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	Fiilipino Community Center, Inc.
		The Filipino Community Center, Inc. is a non-profit tax-exempt organization that was founded in 1989 by the concerned Filipinos of Charleston, SC under the leadership of Jimmy Gapusan.
		The Filipino Community Center is a social service agency dedicated to enriching the life of every Filipino and the Filipino-American community.
		The Filipino Community Center is progressively growing with the dedication, hard work, and the volunteer support of the Filipino community in the tri-county.
	www.filipinocommunitycenter.org (199 words)

	Wildflowers Institute - Filipino Community Portrait
		Filipinos, although long viewed as the most Westernized and Americanized among Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the country, are arguably the most mislabeled, misinterpreted, and culturally marginalized of API communities.
		Filipinos interpret their history from two perspectives: the pantayo, or insider, perspective, which covers those aspects of history and culture important to Filipinos themselves, and the pangkami perspective, which focuses on explaining their history to foreigners who may hold negative preconceptions.
		The plaza’s physical position as community center with imposing structures of the church, the friar’s convento, the municipal hall, and the bahay-bato (mansions) of the ruling elite expressed its role as the purveyor of colonial culture.
	www.wildflowers.org /community/Filipino/portrait.shtml (2368 words)

	Filipino American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Filipino is the official and national language of the Philippines and is heavily based on Tagalog but includes Ilokano, Visayan, Bikolano and other major languages of the Philippines and the world.
		This act encourages many Filipino Americans to invest in the Philippines, buy land (only Filipino citizens are allowed to purchase land in the Philippines), vote in Philippine elections, retire in the Philippines, and participate in representing the Philippine flag, especially in the field of sports.
		Filipinos also suffer one of the longest waiting periods among immigrant groups, considering that the Philippines is a former United States colony, an ally in instilling worldwide democracy and battling worldwide terrorism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Filipino_American (4344 words)

	California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the center and east of the state are the Sierra Nevada (meaning Snowy Range in Spanish), which include the highest peak in the contiguous 48 states, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4421 m).
		Filipinos are particularly numerous in San Mateo and Solano counties, and in communities such as Baldwin Park, Covina, West Covina, and the community of Eagle Rock in Los Angeles.
		The community of Artesia and nearby Cerritos, as well as Fremont in the Bay Area have a large Asian Indian/South Asian community.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California (7033 words)

	The Filipino Community
		Although the area is known as one of the oldest Filipino enclaves in the City of Los Angeles and is now referred to as "Historic Filipinotown," the predominant ethnic community in the area is still Latino.
		Many Filipino residents of West Long Beach simply had to relocate a few miles north to the City of Carson, in which a sizable and very active Filipino community resides in, to improve their situation.
		Though Filipinos naturally gravitated toward enclaves in the middle of the 1900s, several factors — economic, city development and education — led to the decline of the Filipino population within the same enclaves and diffusion to the surrounding areas and suburbs.
	www.lmu.edu /csla/community/students_projects/philipino (3782 words)

	UHM CENTER FOR PHILIPPINE STUDIES
		The Filipino community in Hawaii today traces its roots to 1906 when 15 sakadas (contract laborers) were recruited from the Philippines by the Hawaii Sugar Planters Association (HSPA) to work on the sugar plantations in the then U.S. Territory of Hawaii.
		Filipinos are the fastest growing ethnic minority in Hawaii, due to continuous immigration from the Philippines and high birth rates in the Filipino community in Hawaii.
		Majority of the Hawaii Filipino community, at least 85 percent, are Ilokanos coming from Northern Luzon, whose native language is Ilokano.
	www.hawaii.edu /cps/fil-community.html (825 words)

	Pioneering Filipino immigrants honored by descendants \| Santa Rosa Press Democrat // News for California's North Bay ...
		FILIPINOS consider themselves the quiet minority, but their story speaks volumes about immigrants and the agricultural economy of the early 20th century as well as, alas, the discrimination and prejudice that was (is?) part of our country's culture.
		Filipinos were accused of taking the jobs of white workers, and incidents at the labor camps in the west county were the start of many bitter memories.
		Cleto, as he was known to the white community, was known to Filipinos as "the doctor" because, in their words, "he looked after the chickens" and probably ran most of the cockfights in the county.
	www1.pressdemocrat.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061203/NEWS/612030325 (1524 words)

	AsianWeek: News: New Funds for New York API Nonprofits (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When she joined Filipino American Human Services Inc (FAHSI) three years ago, though, a lack of resources forced the local nonprofit to share offices with other organizations and hold activities in other community centers and churches.
		The new community center is just one of a dozen new programs that are being funded this year through the Asian American Federation of New York’s Asian American Community Fund.
		Other organizations awarded are: Japanese American Social Services Inc., Korean American Senior Citizens Counseling Center, New York Asian Women’s Center, refugee Women Council, South Asian Youth Action, the Chinatown branch of the YMCA of Greater New York and the Flushing branch of the YWCA of the City of New York.
	www.asianweek.com /2000_05_11/news_aafny.html (615 words)

	Ford Report
		Thus, the performing arts in Filipino American communities are a space where identity, education and stewardship are constantly formulated, shared, and preserved as well as deconstructed, revised and reborn.
		The cities were pre-selected based upon their Filipino American demographics, either evincing a majority with large established communities and cultural institutions in certain regions or sparse numbers yet entrenched cultural activities in others.
		Filipino Youth Center (PYC) in Seattle, WA was found by Fred and Dorothy Cordova in 1957, forming a cultural school that offered Filipino American history and Philippine folk dance.
	www.naffaa.org /2005naffaa/grantreport.htm (10196 words)

	filipino - Philippines Website Directory Search (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Filipino (formerly called Pilipino) is the national language and one of the...
		Filipino is a term that originally referred to the Spanish population who were born and settled in the Philippines.
		The Filipinos or the Filipino people are the native inhabitants and citizens of the Republic of the Philippines located in Southeast Asia.
	www.finder.ph /search/filipino (441 words)

	Filipino community center inspires pride at opening - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is fitting that Rizal, "a symbol of Filipino hopes and achievement," stands in front of the community center, said Philippine undersecretary of foreign affairs Merlin Magallona.
		Roland Casamina, president of the center's board of directors, said he always knew the center would be built in the scheduled 10 years.
		At the opening of the Filipino Community Center, children of the Filipiniana Dance Troupe perform a traditional welcoming dance with a local twist: Instead of a crown of flowers, they hold red-white-and-blue lei.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2002/Jun/12/ln/ln01a.html (638 words)

	Philippine Forum
		The Filipino Workers Center is an institution that aims to arouse, organize and mobilize Filipino workers to work for social and economic justice.
		The Center works to build a movement of Filipino workers aware of their rights and confident to lead actions to influence and change oppressive structures.
		The Filipino Workers Center is a project of the Philippine Forum, an education and advocacy organization in New York City.
	www.geocities.com /philippineforum/fwc.html (639 words)

	About Bayanihan Community Center
		The community center is 7,000 square feet on the ground floor and basement of the Bayanihan House located at the corner of 6th and Mission Streets in San Francisco's South of Market (SOMA).
		Third, TODCO would extend a 20-year lease to the Filipino American Development Foundation for $1/year for over 7,000 square feet of ground floor and basement space to house the Bayanihan Community Center.
		The Filipino community of immigrant families and seniors live in apartments in the alleys and in the residential hotels.
	www.bayanihancc.org /aboutbcc.html (494 words)

	Bayanihan Community Center
		We believe that the Filipino cultural value of bayanihan, which means mutual assistance and mutual caring, can be the catalyst for engaging the Filipino American community to self-development and broader participation.
		The Filipino community of immigrant families and seniors live in apartments in the alleys and in the residential hotels.
		The establishment of the Foundation was born out of a strong desire to coalesce the Filipino community in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
	www.thevolunteercenter2.net /org/9233097.html (643 words)

	Philippinenews.com
		Ben Menor, developer and executive director of the Northside Community Center in San Jose, was invited to be the facilitator for the event meant to be an exercise on good leadership skills for community leaders.
		The hope was for the community leaders from different organizations to buy into the vision of a community center and relate it to their members and to the community at large.
		Everyone agreed that the community center must be built and also agreed about the barriers that currently hinder the goal.
	www.philippinenews.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=ef2eefd66a62dccd53a2f448b2a6ed0a (590 words)

	Fil-Am vets lobby intensifies with arrests on the Hill by R Gerona-Adkins
		According to Jon Melegrito, public relations director for National Federation of Filipino American Associations (Naffaa), the original plan in communications with Ralston, was to have representatives of three organizations – Naffaa, ACFV and the National Network for Veterans Equity (NNVE) – in the meeting.
		She was referring to reactions from some in the audience at the gala dinner of Naffaa’s 6th convention held Sept. 10-12 in Chicago, to her impassioned speech challenging Republicans to urge party leaders in Congress to move the Filipino WWII Veterans Equity bill for a House committee hearing.
		The American Legion, the biggest veterans organization in the country, is expected to present a resolution urging action on pending veterans’ legislation at a joint congressional hearing scheduled September 21.
	www.imdiversity.com /Villages/Asian/politics_law/archives/pn_filamvets_arrests_0904.asp (1249 words)

	The Filcom Center
		The Filipino Community Center is the largest facility of its kind in the entire United States and outside of the Philippines.
		Opened on June 11, 2002, it is a long-awaited symbol of the Filipinos' presence and contributions to Hawaii.
		The FilCom Center is gathering place for promoting activities to share and perpetuate the Filipino heritage with those interested in the multi-cultural fabric of Hawaii.
	www.filcom.org (348 words)

	Mario Borja -- S.F. doctor, activist
		Mario A. Borja, a family doctor who laid the groundwork for the development of a Filipino community center in San Francisco, died Tuesday during heart surgery he underwent while on vacation in the Philippines.
		He also was a real estate investor who harbored hopes for many years of opening a Filipino American community center that could serve as a gathering place for the growing Filipino population in the Bay Area.
		The Bayanihan Community Center is set to open in spring 2005 in a South of Market building Dr. Borja formerly owned.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/18/BAG5U7NI7A1.DTL&type=printable (577 words)

	Board of Directors
		Her community involvement includes having served as Vice President, and later, Chairman, of the Los Angeles Science and Technology Advisory Council and of the Assumption Alumnae Association of Southern California.
		Cisa is also active in her faith community, as the Regional Moderator for the Pacific Southwest Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and Executive Board Member of the North American Pacific Asian Disciples.
		Dichoso's involvement with the community has earned him the distinction as one of the most prominent CPAs of Filipino-American descent that he was awarded the coveted "Twenty Most Outstanding Filipinos in the United States and Canada" by the prestigious Fil-Am Magazine in Washington, D.C. in 2001.
	www.filipinoamericanlibrary.org /board.html (786 words)

	Filipino American Service Group, Inc.
		The Filipino American World War II Veterans Campaign sparked a resurgence of grassroots activism that mobilizes the energy of the professional, veterans, and youth sectors.
		At the center of the campaign is the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill aimed at restoring the right of Filipino WWII veterans to receive service-connected benefits that were taken away by the Rescission Act of 1946.
		To increase the rate of voter participation of Filipino Americans through the use of educational forums, phone banking, establishment of a FILVOTE sponsored infoline (1-888-FILVOTE), assisting voters to the polls on election day, informing voters about the absentee voter ballots, providing voters with bilingual voter materials, and employing other means of encouraging voter participation.
	www.fasgi.org /filvote.htm (377 words)

	The Filipino Community Center (FilCom Center) - Honolulu Hawaii
		The FilCom Center was formally inaugurated in June, 2002, almost a century after the first 15 Filipino farmers sailed for Hawaii on board the SS Doric in 1906, which legitimized the Filipino migration to the western hemisphere.
		The Filipino Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii in1991 initiated the FilCom Center during the tenure of Lito Alcantra as president.
		In 1993, the Filipino Community Center, Inc. assumed a legal personality with the mission to develop, own and operate a community center that provides social, economic and education services and to promote and perpetuate Filipino culture and customs in the State of Hawai’i.
	www.filcom.org /history.shtml (860 words)

	FAN - The Filipino American Network (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Asian American Net mission is to serve all AA communities and to promote and strengthen cultural, educational, and commercial ties between Asia and North America.
		The Indo-American Center was established in 1990 in response to the wide spectrum of needs in the South Asian immigrant community, one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the Chicago area.
		The Korean American senior Center strives to be a leading force in supporting the elderly, with a primary focus on Korean Americans in metropolitan Chicago, by assisting them to obtain and sustain a sense of dignity and improved quality of life.
	www.fan-chicago.org /index.php?option=com_weblinks&Itemid=4&catid=2 (1056 words)

	Members
		Treanor’s involvement with the Filipino American Library began in the fall of 2000, when she was drawn by the inspiring and educational speaker series provided by the Library.
		A member of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), he is Co-Chairman of the 2002 National Conference to be held in Los Angeles.
		She is past Vice President of the Filipino American Historical Society and is a member of Assembly for Justice, an organization devoted to justice for Filipino veterans.
	www.filipinoamericanlibrary.org /board2.html (1575 words)

	Students and Community Projects
		Student and Community Projects serves as a liaison between the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities by enhancing academic study through fostering student empowerment and community activism.
		The Center’s long-time linkages with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are partly due to the leadership of community activists Meg Malpaya Thornton and Iosefa Aina, who coordinate the Student and Community Projects Unit.
		APALDP is a two-quarter course that focuses on leadership concepts and models; the politics of identity from individual to community empowerment; contemporary community issues; and critical approaches to campus and community building.
	www.aasc.ucla.edu /scp (636 words)

	Cancer - NBCCEDP - Cervical Cancer and Filipino American Women (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Interventions should be targeted specifically to Filipino women who are less acculturated, have recently arrived, and are under insured or uninsured.
		An evolving form of communication in the Filipino-American community is "Tag-Lish," a combination of Tagalog and English expressions skillfully blended in written or oral form.
		Demographic predictors of cancer screening among Filipino and Korean immigrants in the United States.
	www.cdc.gov /cancer/nbccedp/cc-strategies/filipino.htm (374 words)

	Asian, Pacific, & South Asian American Video: Media Resources Center UCB: Filipino Americans
		After the Manongs labored to build America, their San Francisco Manilatown community is wiped out by urban renewal, and 50 old-timers are forcibly evicted from the International Hotel by 300 cops in the dead of night.
		A Filipina American explores her body as a map of American racialization and a gendered Philippine colonial history.
		Frank discussions between teens, young adults and their parents reveal how issues of ethnic identity and opposing Filipino and American values contribute to youth's bouts with depression, parenting difficulties and intergenerational misunderstandings.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/filipinoamvid.html (1474 words)

	The Filipino Express Online
		The multi-media library and resource center will be named the Carlos Bulosan Heritage Center, in honor of the Filipino writer who wrote about the Filipino immigrant’s pre-war experience in the United States.
		In opening the Carlos Bulosan Heritage Center, the Philippine Forum aims to provide the Filipino American community with a library and resource center that will house materials— printed, audio, video— pertaining to and relevant to the Philippines and the Filipino immigrant community in the Northeastern tri-state area.
		NEW YORK --- The group of Filipino and Filipino-American communityleaders, calling itself “The Team” running for president and the 13 board of directors of the Philippine Independence Day Council, Inc. (PIDCI), claims it is the most qualified to run the annual celebration.
	www.filipinoexpress.com /18/42_expressweek.html (1233 words)

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