Pilipinx American Law Society is a student organization at the University of California, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) located in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
Filipino Businesses & Organizations in Oakland, CA
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Filipino Bar Association of Northern California
Established in 1980, the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California (“FBANC”) is an organization of attorneys, judges, law students and paraprofessionals dedicated to serving the Filipino American legal community in Northern California. Through the volunteer work of its members, FBANC offers various programs and events, including regular free legal clinics, professional development and mentorship programs for its law student and attorney members. The organization also provides a voice for and advocates on behalf of Filipino American interests in various forums.
San Francisco, CA
Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc.
We are a Northern CA based nonprofit arts organization and independent publisher of Filipino American lit. We have published three anthologies of Filipino American Literature, with the third dedicated to writings in tribute to Jose Rizal.
PAWA’s main goal is to create and encourage literature and arts for the preservation and enrichment of Filipino and Filipino American historical, cultural and spiritual values.
Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc. (PAWA) evolved from what was Philippine American Women Writers and Artists (PAWWA), an organization established in 1994. In 1998, it was reorganized into PAWA to be more inclusive of the community, and membership became open to other Philippine American writers and artists regardless of gender. The original members envisioned PAWA as a venue to create and encourage literature and arts for the preservation and enrichment of Filipino and Filipino American historical, cultural, and spiritual values, and to bring these to a larger audience. Members of the Board and the general membership support and promote one another’s creative efforts.
Since 2009, we have held our monthly literary and performance series in collaboration with Arkipelago Books, the Bayanihan Center, the Filipino American Center at the SF Public Library, the Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Kundiman, Achiote Press, Poets & Writers, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Eth-Noh-Tec, Eastwind Books of Berkeley, Kearny Street Workshop, and Bird & Beckett Books. We are invested in creating venues for Filipino American artists, and have worked to grow our community across ethnic and aesthetic boundaries. We believe it is important to provide access, and opportunity, which we have also done through fiscal sponsorship of community artists.
San Francisco, CA
Filipino Advocates for Justice
Filipino Advocates for Justice, formerly Filipinos for Affirmative Action, was established in 1973 by students and community leaders in response to the discrimination and alienation faced by the influx of immigrant newcomers from the Philippines.
For more than 40 years Filipino Advocates for Justice has been an advocate for immigrant, worker and civil rights and has sought to help the most vulnerable in the community navigate the challenges and hurdles of life in the US, particularly at-risk middle and high school-age youth, low-wage workers vulnerable to exploitation, newly-arrived immigrants and the undocumented.
Today, FAJ serves the more than 130,000 Filipinos who call the East Bay Area home through its offices in Oakland’s Chinatown and Union City.
FAJ’s mission is to build a strong and empowered Filipino community by organizing constituents, developing leaders, providing services, and advocating for policies that promote social and economic justice and equity.
FAJ’s work is guided by its vision for an empowered Filipino community with the power to advance social and economic justice, and realize democratic and human rights for everyone. Its programs are rooted in Bayanihan principles, a Filipino demonstration of social justice values where a community comes together to help those in need.
Oakland, CA
Filipino American National Historical Society San Francisco Chapter
Founded in 1982, the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) documents and promotes Filipino American history through its archives, conferences, books, programs, films, art and more. With 38 Chapters throughout the USA, FANHS has recognized October as Filipino American History Month for decades.
The mission of FANHS is "to promote understanding, education, enlightenment, appreciation and enrichment through the identification, gathering, preservation and dissemination of the history and culture of Filipino Americans in the United States."
San Francisco, CA
National Alliance for Filipino Concerns
NAFCON is a national alliance of Filipino organizations, institutions, and individuals that responds to the concerns of Filipinos in the US and in the Philippines by creating an action-oriented platform that brings people together through culture & heritage, education, health & wellness, and advocacy.
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Fil-Am Lions Club
The San Francisco Fil-Am Lions Club was chartered on June 2, 1971 as the first Lions Club of Filipino ancestry in the United States. Since then, it's members have gone out far and wide to start and revive numerous other Filipino American clubs within the San Francisco Bay Area, but the club still perseveres, holding to it's roots as a service organization for our communities in San Francisco and the Philippines.
San Francisco, CA
Filipino Community Center San Francisco
Founded in 2004, the Filipino Community Center is dedicated to providing a safe space where Filipino families can access services, receive support, and build community. We foster and develop community empowerment, grassroots leadership, advocacy, and organizing to address the immediate and long term issues of our communities locally, and in the Philippines.
Ten years ago, a group of Excelsior parents, schoolteachers, and community leaders set out to support hundreds of Filipino immigrant airport screeners in the Bay Area who were unjustly laid-off in the post-911 anti-immigrant hysteria. We addressed this pressing issue and also the long-standing unmet needs in the San Francisco Filipino community, and we envisioned a thriving community with equal access to education, health, and decent livelihood. The FCC in its earliest stages sought to provide basic services and a community gathering place in District 11. The original vision and the early work of the FCC already pointed us to a future grounded in the lives and struggles of everyday Filipinos
We believe in bayanihan, where people know their neighbors and work collectively in building strong communities.
We work to increase our collective capacity to address our immediate and long term needs through organizing, advocacy, and service.
We build civic participation and grassroots leadership to strengthen our community and the larger society.
San Francisco, CA
Foundation for Filipina Women's Network
The Foundation for Filipina Women’s Network (FFWN) is the organization for career women of Philippine ancestry. Our passion is to help Filipina women achieve previously unimaginable levels of performance in the public and private sectors. We accomplish this through FFWN’s five strategic directions and by nurturing the growth and influence of our members’ businesses and careers, breaking barriers that make it difficult or impossible to succeed.
FFWN convenes programs and activities that enhance public perceptions of Filipina women's capacities to lead and to build the Filipina community's pipeline of qualified leaders, to increase the odds that many Filipina women will rise to the president position in the private and public sectors worldwide.
San Francisco, CA
SOMA Pilipinas
More Than A Cultural District: SOMA Pilipinas Is Community-In-Action And A Cultural Movement
The cultural heritage district spanning 1.5 square miles honors 120+ history of Filipinos in San Francisco, and celebrates the community’s living legacy of making home, celebrating culture, building community and fighting for economic and racial justice in the rapidly gentrifying South of Market neighborhood.
In 2016, the City of San Francisco officially recognized SOMA Pilipinas as SF’s Filipino Cultural Heritage District, under the leadership of the Filipino-American Development Foundation.
In 2017, SOMA Pilipinas was one of the first selected cultural districts for state designation by the California Arts Council and in 2018 received the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts “Our Town” grant for creative place-keeping.
Since then SOMA Pilipinas has gone on to earn numerous accolades and honors for their work in the South of Market neighborhood from 2020 YBCA 100 Honoree, and Architects International Association SF for revitalization.
Working in solidarity with the other SF Cultural Districts and hand in hand with other Filipino groups, SOMA Pilipinas is inspired by the spirit of bayanihan and the fighting spirit of the community.
SOMA Pilipinas is proud to be part of a community-in-action — and a grassroots movement carrying on the legacy of Filipinos fighting for recognition and racial equity.
San Francisco, CA