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Filipino Americans are the second largest Asian American ethnic group in the U.S. and the first documented Asian people to arrive in the country. In October, we celebrate the rich cultural legacy of Filipino Americans during Filipino American History Month.<\/p>\n
The Filipino American National Historical Society<\/a> ((FANHS, a Seattle based organization) established Filipino American History Month in 1992, but it was not until 2009 that the U.S. Congress recognized October as Filipino American History Month<\/a> in the U.S. Formal recognition followed years of campaigning and advocacy by numerous individuals and organizations.<\/p>\n Various states, counties and cities across the U.S. have established proclamations and resolutions declaring observance of Filipino American History Month.<\/p>\n October 18, 1587 marks the first recorded arrival of Filipinos in the continental U.S., in Morro Bay, California, a state that continues to be home to a large subpopulation of Filipino Americans. In fact, Southern California has historically had the largest concentration of Filipinos and Filipino Americans in the U.S., with a storied and complicated history of marginalization<\/a> in the state’s economic, political and cultural realms.<\/p>\n For the 2026 theme, the FANHS<\/a> has chosen Beyond the Margins: Centering Intersectional Filipino American Histories, moving toward a fuller, more nuanced and inclusive understanding of the Filipino American experience.<\/p>\n FANHS founders Fred and Dorothy Cordova are profiled in the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project<\/a>, a UW consortium of community groups, UW faculty and undergraduate and graduate students.<\/p>\n Historically, caregiving and nursing have been an accessible point of entry into the U.S. workforce for Filipino immigrants. The history of Filipino nurses in the U.S.<\/a> dates to the establishment of American style nursing schools in the Philippines during U.S. occupation in the early 1900s. After WWII and again in the 1960s there was an influx of foreign born nurses, including many Filipinos, to fill nursing shortages across the country.<\/p>\n Seattle and the greater Puget Sound area have a deep and active Filipino American community, and there are several ways to celebrate close to home this October.<\/p>\n Please consider\u00a0making a one-time gift<\/a>\u00a0or setting up a\u00a0monthly payroll deduction<\/a>\u00a0through the UWCFD to support one of our member organizations working with and for the Filipino American community.<\/p>\n Your Gift Makes a Difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Filipino Americans are the second largest Asian American ethnic group in the U.S. and the first documented Asian people to arrive in the country. In October, we celebrate the rich cultural legacy of Filipino Americans during Filipino American History Month. The Filipino American National Historical Society ((FANHS, a Seattle based organization) established Filipino American History Month in 1992, but it was not until 2009 that the U.S. Congress recognized October as Filipino American History Month in the U.S. Formal recognition…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","slim_seo":{"title":"Filipino American History Month 2026: Beyond the Margins, Closer to Home - UW Combined Fund Drive","description":"Filipino Americans are the second largest Asian American ethnic group in the U.S. and the first documented Asian people to arrive in the country. In October, we"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":1,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"jolynm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/cfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Filipino legacies<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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