Trainings

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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:

Soft Power: Bridging Art, Culture, and Lasting Social Change

Join NQAPIA as Executive Director Kat Evasco introduces LGBTQ+ and AANHPI artists and organizers to cultural strategy as a tool for building collective power.

This 90 minute training will introduce attendees to cultural strategy frameworks and explore the role of art, storytelling, and cultural organizing in movement building. Participants examine case studies from LGBTQ+ liberation and AANHPI justice movements and map their own superpowers as leaders working toward a world that is just, equitable, safe, and joyful.

All experience levels are welcome.

*Registration required to attend.

REGISTER BY May 26

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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  • Let's Get Together! How to Convene Your People Training Workshop w/Reggie Gravely & Mai Li O'Keefe
    • 3/4/26

    Let's Get Together! How to Convene Your People Training Workshop w/Reggie Gravely & Mai Li O'Keefe

    Trying to bring folks together to organize or build community — but struggling with turnout or recruitment? This recorded training is for you. This is the first recorded training of NQAPIA's 2026 National Training Series that will be a FREE 10-part virtual training series for LGBTQ+ AANHPI community members, organizers, and leaders across the country — and we’re kicking it off by going back to the basics: getting people in the room. 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 60 minutes for presentation. Bring your questions, issues, and suggestions. Built for community members, organizers, and leaders at any stage of their development.

  • 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.