Each year, SIPA honors the community leaders and organizations that have worked tirelessly in alignment with our mission of enriching and empowering lives of Filipino Americans in our community of Historic Filipinotown and beyond. We are reaching out in hopes that you will show your support by joining us this fall for the SIPA 51st Anniversary Gala and 2023 Barangay Awards, an in-person event to honor our community’s heroes who are navigating the uncertain tides of the current time.

The SIPA 2023 Barangay Awards is named for the Tagalog word barangay, representing the village, barrio, or one’s most intimate community. Balangay also was a precolonial boat that brought people from island to island, building relationships across communities. SIPA celebrates our barangay captains through these awards, celebrating leadership, courage and resilience within our community. SIPA is a 501c3 organization with a mission to enrich and empower generations of Pilipino Americans and others by providing health and human services, community economic development, cultural enrichment, and a place where people of all backgrounds can come together to strengthen community. For more on SIPA, you can visit www.sipacares.org.

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