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Starr Foundation Provides Challenge Grant
In February 2000, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program received a $750,000 challenge grant from the Starr Foundation, a New York philanthropic organization.
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| Starr Foundation Founder Cornelius Vander Starr |
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Two years later, the challenge was met, and the Smithsonian APAP had raised over $1.5 million to establish an endowment to allow the Asian Pacific American Program to expand its work integrating Asian Pacific American history and culture into Smithsonian programs, collections and research.
APAP Director Franklin Odo said, "We are extremely grateful to the Starr Foundation. Its gift has established the foundation for an endowment fund that will support critical projects in perpetuity. All Asian Pacific American communities will be enriched as a result of this generous contribution."
The Starr Foundation was established in 1955 by Cornelius Vander Starr, an insurance entrepreneur who founded the American International family of insurance and financial services companies, now known as American International Group, Inc. Mr. Starr, a pioneer of globalization, set up his first insurance venture in Shanghai in 1919. He died in 1968 at the age of 76, leaving his estate to the Foundation.
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Our thanks to all of these corporate, foundation, organizational, museum, and individual sponsors, without whom we could not continue our educational efforts.
Foundations
- AT&T Foundation
- Bob Hong Foundation
- Citigroup Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Francis and Sarah Sogi Foundation
- G. Scott Hong Foundation
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Protect Kaho‘olawe Foundation
- Ringing Rocks Foundation
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Starr Foundation
- United States Japan Foundation
Corporations
- Anheuser Busch Companies
- Boeing Service Corp.
- Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank/Shiseido
- IXL
- Saturn Electronics & Engineering
- The Washington Post
Organizations
- Asian American Arts Alliance
- Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission
- National Japanese American Memorial Foundation
Museums
- National Museum of the American Indian
Individuals
Through My Father's Eyes Exhibition
- Mr. Anacleto Alcantra, Group Builders, Inc.
- David & Malou Babilonia-Wilner
- Bank of America
- Mr. Robert Berry, Bank of America
- Mr. Robin Campaniano
- Mr. Benjamin Cayetano
- Mr. Andrew Cherng, Panda Management
- FedEx
- Felipe & Providence Floresca, Common Sense Solutions
- Susan & Bert Kobayashi
- Jon & Elvie Melegrito
- Philippine Embassy
- David Pryor, FedEx Corporation
- San Miguel Corporation
- Mr. John Trafton, Global Village Imports, LLC.
- Olivia M. Tulao
- Jaime & Gloria Valerio
- Aurora & Buck Wong
- Nancy C. Wong
- Tim & Shari Wong, Arcata Associates
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Through My Father's Eyes:
The Filipino American Photographs of Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado |
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This stunning collection of rare post-World War II photographs capture the life of San Francisco's Filipino American community. See the exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History through March 31, 2003. |
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Our online exhibition provides an intimate view of some of these extraordinary photos.
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A More Perfect Union:
Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution |
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Examining events surrounding Japanese American internment during World War II, this exhibition explores the frailty of individual rights balanced with the need for national security. |
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The award-winning online exhibition complements and expands on the permanent exhibition, which is housed in The National Museum of American History. |
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