ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICANS IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION
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Mission Statement
APIAHiP is a national organization that champions the preservation of historic sites and cultural resources significant to Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. We do this by fostering a collaborative network, educating and advocating with the public, and enhancing resources for historic preservation and heritage conservation. Our efforts ensure our significant places and traditions are protected, celebrated, and integrated into future generations.
About This Cause
APIAHiP was formed in 2007 when Asian and Pacific Islander American leaders noticed a lack of representation at state and national professional convenings on historic preservation and heritage conservation. With this gap, those founding members developed an API Caucus at the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual conference the same year, before formally evolving into APIAHiP a few years later. By June 2010, APIAHiP developed and hosted the first Asian Pacific Islander American National Historic Preservation Forum in San Francisco, California. This Forum brought together for the first time Asian and Pacific Islander Americans across the United States and its territories to share various issues and approaches to recognizing, preserving, and celebrating the places that best tell the stories of not only our diaspora but also our shared heritage. Throughout APIAHiP's lifetime, we have continued to host national convenings across the country and territories from Washington D.C. to Honolulu, Hawai'i, each time engaging with new communities while expanding our reach and capacity. Our work includes support and direct services like the nomination of sites to local, state, and national historic registers, developing advocacy strategies for place-saving campaigns, and meeting communities where they are to elevate their grassroots historic preservation causes. In October 2018, before our fifth biennial Forum, APIAHiP obtained 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status and officially registered as a nonprofit organization out of Los Angeles, California. By September 2023, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place program, APIAHiP was empowered to hire full-time staff for the first time ever to carry on the mission and legacy set forth by its founders, board members, volunteers, supporters, and partners from around the world. Today, APIAHiP is a multi-generational, pan-ethnic, and interdisciplinary community of preservationists, urban planners, historians, educators, activists, and advocates who share the common goal of elevating Asian and Pacific Islander American history and heritage through a place-based ethic.