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An organization of Filipino worker and migrants in New Jersey dedicated to fighting for rights and welfare of Filipinos in the U.S., and for the genuine democracy and freedom in the Philippines.
Migrante New Jersey, formerly known as the Filipino Immigrants and Workers Organizing Project (FIWOP) is a mass organization of Filipino migrant workers and their families. We seek to educate, organize and mobilize the low-income and working-class Filipino families in New Jersey.
Migrante New Jersey works in partnership with a number of organizations and local agencies to address the urgent issues faced by the Filipino community. We hope to build our members’ capacity through education, research, advocacy, campaigning, networking, and community organizing.
Professional Filipino American Youth (PFAY) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit networking organization for young professional Filipino Americans (“Fil-Ams”). Founded in November 2017 in New Jersey, PFAY seeks to gather ambitious Fil-Ams who are established in their careers for the purposes of building a community of young professionals.
From government and accounting to marketing and technology, our members come from a variety of diverse industries. However, as minorities, we may be the first of our communities to break out into these fields, where there are very few colleagues or mentors who look like us and opportunities for career growth are often not available or offered to us.
PFAY is a community of young, passionate Fil-Am professionals. We provide a safe space to empower our members, socially and professionally, to surpass their career goals and become leaders in their industries.
Anakbayan is a youth and student organization working to educate, organize and mobilize our community to address important issues that affect Filipinos in the US and the Philippines. We aim to unite Filipino youth of all backgrounds in order to achieve genuine freedom and democracy in the Philippines.
Anakbayan is a comprehensive National Democratic mass organization of the Filipino youth that aims to arouse, organize and mobilize youth for national democracy with a socialist perspective.
It unites youth workers, farmers, urban poor, students, professionals, women, migrants, Moro and other national minorities to contribute to the advancement and success of the National Democratic struggle of the Filipino people. Along with the struggle for the immediate and long-term needs of the youth, it will strongly and deeply integrate with the strength and the struggle of the toiling masses.
Founded on November 30, 1998, the day of birth of the great revolutionary Andres Bonifacio and the founding of the first comprehensive youth mass organization, it holds the principles and upholds the great and honorable tradition of Kabataang Makabayan (KM). As a continuation of the beginnings of the Katipunan and KM, it strongly stands for, unites, and advances the struggle of the people for national freedom and democracy against the semi-colonial and semi-feudal system that is governed by imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism.
Since its founding, Anakbayan has been arousing, organizing and mobilizing thousands of youth for National Democracy through its chapters across the country. It tightly unites the struggles of the youth sector with the struggles of all the masses.
The Filipino American National Historical Society New Jersey Chapter (the FANHS New Jersey Chapter) was established as the 27th Chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) that was founded in 1982 in Seattle. It’s a community-based organization whose mission is to preserve, document, and present Filipino American history and to support scholarly research and artistic works which reflect that rich past.
Our mission is to further promote the interests of our organization and our members to the community. We strive to make a difference by educating the public and expanding our reach.
PAFCOM is the biggest not-for-profit organization in the state, led by inspired community leaders with bold, implementable ideas and powered by legions of engaged members coming from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. It is a village...a community that has made it its responsibility to give Filipino Americans the encouragement to speak up, be heard, and take action.
Central to PAFCOM's vision is the assimilation of Filipino Americans into the mainstream America, together with its various ethnic communities. This vision is to be kept alive by its diverse benevolent missions mostly aimed to benefit the deserving residents of Jersey City, NJ and those residing in adjacent communities.
MISSION
1. To nourish closer relationship among Filipino Americans as well as with other American communities and multi- ethnic groups to achieve a more neighborly community life.
2. To develop a well-focused, supportive socio-economic and educational plan that will extend to the elderly, handicapped, youth and families in need in order to help improve their quality of life.
3. To support PAFCOM in its effort to preserve our Filipino cultural heritage to strengthen our identity, to enrich the way of life of the present and future generation of Filipino Americans; and to promote understanding of tolerance to each other in these widely-culturally diverse communities. Its ultimate goal is to have a faithful, sustained, fulfillment of the above missions and its safe delivery to the intended beneficiaries under a well thought- out plan and mechanism.
The Association was formed by people who knew each other as relatives, friends or co-workers. Some met one another at Church or were treated medically in a hospital or doctor’s office. Formerly strangers, the “charter members” began to encounter each other at other functions, primarily baptismal parties or birthdays. Living in a “foreign country” with its pressures to melt away languages and cultures, they chose to support one another in strengthening their Christian values and maintaining the traditions and practices common to Filipinos. Pride as a people was principal in all deliberations. Networking among Filipinos was considered of utmost importance if the individual was not only to survive but to succeed in their profession. There arose a determination to use their talents, time and treasure to improve the community and country in which they lived so that they could say at one and the same time, “Tunay na Pilipino kami” (We are truly Filipino) and “We are patriotic Americans”.
In the beginning “the charter members” were a relatively small local group of families in Mercer County, living principally in the townships of Ewing, Hamilton, Lawrence, West Windsor/Plainsboro, Princeton, Pennington and Hopewell. They desired to build a community of fellowship, service and support. Most of them were professionals with a strong concentration of people working in the medical field as Doctors and Nurses. Surprise! Surprise! This is hardly strange, since the Philippines is noted for its educated citizenry, especially in the field of nursing, engineering and medicine. There has always been a “brain drain” of people from the Philippines who have enriched and improved the various countries to which they have immigrated, in particular, the United States.
Filipino-American Community Development Center of Ocean County Inc, is a registered 501-c3 non-profit organization in Toms River, NJ. It branched out from NARRA: The Filipino-American Association of Ocean County or FIL-AMA. With its founders, leaders and the unifying mission to build a Community Center, FCDC was incorporated to synergize its efforts with a common vision.
We at the Filipino-American Community & Development Center of Ocean County Inc's goal to build a Community Center that can serve many purposes but are not limited to the following:
- a place where Filipino-Americans can gather to celebrate culture, to serve the community
- create a "HOME away from HOME"
- to have a physical concentration of Filipino-Americans sharing ideas and promoting history and education
- strive to preserve our Filipino heritage in Ocean County and integrate within local communities
The FCDC logo is represented by the Narra tree. It is the National Tree of the Philippines. We take and embrace the joyful image to envision what it takes and most importantly, what it means to be a Filipino-american. As we plant our National Narra Tree into the common ground of American soil, it is a clear reminder that our heritage has become a strong enrichment for American diversity.
Anthony D. Luis is an Associate in Rawle & Henderson’s New York office. Anthony concentrates his practice with the defense of clients involving commercial motor vehicle litigation, medical malpractice, oral surgery & dental malpractice, architectural/engineering malpractice, construction cases, workers' compensation and commercial litigation. Anthony served as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens as a prosecutor in the Homicide Investigation Unit, Domestic Violence Unit, and the Felony Trial Bureau where he tried numerous cases to verdict including jury trials.
He is admitted to practice in New York, and before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
Anthony received his Juris Doctor at Western New England University School of Law in Springfield, MA in 1999. He earned a B.A. in Political Science and English in 1996 from State University of New York at Geneseo. He was a student law clerk for Judge George Bundy Smith of the New York Court of Appeals.
PERTINENT EXPERIENCE:
Assistant District Attorney, Queens District Attorney’s Office, Kew Gardens, NY, 1999-2003
