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Our Story

A platform by philanthropists for philanthropists

We are on a mission.  A mission to secure a sustainable future for Asia.  A future that is significantly at risk because of the multitude of complex and interconnected social challenges around us – challenges that governments struggle to contain, that private enterprises often choose to ignore and that civil society organisations are ill-equipped to tackle.

We need change agents to address these challenges vigorously.  We believe that philanthropists can be those change agents.  But they need to be better organised to be more effective.  And they need to join up efforts to be more impactful.

For this purpose, a few philanthropists established the Asia Philanthropy Circle (APC) in 2015.  APC is a membership platform for Asian philanthropists to jointly grow the impact of their philanthropy and to catalyse an Asian philanthropy.  APC is a registered charity headquartered in Singapore.

We saw that philanthropists needed a respected, forward-thinking and innovative central body to continuously identify, recruit and harness their collective intelligence and efforts for collaborative and catalytic action in Asia. APC is hence a membership platform for Asian philanthropists who want to build this community of progressive givers, who through exchange, coordination and collaboration, grow the impact of their philanthropy.

The APC is different from other intermediaries, as it is action-biased, and driven by experienced philanthropists themselves.  The founding board members are Singaporean philanthropists Stanley Tan and Laurence Lien, who is also our CEO, and Indonesian philanthropist Cherie Nursalim.

Asia Philanthropy Circle Ltd. (APC) is a company limited by guarantee.  The company was incorporated on 10 July 2015 and was registered in Singapore as a charity (UEN201528607M) on 29 September 2015.

APC Annual Reports

For our Annual Reports, please refer to our Resource Centre.

Our Vision & Mission

A platform for Philanthropists by Philanthropists.

Vision

A Better Asia through Philanthropy.

Better Asia: Inclusive, peaceful, prosperous and sustainable communities.

Philanthropy:  A value that promotes good stewardship of resources for the benefit of society.

Mission

To accelerate private action for the public good by addressing systemic challenges through collaborative philanthropy.

 

We believe that change agents are needed from all sectors of society to address Asia’s social challenges. We believe that strategic and engaged philanthropists can be those change agents.

For them to be those, philanthropists need more exchange, coordination and collaboration as social challenges become more complex. They need a respected, forward-thinking and innovative central body to continuously identify, recruit and harness their collective intelligence and efforts for collaborative and catalytic action in Asia.

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For more information on the Asia Philanthropy Circle’s members, services and projects, please write to [email protected].

Our office is located at:
Braddell House, #05-01
1 Lorong 2 Toa Payoh
Singapore 319637

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