Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees

The Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees is a U.S.-based fiscal sponsorship organization founded in 2007. It describes itself as living for its sponsored projects, of which there have been more than thirty since its founding. The Association provides fiscal sponsorship — a legal and administrative umbrella that allows unincorporated projects to receive and manage charitable funds — to groups working on human rights, humanitarian aid, and international law, with a particular emphasis on causes that it says are targets of powerful nations and interests and are often reviled in corporate media. The Association's first project was the International Solidarity Movement of Northern California. Its best-known early project was the Free Gaza Movement, which it describes as having broken the siege of Gaza by sea in August 2008 and which later became independent from the Association. Other projects that have closed or become independent include 14 Friends of Palestine, No Tax Dollars to Israel, the Barbara J. Raskin Scholarship Fund, and the Global March to Jerusalem – North America. The Association continues to fiscally sponsor projects concerned with human rights, primarily in West Asia and Latin America, as well as projects without a specific geographic focus, such as the Serena Shim Award. It states that it is open to sponsorship without geographic limitations. The Association accepts projects that provide humanitarian aid and defend human rights and international law. It says it opposes violations of the national sovereignty of nations that pursue independent national and foreign policies, and that it particularly defends indigenous peoples and their rights to sovereignty, as well as repressed people and their rights to dignity and human rights. It also welcomes projects that expose deception, repression of information, and corruption of centers of power. The organization operates as a charitable entity, though the supplied evidence does not specify its exact legal form, headquarters location, or leadership.

The Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees was founded in 2007. According to its official website, it has sponsored more than thirty projects since its founding. Its first project was the International Solidarity Movement of Northern California. The Association's best-known early project was the Free Gaza Movement, which it describes as having broken the siege of Gaza by sea in August 2008 and which later became independent from the Association. Other projects that have closed or become independent include 14 Friends of Palestine, No Tax Dollars to Israel, the Barbara J. Raskin Scholarship Fund, and the Global March to Jerusalem – North America. The Association continues to fiscally sponsor projects concerned with human rights, primarily in West Asia and Latin America, as well as projects without a specific geographic focus, such as the Serena Shim Award. It states that it is open to sponsorship without geographic limitations. The Association accepts projects that provide humanitarian aid and defend human rights and international law, with particular emphasis on those that are targets of powerful nations and interests and are often reviled in corporate media. It opposes violations of the national sovereignty of nations that pursue independent national and foreign policies, and it particularly defends indigenous peoples and their rights to sovereignty, as well as repressed people and their rights to dignity and human rights. It also welcomes projects that expose deception, repression of information, and corruption of centers of power. The supplied evidence does not provide details on the Association's legal form, headquarters, leadership, or funding.

• 2008

  Free Gaza Movement, an early sponsored project, broke the siege of Gaza by sea in August.

• 2007

  Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees founded.

A fiscal sponsor for human-rights and humanitarian projects, with a focus on West Asia and Latin America and on causes it considers marginalized or vilified by powerful interests and corporate media.

• Fiscal sponsorship

  Legal and administrative umbrella for charitable projects.

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