Description

Purpose of grant:                            For the AAPI Data project. Amount recommended:                A two-year grant of $200,000. Summary:                               Established in 2013 by Professor Karthick Ramakrishnan in response to inquiries from community organizations, advocates, and journalists, AAPI Data has grown from a special initiative at the Center for Social Innovation of the University of California, Riverside, into a nationally recognized publisher of demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). It serves as a public resource to ensure free access by a wide range of audiences to reliable data, infographics, and policy analysis. With the complexity of issues confronting AAPI subgroups, including disparities within and across AAPI communities, and heightened interest in AAPI among corporations, news media, government agencies, and philanthropy, AAPI Data is poised to extend its contributions through strategic and collaborative work with long-standing national and state partners such as Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian Pacific Fund, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy and Asian American Journalists Association, to name a few. With support from the Luce Foundation, AAPI Data aims to build a national consortium of applied researchers and policy staff from academia, government, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector to improve public understanding of AAPI communities through the production, coordination, and dissemination of timely and impactful research. This consortium will also function as a support network through which AAPI Data and affiliated experts can provide training and technical assistance to consortium members to jump-start and sustain community-engaged research. Activities within this consortium framework will include seminars and workshops on DNA: Data, Narrative, Action; national and regional summits to share best practices, strengthen existing networks, build new relationships, and generate ideas for new projects; and monthly calls to identify pressing needs and coordinate efforts across research institutions in academia, the think tank sector, and community-based organizations. Recognizing that efforts to advance equality for AAPI communities call for, and will benefit from, coordinated, multisector investments in the production and analysis of high-quality data and research, our grant to AAPI Data will enable new opportunities for fostering collaboration and engagement around data disaggregation in the AAPI ecosystem. The requested grant would support staff time and research stipends. Recommendation:                          That the Directors of the Henry Luce Foundation approve a two-year grant of $200,000 to the University of California, Riverside, for the AAPI Data project.   https://aapidata.com https://socialinnovation.ucr.edu/major-initiatives