API Youth Grant

Hi Everyone,

I hope all is well. Most of you had expressed interest in the APIA Vote Grant that OCAPICA will be offering on behalf of Project API Vote.

Attached is the APIA Youth Grant that OCAPICA’s Policy Department is encouraging for students to take part in for the upcoming November election. Please get the word out to students.

We want them to be as involved as possible. This is such an exciting election to part of!

I have copied the basic information below but please view the attachment for better details:

What Do You Have to Do?

Create a voter education and mobilization project that will get your APIA community to vote for the November 4th Elections—and receive one of six $1,000 grants from OCAPICA’s Project API Vote to do it.

If you are a youth leader, apply for the grant today! Project must be affiliated with a campus or community organization for the funds to be dispersed to. This would be a great fundraising opportunity for your organization!

Project idea must be:

• Non-partisan and support no candidate or ballot Initiative

• Educate and mobilize the Asian and Pacific Islander Community of Orange, Riverside, or San Bernardino County

• Have a bilingual component, preferably in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Samoan, Tongan, Urdu, Hindi, or Tagalog

• INNOVATIVE! Only you know what will best mobilize your peers to vote!

In turn, we ask that you support OCAPICA’s larger Project APIA Vote by:

• recruiting bilingual volunteers to our bilingual phone bank

• Attending Project APIA Vote press events

• Distributing Project APIA Vote education materials into the community

Here are some Voter Education & Mobilization Project Ideas:

-Tabling at ethnic markets

- Class raps/ dorm storming w/ Easy Voter Guides

- APIA ‘Why I’ll Vote’ community survey

- Create a viral video

- Develop a TV public service announcement

- Create an in-language voter song for ethnic radio play

- APIA Voter education forum

- Get out the vote door hangers in APIA neighborhoods

- In-language posters for ethnic businesses

- Guerilla theatre

- T-shirt campaign

- Bhangra the Vote / Luau the Vote Parties

...and much, much more! The innovation is up to you!

To APPLY, submit the following to Tanzila Ahmed, Policy Manager at tahmed@ocapica. org by SEPTEMBER 1^st!

*One 500 word proposal on what you will do

*One 8-week work plan leading up to Nov 4th

*One budget of how the 1000 dollars grant will be spent.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

PEACE,

Asma Men [uhs-ma]

Voter Education Coordinator

Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance

12900 Garden Grove Blvd. Ste 214A

Garden Grove, CA 92843

Tel: 714.636.9095 x 203

Fax: 714.636.8828

amen@ocapica. org

www.ocapica. org