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It is essential that we equip the next generation of leaders with all the tools at our disposal in order to best prepare them to succeed.


AAPI Advocacy Alliance

AAPI College Internships

APIA Vote

Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies

Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Strives engaging, educating, and empowering AAPI communities to strengthen their voices and cultivate young AAPI student leaders to explore a career in the public sector or the political arena.

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Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies

Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Works to advance human and civil rights for Asian Americans, and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all through civil rights advocacy in Washington, D.C.

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Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies

Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies

Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies

Focuses on developing leadership, building public policy knowledge, and filling the political pipeline for AAPIs to pursue public office at the local, state, and federal levels.

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Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs

Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs

Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies

Teaches leadership and advocacy by placing students at local, state, and federal legislatures throughout the country to  engage in leadership and advocacy.

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Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Association

Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs

Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Association

Provides students who are dedicated to public service a substantive, meaningful work and educational experience in the California State Legislature.

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College to Congress

Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs

Asian Pacific Islander Capitol Association

Disrupts the pipeline of Congressional staff and systemically changing the ways our laws are written by offering financial support to low-income, high-achieving students to cover the actual costs of an internship.

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Conference on Asian Pacific Americans Leadership

Conference on Asian Pacific Americans Leadership

Conference on Asian Pacific Americans Leadership

Seeks to empower Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander youth by increasing access to public service opportunities and building a strong AANHPI public service pipeline.

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International Leadership Foundation

Conference on Asian Pacific Americans Leadership

Conference on Asian Pacific Americans Leadership

Trains and develops AANHPI college students from across the nation by strengthening policy interests and enhancing leadership potential to fostering future public service leaders. 

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JACL Mike M. Masaoka Congressional Fellowship

Conference on Asian Pacific Americans Leadership

JACL Norman Y. Mineta and Daniel K. Inouye Fellowship

The fellowship provides the unique opportunity to be placed in a Congressional office where they gain firsthand knowledge of policy creation.

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JACL Norman Y. Mineta and Daniel K. Inouye Fellowship

IMPACT! Filipino-American National Internship Program

JACL Norman Y. Mineta and Daniel K. Inouye Fellowship

The fellowship provide the opportunity to work on advocacy at a national level through the National JACL office based in Washington, D.C.

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LEAP Emerge (Southern California)

IMPACT! Filipino-American National Internship Program

IMPACT! Filipino-American National Internship Program

Designed to empower rising young leaders by providing students with practical leadership skills and the opportunity to immerse themselves' in Southern California’s API community.

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IMPACT! Filipino-American National Internship Program

IMPACT! Filipino-American National Internship Program

IMPACT! Filipino-American National Internship Program

Provides Filipino-American a firsthand look at the American government and political system to engage civically, and to reflect on the role they, as future leaders, might play in strengthening the US-Philippine relationship

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National Endowment for Democracy

National Endowment for Democracy

National Endowment for Democracy

An independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

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OCA-Asian Pacific Advocates

National Endowment for Democracy

National Endowment for Democracy

Provides the opportunity to build relationships, meet with legislative officials, and engage in leadership workshops.

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SikhLEAD Washington Internship

National Endowment for Democracy

SikhLEAD Innovation Fellows Program

Develops leadership skills & encourage political and civic engagement by providing an experiences in a congressional office, federal agency, or social-profit organization. 

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SikhLEAD Innovation Fellows Program

Sylvia Rivera Transgender Law Project

SikhLEAD Innovation Fellows Program

Provides the opportunity for aspiring Sikh American entrepreneurs to develop professionally through the exposure and evaluation of breakthrough technologies emerging out of federal laboratories and academic research centers over the summer. 

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Seeding Change

Sylvia Rivera Transgender Law Project

Sylvia Rivera Transgender Law Project

Develops the skills, leadership, and commitment of young people to organize in our communities for racial, economic, and gender justice.

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Sylvia Rivera Transgender Law Project

Sylvia Rivera Transgender Law Project

Sylvia Rivera Transgender Law Project

Grows one's leadership skills while developing and coordinating community workshops, discussions, celebrations and events for low income trans, intersex, gender non-conforming people.

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Thai American National Internship Program

Thai American National Internship Program

Thai American National Internship Program

Provides a firsthand look at government in Washington D.C. and allows future leaders to reflect on the role they might have on  enhancing the voice of the Thai community.

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The Climate Initiative

Thai American National Internship Program

Thai American National Internship Program

Works to influence and foster climate concern among communities and decision-makers. Carrying out a vision to promote and enact real change within the climate change communications space in order to inspire other youth voices along the way. 

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US-Asia Institute

Thai American National Internship Program

US-Asia Institute

Gives students a unique opportunity for hands-on experience in the field of U.S.-Asian affairs. Interns play an active role in organizing educational programming, overseas Congressional staff delegations, forums, receptions, and diplomatic off-the-record briefings. 

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Respect Ability

Washington Leadership Program

US-Asia Institute

Works to create systemic change in how society views and values people with disabilities, and that advances policies and practices that empower people with disabilities to have a better future. 

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RISE Fellowship

Washington Leadership Program

Washington Leadership Program

A student-led campaign advocating for free college and students’ basic needs. Through permanent investments in college student organizing, RISE's mission is to make higher education accessible and affordable for everyone. 

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Washington Leadership Program

Washington Leadership Program

Washington Leadership Program

Developing the next generation of South Asian Leaders by taking promising college students and places them in Congressional offices and government agencies accompanied by a structured leadership curriculum

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AAPI College Fellowships

Banyan Impact Fellowship

Cargill Global Scholars Program

Cargill Global Scholars Program

An immersive bi-national volunteer service program that creates a lasting US-India relationship by broadening the existing constituency of future leaders.

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Cargill Global Scholars Program

Cargill Global Scholars Program

Cargill Global Scholars Program

A two-year scholarship program that provides financial support to undergraduate students in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and the United States.

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Critical Language Scholarship

Cargill Global Scholars Program

Critical Language Scholarship

An immersive summer opportunity for American college and university students to learn languages essential to America’s engagement with the world.

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Fulbright Grants

Key into Service Scholarship

Critical Language Scholarship

The grant allows for individually-designed study/research projects or an English Teaching Assistantship (ETA). Grantees usually plan their own programs in one of 150 countries.

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Key into Service Scholarship

Key into Service Scholarship

Key into Service Scholarship

The Phi Beta Kappa scholarship will provide each scholar with a $5,000 and the ability to  participate in a conference that provides training, mentoring, and reflection on pathways into government careers.

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Luce Scholar Program

Key into Service Scholarship

Key into Service Scholarship

The Scholarship is intended for young leaders to live in Asia for a year, who might not otherwise have an opportunity in the normal course of their careers to come to know Asia. 

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Princeton in Asia

Scoville Peace Fellowship

Rotary Global Scholarship

The fellowship aims to foster mutual appreciation and cultural understanding by connecting service-minded graduates and partner organizations in Asia.

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Rotary Global Scholarship

Scoville Peace Fellowship

Rotary Global Scholarship

A scholarship of $30,000 per year, with a maximum up to 4 years, for doing graduate level courses or research projects outside USA. 

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Scoville Peace Fellowship

Scoville Peace Fellowship

Scoville Peace Fellowship

The fellowship offers six to nine months in Washington, DC, to work full-time at a participating organization, focusing on international peace and security issues.

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Schwarzman Scholarship

Schwarzman Scholarship

Scoville Peace Fellowship

A one-year Master’s degree program in Public Policy, Economics and Business, or International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

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Soros Fellowship

Schwarzman Scholarship

Yenching Scholarship

The fellowship provides two $25,000 maintenance grants  and a tuition grant covering 50% of U.S. graduate program costs for immigrants and their children.

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Yenching Scholarship

Schwarzman Scholarship

Yenching Scholarship

 The fully-funded scholarship offers a master's degree in a diverse range of interdisciplinary courses at Peking University, one of China's top institutions, in Beijing.

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AAPI High School Internships

Adoptees For Justice

Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

Works to educate, empower, and organize transracial and transnational adoptee communities to achieve just and humane adoption, immigration, and restorative justice systems. 

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Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

Brings together people with an interest  the historical role of Chinese Americans in Southern California to preserve and communicate knowledge of this history, and to promote the heritage of the Chinese and Chinese American community.

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Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs

Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs

Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs

Prepares district youth to successfully transition from high school into post-secondary education, advanced training, unsubsidized employment, or a career in the military.

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National Korean American Service & Education Consortium

International Leadership Foundation Youth Leadership Academy

Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs

Works to expand Korean and Asian American grassroots and voting power, develop and support a new generation of youth and immigrant leaders, and solidify as a robust and sustainable movement organization.

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Hamkae Center

International Leadership Foundation Youth Leadership Academy

International Leadership Foundation Youth Leadership Academy

Develops holistic programs and campaigns guided by community members, while building Asian American community power to make long-term systemic changes that address the needs of AAPIs.

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International Leadership Foundation Youth Leadership Academy

International Leadership Foundation Youth Leadership Academy

International Leadership Foundation Youth Leadership Academy

Cultivates the next generation of young civic leaders through a series of lectures, seminars and hands-on projects on topics ranging from public policy, leadership and developing an entrepreneurial mindset.

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Experiential Leadership Opportunities

AAJC Youth Leadership Summit

APAICS Women's Collective Summit

APAICS Women's Collective Summit

A weeklong leadership development program for high-achieving undergraduate college students from a variety of disciplines who are dedicated to addressing issues impacting Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. 

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APAICS Women's Collective Summit

APAICS Women's Collective Summit

APAICS Women's Collective Summit

A three-day conference to created to bring powerful AA & NH/PI women together to share, to inspire, and to take bold action towards creating a more representative democracy. 

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APAICS Youth Leadership Academy

APAICS Women's Collective Summit

Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship

A week-long leadership development and enrichment program with the opportunity to learn more about government and public policy issues impacting the AA & NH/PI community.

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Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship

National Council for Community & Education Partners Summit

Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship

Works with future leaders to honestly and intelligently reflect on matters of national significance; debate issues, and ultimately arrive at a compromise and solve the problems that hinder America’s process of continual improvement for all Americans.

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Harvard Kennedy Public Policy Leadership Conference

National Council for Community & Education Partners Summit

National Council for Community & Education Partners Summit

A three-day conference to learn about what it means to study public policy in a graduate school environment and will have opportunities to connect with current HKS students, faculty, and staff as well as other high-achieving undergraduate students. 

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National Council for Community & Education Partners Summit

National Council for Community & Education Partners Summit

National Council for Community & Education Partners Summit

A three-day conference to build the capacity of communities to ensure that underserved students have the opportunity, skills, and knowledge to successfully pursue the education and training that will enable them to achieve their career and life goals. 

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Public Policy and International Affairs Program

Public Policy and International Affairs Program

Public Policy and International Affairs Program

A rigorous academic graduate level preparation program for undergraduate juniors committed to public service careers. The program was started to address the lack of diversity across the spectrum of professional public service, including government, nonprofits, public policy institutions, and international organizations. 

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PLEN Seminar Programs

Public Policy and International Affairs Program

Public Policy and International Affairs Program

PLEN seminars enhance class work and curriculum by giving students valuable access to public policy leaders in Washington, D.C. from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector.

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TORCH Leadership Academy

Public Policy and International Affairs Program

United States Senate Youth Program

A four-day leadership conference to develop and empower leaders through meaningful connections and transformative experiences.

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United States Senate Youth Program

Sikh Leadership Development Program

United States Senate Youth Program

An intensive week-long educational experience and scholarship sponsored by the United States Senate for outstanding high school students who are interested in pursuing careers in public service. 

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Sikh Leadership Development Program

Sikh Leadership Development Program

Sikh Leadership Development Program

A transformational virtual program that empowers Sikh American youth to become effective leaders committed to exploring and realizing both their personal potential and that of the Sikh American community.

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JACL/OCA Leadership Summit

Sikh Leadership Development Program

Sikh Leadership Development Program

A four-day annual leadership summit program introduces community leaders from across the nation to the national policy-making arena. 

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