2024 Year in Review

Championing

for AANHPI Communities

Reflections on this past year

“TAAF remains steadfast in our mission of building safety, belonging, and prosperity for AANHPIs.”

Norman Chen

CEO, The Asian American Foundation

Dear Friends,

2024 has been a year of innovation, impact and growth for TAAF. We’ve been on the ground floor of supporting new initiatives, launched first-of-their kind studies, and invested in organizations and people making meaningful change. We’ve also taken time to listen and learn from deep conversations with community leaders, grantees, partners, and others to better serve our diverse Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community.

Our mission is to help our communities thrive, and to strive for safety, belonging and prosperity for all AANHPIs. We have the unique capability to advance these goals through a combination of investment, innovation, and a powerful national network:

We invest in nonprofits and AANHPI-led initiatives, connecting changemakers with the resources they need.

Invest

We create innovative solutions to meet the moment, tapping into our unparalleled network of leaders, decision makers, and visionaries to drive systemic change.

Innovate

We convene leaders across all sectors, cultures, and geographies to address the needs and aspirations of the diverse AANHPI population.

Convene

We’re proud of all we’ve learned and accomplished this year, and we look forward to continuing to work together in our efforts to ensure a brighter future for the AANHPI community.

In solidarity,

‍Norman Chen
CEO, The Asian American Foundation

Focus Areas

To solve the vast and complex needs of our community, we work across five areas.

When we fight hate, we make our communities safer. When we expand AAPI studies, we teach our youth empathy. And when we improve AANHPI representation on screen, we show how much our stories matter. Our focus areas are critical avenues to create sustainable change for the AANHPI community: lasting safety, belonging, and prosperity.

The AANHPI community is underrepresented and under-resourced. TAAF leads with critical initiatives to unlock resources and strengthen AANHPI leadership across industries.

Resources & Representation

TAAF prioritizes data and research as key levers of change, providing critical foundational research to inform public policy, community-based solutions and long-term systemic change.

Data & Research

AANHPI stories are American stories and they deserve to be told and celebrated. TAAF aims to improve AANHPI representation in mainstream media to combat harmful stereotypes and elevate empowering stories.

Narrative Change

To fill a critical gap in knowledge in K-12 schools, and create a sense of shared humanity, TAAF aims to accelerate and expand efforts to teach AANHPI studies as part of inclusive history in all 50 states.

Education

To truly root out hate and violence, TAAF is working to provide critical infrastructure, resources, and support to address anti-AAPI hate and violence across the country.

Anti-Hate & Safety

Our Impact

$2.81 Billion

reported thus far to AANHPI community and organizations

as part of the AAPI Giving Challenge

50%

Of AANHPI population

Covered by TAAF’s Anti-Hate National Network, made up of 56 grantee partners collectively serving 14 regions

12,456 individuals

Trained in upstander or bystander safety and protection practices

Via the TAAF Anti-Hate National Network in 2024

Grants, sponsorships, and awards in 2024

To over 89 organizations (as of Dec 1)

4,052

Press hits

For May Heritage Month

9,681

AANHPIs surveyed in our research this year

Including 2024 STAATUS Index, Youth Mental Health Study, and New York and Seattle Safety Studies

6,684

Survivors and victims of hate & bias

Served by TAAF’s Anti Hate National Network

Corporates

who joined TAAF ERG Network

4,465

Leaders, community members, and grantees

Convened at TAAF events

286

Lesson plans available on the AAPI History Hub

Created with 19 different educational partners

$34.3 Million

Contributed by Giving Challenge partners

To AANHPI community & causes in 2023

Languages

Available for AAPI Hate Tracker

Rising and influential storytellers

In entertainment and journalism supported in Narrative Change

Our Work

To make meaningful progress towards safety, belonging and prosperity, we innovate with, invest in, and convene the AANHPI community.

Safety

In order for our communities to thrive, we must ensure their safety.

Since our founding in 2021, TAAF has prioritized building safety at both the local and national levels. We’ve researched the impacts of anti-Asian hate, and we've invested in organizations on the front lines of fighting hate every day. We’ve brought together partners from community, corporate, philanthropy, media, and government sectors to collaborate and strategize on making AANHPI communities safer.

Asian American Perspectives: City Safety Studies

The AAPI Anti-Hate & Safety National Network

AAPI Hate Tracker

TAAF Anti-Hate National Network in Action: CISC

The AAPI Anti-Hate & Safety National Network Convening

National Network convening quote 1

"TAAF is doing such an amazing job uplifting other nonprofit groups and building awareness on a national scale. I do appreciate the connections that we made and the guidance from other groups, and lastly, sharing resources and experiences."

Anti-Hate National Network Convening attendee

National Network convening quote 2

"Collaboration is key in breaking the cycle of hate against vulnerable populations. When communities exchange ideas, resources, and strategies, that's where the foundation change or progress is built, and that is what exactly this event did from the first day to the second."

Anti-Hate National Network Convening attendee

Belonging

Lifting up authentic AANHPI histories and stories, and creating spaces that reflect our lived experiences, to foster a true sense of belonging.

Representation in education, entertainment, media, and research matters—we dismantle stereotypes and create a shared humanity by producing and amplifying AANHPI stories and experiences.

Fighting to Belong! Graphic Novel

AAPI History Hub

STAATUS Index 2024

TEAACH Field Guide & Executive Summary

NY Times Sponsorship

AAPI Culinary Convening

Sunrise Collective

AAPI Heritage Heroes

Heritage Heroes quote

“Traditional form of therapy is very individual. But in an Asian culture, we work well in a collective manner. And when it comes to ballroom dance, you're coming in as a collective community. That's how we learn and build connection. That's the Asian form of healing.”

Nina Loc, Behavioral Health Director, Chinatown Service Center (LA), in “Joy (To Dance Again)”

Youth Mental Health Study & Events

Youth Mental Health quote

"Starting the conversation is what's going to end the stigma, and we need to start the conversation in saying that mental health affects everyone. Stress is something that's common, anxiety, depression, and all of these things are combatable. All of these things can be dealt with. It really does take a village to handle mental health. And when we start the conversation and we acknowledge that mental health is something that affects us all, the stigma is going to end."

Student at Palo Alto High School

Prosperity

We can build thriving AANHPI communities when we level the playing field and remedy historic underinvestment.

AANHPIs deserve the opportunity to achieve success, and to be represented at all levels of leadership—we do this by filling critical gaps in philanthropic giving, investing in talent pipelines, and inviting partners to join us in making an impact.