ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
ACLF Northwest is a community-based, nonprofit organization that trains and supports the leadership and civic engagement of Asian Pacific Islanders with a commitment to social justice, community empowerment and public service.
About This Cause
The Asian Pacific Islander Community Leadership Foundation (ACLF) is a community-based, nonprofit organization that trains and supports the leadership of Asian Pacific Islanders (API) with a commitment to social justice, community empowerment and public service. ACLF’s purpose is to provide an environment which fosters the development of individual leadership, community strength, and inter-community unity to promote issues critical to API’s. The key components of our organization include leadership training, political empowerment, community organizing, and mentorship. ACLF is non-partisan and involves any API community interested in participating. HISTORY In December 6, 1998, a group of community leaders from different organizations and government offices met to discuss the need for an organization that could serve a growing need: the ability to train and nurture emerging leaders. This group developed a framework for a program to nurture leaders, who embrace values of community and social justice, to affect social change through proactive, principle practice. The founding committee adopted a mission statement and began to lay down the ideas that would lead to the founding ACLF. ACLF had its first Community Leadership Program class in 1999-2000 and has had one every year since then. Mission Build individual and community leadership that: > Promotes greater economic, social and political justice. > Develops and mentors ethical, highly-skilled, and caring API leaders. > Strengthens the unique and diverse voices of the united API community in the democratic process. Objectives > To prepare API’s for leadership positions in the public, private, political, and non-profit sectors. > To strengthen API influence in the democratic process. > To increase API involvement in civic participation. Core values > Social and political justice > Non-discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, age, ability or sexual orientation. > APIs must be represented in all echelons of business, academics, government, nonprofit and political sectors.