Spotlighting
A WELCOME
CHANGE OF PACE Neil Horikoshi BY LYDIA LUM
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Neil Horikoshi figured his stint as president and executive director of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) would last about two years. He would then move to an organization more likely to tap into his negotiation and managerial skills honed for 30 years as a lawyer and top executive at IBM.
Or so he thought.
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ive years later Horikoshi finds constant fulfillment in running the Washington, D.C. nonprofit. He also keeps discovering how his corpo- rate portfolio translates into managing day-to-day opera- tions at the APIASF as well as attracting new avenues of support for it. As the nation’s largest
organization devoted to providing college scholarships for Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders, the APIASF has distributed more than $60 million in aid since its 2003 inception. About 58 percent of recipients are first-generation college students, and nearly 60 percent of 2011-12 recipients came from families living at or below the poverty line. Currently, the organization manages a general scholarship, as well as the Gates Millennium Scholars/Asian Pacific Islander Americans that is funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Horikoshi calls his work “thrilling yet humbling.” At regional events honoring scholarship winners,
“We see the excitement in the eyes and body language of their parents and grandparents,” Horikoshi says. “Tey believe their children represent the next chance to
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