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Purpose: SIPA enriches and empowers generations of Pilipino Americans and others by providing health and human services, community economic development, cultural enrichment, and a place where all people of all backgrounds can come together to strengthen community.

Core Values:  SIPA was co-founded by a coalition of progressive and passionate individuals within the Filipino, Asian American & Pacific Islander, and progressive communities in the late 1960’s. Founded in 1972.  SIPA’s core values, which define us as an organization, are based on the following Indigenous Filipino values:

Kawanggawa:  From "awa" (compassion) and "gawa" (action), refers to charity, "a kind act" or "deed of mercy".  Based on notion of pakikipagkapwa, or shared humanity.
Damayan: From "damay" (to involve, implicate, draw in), refers to the involvement/engagement aspect of service and community development.

Pagtutulongan: From "tulong" (help), refers to peer to peer assistance and in an egalitarian spirit of mutual self-help.
These Filipino values can also be identified through the concepts of :
1.  Cultural Identity,
2.  Community;
3.  Empowerment;
4.  Youth and Family &
5.  Service/Involvement

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