Trainings

NQAPIA (the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance) offers trainings that equip LGBTQ+ Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders with the tools to organize, lead, and build power and understanding in their communities.

From virtual workshops to in-person institutes, our trainings:

  • Build Personal and Professional Skills

  • Strengthen Organizing Practices

  • Raise Cultural Awareness

These sessions are designed to equip both new and seasoned organizers with practical tools to sustain their work.

Register for the FREE 2026 Trainings

We heard the feedback and in 2026, we are offering 10 free virtual workshops across topic areas that resonate most with local communities. These topics serve to either 1) Build Skills, 2) Strategically Organize, or 3) Raise Cultural Awareness.

Pick your own training adventure among the following training workshops:

HOW TO CONVENE YOUR PEOPLE

Trying to bring folks together to organize or build community — but struggling with turnout or recruitment? This 2-hour training is for you.

Learn from our best — NQAPIA’s Director of Advocacy & Organizing Reggie Gravely and Programs Manager Mai Li O’Keefe — as we share tools and practices for convening your community with intention and purpose.

This workshop will consist of 30 minutes for presentation and 90 minutes open strategy time. Bring your questions, issues, and suggestions. 

🔥 Free. National. Built for community members, organizers, and leaders at any stage of their development.

REGISTER BY Feb 25

DIGITAL SECURITY FOR ORGANIZERS

Join NQAPIA and 18 Million Rising for a one-hour training designed to equip organizers with the knowledge and tools needed to stay safer online.

This session will focus on practical strategies to help protect you and your grassroots organization from online attacks, surveillance, doxxing, and other digital threats. Participants will learn how to safeguard accounts, secure sensitive data and files, and strengthen privacy while organizing and advocating in digital spaces.

Organizers of all experience levels are welcome to attend.

REGISTER BY MARCH 25

In 2025, we piloted a 3-part training series dedicated to resource development. We held space for three phenomenal facilitators to discuss 1) Fundraising, 2) Grant-writing, and 3) Reporting and Evaluation.

We are offered free virtual workshops to build capacity for organizers, community leaders, and movement builders to identify existing and new resources, strategize on their specific lanes for resource development, and ideate about how they can tell the story of their work in culturally-significant ways.

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  • Reporting & Evaluation Training Workshop with Win Guan of Social Insights Research
    • 11/25/25

    Reporting & Evaluation Training Workshop with Win Guan of Social Insights Research

    This session, led by Win Guan (he/him) of Social Insights Research, covers the essentials of reporting and evaluation for grassroots organizations, community leaders, and movement builders. Learn how to: Collect and analyze data to show your impact, turn qualitative stories into measurable outcomes, report to funders with clarity and confidence. build internal systems that sustain your organization’s growth

  • Fundraising Training with Xin Xin from Abundance Rabbit Consulting
    • 11/6/25

    Fundraising Training with Xin Xin from Abundance Rabbit Consulting

    Xin (pronounced “shin”) is a seasoned fundraiser and resource mobilizer with over 15 years of experience in philanthropy and frontline fundraising. She has moved resources for movements advancing LGBTQ+ advocacy, immigrant justice, harm reduction, and workers’ rights. In this workshop, Xin shares practical insights on how fundraising is organizing—and how organizers can sustain their work through intentional community and holistic support.

  • Grant Writing Workshop with Sherrie Anne Hart
    • 10/14/25

    Grant Writing Workshop with Sherrie Anne Hart

    Presented by NQAPIA as part of our 2025 Organizer Training Series, this free virtual workshop explores the fundamentals of grant writing for community-based groups, organizers, and movement builders. In this session, Sherrie Hart (they/them/naya)—a queer, nonbinary Puerto Rican/Thai organizer, trainer, and Co-Director of Movement Building at Emergent Fund—shares practical strategies for writing compelling grant proposals rooted in justice, storytelling, and community power.