Filipiniana Gala 2018
In celebration of the Filipino History Month, the National Federation of the Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) Region V is holding its Filipiniana 2018 Gala to benefit one of our member organization – MENDING FACES that was founded in 2010 by a passionate, highly experienced group of medical professionals and others to make a life-changing difference for children born with facial deformities. Their mission is to help families with children born with facial deformities like cleft lip, cleft palate, and other deformities restore hope and have a brighter future. Since 2010 they have performed hundreds of life-changing surgeries in the Philippines and Columbia. With previous benefit galas, NaFFAA Region V was able to help fishermen and their families regain their source of livelihood by purchasing fishing boats in Bicol when the area was hit by a typhoon on a Christmas day; Helped rebuild an elementary school and multi-purpose buildings in Ormoc and Tacloban that were destroyed by super typhoon Yolanda; Shipped two 40-foot containers of medical equipment and supplies donated by Project Cure after typhoon Frank devastated the province of Aklan; NaFFAA and its member organizations also funded Gawad Kalinga Colorado Village (35 houses) after a landslide in Cabagan, Isabela, Philippines. NaFFAA Region V takes enormous pride in all that it and its members have accomplished. Filipiniana 2018, a benefit @ $60/person Saturday, October 13th | 6PM – 11PM DoubleTree Hilton DTC | 7801 E. Orchard Rd., Greenwood Village 80111 There will be silent auctions, door prizes, cultural dances, live band and dancing. Dinner will be accompanied with performances by different cultural dancers. RSVP: ...
Read MoreNominate an Honorary Chair for the 2018 CDBF
You are invited to nominate an important individual in the community to be the 2018 Honorary Chair of the July Colorado Dragon Boat Festival. We strive to truly educate the general public on the amazing contributions from the APA communities and the amazing individuals that make them up. Please share this information with anyone else you think would want the opportunity to nominate a worthy member within the Asian Pacific American communities: Information: http://www.cdbf.org/about/honorary-chair Nomination form: Honorary Chair Nominations Deadline: May...
Read MoreCongratulations Chance Horiuchi!
The Havana BID Board has hired Chance Horiuchi for the executive director in-training position. Chance will be training under current HBID executive director, Gayle Jetchick, for a full year to learn the ropes before taking over as ED in April of 2019. Gayle can then semi-retire and drop back to part time or help with specific projects only. For the past six years, Chance worked as the Director of Business Development at the Aurora Chamber. She is well connected in the Aurora community and has the business knowledge and energy to continue and expand the Havana BIDs programs. Her first day on The Havana Street job is April 2, 2018. (Pictured: Chance Horiuchi holding the flowers with Gayle Jetchick at the Aurora Chamber Awards Dinner on March 16,...
Read MoreCommunity Responds to Rep Covarrubias
During the March 22, 2017 Colorado House debate regarding House Bill 17-1230, Rep. Covarrubias made hurtful comments that seemed to ignore decades of work intended to ensure that the consequences of Japanese internment and the “…race prejudice, war hysteria, and failure of leadership” would not be repeated in the future. Here is the response from the JACL and a dozen other organizations to Representative Covarrubias’ hurtful comments: Click here… Here is a sampling of some of the recent media coverage of this story: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/state-representative-starts-internment-camp-controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/23/no-time-to-ask-questions-colorado-lawmaker-appears-to-defend-use-of-wwii-japanese-internment-camps/?utm_term=.0aca2c83f0f0 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/lawmakers-respond-after-state-rep-appears-defend-internment-n737836 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colorado-phil-covarrubias-defends-japanese-american-camps_us_58d30379e4b0f838c62f5793 Thank you, Harry Budisidharta, former President of the Mile High JACL, Deputy Director of the Asian Pacific Development Center and Steering Committee Member of the Aurora Asian/Pacific Community Partnership, for your quick and effective response. Rep. Covarrubias told Harry that he is willing to meet with Japanese American and AAPI community leaders to learn more about the history of...
Read MoreClean Energy Leadership Forum
Korean American Community Foundation of Colorado (KACFC) Korea Clean Energy & Leadership Forum Sat., October 24th 10:00 AM – 1:45 PM | Free | Lunch will be served The Inverness Hotel | 200 Inverness Drive West | Englewood, CO 80112 Explore the Korean Clean Energy Policy, technology transfer, business opportunities and network with both Korean government officials and scientists in clean energy leadership. The goal is to raise awareness, create opportunity and inspire future leaders in clean energy. (see announcement for more details…) Honorary Chair: John Barnett, Manager of International Programs , National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Speaker: Bobi Garrett, NREL’s Deputy Laboratory Director for Strategic Planning and Partnerships Named by the Denver Business Journal as one of the region’s top female executives in the energy industry (link to article). Goals of KACFC: Fostering volunteerism to serve community Enabling young leadership Facilitating young entrepreneurship through partnering with business and community for next generation enhancement Register here… www.KACFC.org | www.facebook.com/KACFCO...
Read MoreFUN Partnership Annual Meeting
How can you resist these smiling faces? You won’t want to miss the Annual Meeting of the Partnership! It’s always a fun time with Friends, with good food and an excellent program, as an added bonus! The details follow, but first realize that you will enjoy a six-course meal at the NEW Kim Ba Vietnamese Cuisine, located at the NEW Pacific Ocean Marketplace in Aurora. Picture Me Here will give the keynote. You will also hear some delightful stories and see the images of Bhutanese youth who documented their journey from a refugee camp in Nepal to resettlement in Colorado. Finally, the Co-Chairs will conduct just a little business by introducing the 2015-16 Steering Committee and giving highlights of our past year. So, plan to join us! Tuesday, April 21, 2015 — 5:30 – 8:00 PM Kim Ba Vietnamese Cuisine 12303 E Mississippi Ave., Aurora, CO 80012 (northeast corner at Peoria St., next to Aurora’s new Pacific Ocean Marketplace) $25/person, payable by cash or credit card at the door to ‘Kim Ba”. R.S.V.P. by April 17th: (303) 326-8695 or admin@auroraasian.org ...
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