Asian Community Fund Gala

The Asian Community Fund's 2026 Rising Together Gala runs Friday, October 2, 2026 from 5:30 to 9:00 PM at The Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue in Back Bay. Host copy frames it as the largest annual gathering of AAPI leaders, partners, and supporters in Massachusetts, with cultural performances, leadership awards, dinner, and networking for a room near 700. Recommended dress is festive wear or business formal, with traditional cultural attire welcome. Individual tickets have listed around $500 on the Boston Foundation event portal; as of the live TBF page the evening is sold out, so treat asiancommunityfund@tbf.org waitlist questions as the current path rather than assuming a walk-up seat.

The Asian Community Fund at the Boston Foundation is the first and only Massachusetts philanthropic fund dedicated exclusively to AAPI communities, and this gala is its signature visibility and fundraising night. Sponsorship tiers on the TBF page run from Community Champion through Platinum, and the 2025 edition raised more than $880,000 according to host recap copy. Honorary co-chairs on the 2026 page include leaders from Boston Common Asset Management, Flagship Pioneering, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and Eastern Bank. That named philanthropic franchise is why the night clears Circuit: clear host, clear corridor stake, and a room that compounds year to year for civic and business allies.

This is right for AAPI business owners, corporate partners, foundation staff, and civic allies who already work Massachusetts diaspora institutions and can clear a gala price point. Skip it if you need a daytime founder pitch conference or a free young-professionals mixer. Bring one concrete partnership or gift ask, and plan Huntington Avenue evening traffic and hotel garage or valet before 5:30 PM. If you are still chasing individual inventory, email the fund rather than refreshing a sold-out cart all week.

If you are choosing between this Back Bay gala and Ascend New England's IAG later in October, stay here for statewide AAPI philanthropy density and use Ascend for full-day corporate leadership programming. Start on the live TBF Asian Community Fund Gala page, confirm waitlist or sponsorship status before you block the evening, and re-check dress and timing closer to October 2 if the fund posts a program update.