks and hope to see you there!
Save the Date for Upcoming Events!
The Cherry Blossom Giving Circle is pleased to announce the next giving circle event on Tuesday, June 28. Location and time TBD. We’ll hear updates from several past giving circle grantees on the state of Asian Americans in the local community, and have a chance to meet AAPIP national’s new Director of Community Philanthropy, Noelle Ito, who will be visiting us from NYC.
We’ll also share more about this year’s proposal selection process, which will kickoff in July. From July to October, giving circle members will have the opportunity to be part of the review process, and have input into this year’s giving circle grantees. It will involve several steps over the several months:
- Identifying key grantee criteria
- Issuing a request for proposal
- Collecting the proposals
- Reviewing proposals
- Conducting site visits and/or interviews
- Sharing information with the giving circle members
- Making the decisions
- Informing the grantees and the broader giving circle community through a reception
We’ll hold a giving circle networking reception in October to announce this year’s grantees!
Look for more information on the June 28 event coming soon on this page. Any questions? Please email dcgivingcircle@gmail.com.
Cherry Blossom Festival Walk
Thanks to all of the Cherry Blossom Giving Circle members who came out for the walk for the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation on Saturday! It was a great time with giving circle members and friends.
From the D.C. Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs:
The 2010 United States Census data, released last week, indicates the Asian population grew 38.6% between 2000 and 2010, in the District of Columbia. The total population rose to 21,056 equaling 3.5% of the entire population and making it the fastest growing community. The District’s total Asian American and Pacific Islander (APIA) populations grew 37.5% from 2000 to 2010, totaling 21,358 equaling 3.6% of the city’s entire population.
This rapid growth rate in the APIA population was followed by an increasing White population growth at 31.4%, and Hispanic population at 21.8% growth. Nationally the APIA population grew by 43% from 2000 to 2010 totaling 15,214,265 making it the fastest-growing national population
Most of the District’s Asian residents live in Ward 2 (6,942) followed by Ward 3 (5,146), Ward 6 (3,161), Ward 1 (3,156), Ward 4 (1,218), Ward 5 (1,037), Ward 8 (260), and Ward 7 (136). Asian residents made up 9% of Ward 2 and 7% of Ward 3. The percent of DC’s Asians living in Ward 6 nearly doubled over 10 years from 2.5% in 2000 to 4.2% in 2010. There were increases in the percentage of Asians living in six out of the eight wards with Ward 7 and Ward 8 experiencing modest decreases.
“We are excited about the new data released by the US Census Bureau and believe it provides a great overview of Asian residents in the District of Columbia,” said Soohyun “Julie” Koo, Director of the Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs.
OAPIA recognizes that this data may have undercounting issues but believes it is committed to providing data that can lead to a better understanding and appreciation of the Asian residents in the District of Columbia.
For more questions on this data, please contact Program Coordinator/Grant Manager Neel Saxena at neel.saxena@dc.gov.
Cherry Blossom Freedom Walk
You’re invited to join with other Giving Circle members in the Cherry Blossom Parade Freedom Walk, on Saturday, April 2 from 9am-12noon. It’s a fun way to get to know other giving circle members and to appreciate the beautiful cherry blossom trees together! Please RSVP by March 31 – to RSVP click here.
Get Out and Give Back: Giving Circles Made Easy
The Cherry Blossom Giving Circle is featured in the Washington Life Magazine article on giving circles!
“Giving circles fill a community gap, by supporting the high-impact but small nonprofits that don’t have their own marketing or grant-writing resources. Whether they can publicize these nonprofits to attract a donor or offer their own financial gift, giving circles can raise a nonprofits’ profile. Some giving circles, serve as a mini community foundation by helping givers direct their funds toward a cause that resonates with them. Or, a giving circle could have an emergency network where members can decide to use their personal funds to help others in an emergency.”
Like what you see? Consider joining the Cherry Blossom Giving Circle today!
