Filipino American History Month: programming for ERGs services for ERGs.
FAHM is often overlooked within AAPI Month in May. October centers Filipino American contributions specifically — first US presence dates to 1587.
Gartner AAPI ERG Celebrates Filipino American History Month
More than a calendar moment.
Filipino American History Month was established in 1992 by the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) and federally recognized by Congress in 2009. The October date marks the first documented Filipino landing in what is now the United States — October 18, 1587 in Morro Bay, California — nearly 35 years before the Mayflower.
AAPI Heritage Month covers a wide range of communities; October is the month built specifically for Filipino American history and contributions — the colonial relationship with the United States (the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the Philippine-American War, the 1946 Treaty of Manila), the labor organizing of Larry Itliong and the Manong generation, and the 1965 Delano Grape Strike that Filipino farmworkers started before Cesar Chavez joined.
That labor history matters because it's the most consistently erased part of the US labor movement story. FANHS, the Welga Project at UC Davis, and the Pinoy Teach curriculum all publish materials designed for workplace use. Programming that includes the colonial story, the Manong generation, and contemporary Filipino American leaders — in tech, healthcare, arts, and policy — lands better than a lumpia-and-tinikling celebration alone.
The FAHM pitfalls.
What sinks FAHM programming isn't usually a missing speaker — it's a misread of the moment. The three misses worth naming out loud.
Folding into AAPI Month.
Filipino American history has its own month for a reason. Don't recycle May.
Skipping the colonial story.
The US-Philippines history is uncomfortable. It's also central. Don't sand it off.
Stereotyping food and dance only.
Lumpia and tinikling are great. So are organizers, scientists, novelists, and labor leaders.
Curated for Filipino American History Month.
Speakers, facilitators, and vendors filtered for FAHM programming. Pulled live from ERGs.io — every profile is one click away from a full bio, rate, and inquiry form inside the platform.
Real FAHM programming ideas from ERGs.io.
A few of the most-favorited Filipino American History Month ideas ERG leaders are running this year. Open ERGs.io to browse the full library — filtered, saveable, and bookable with vendors.
Other observances in the calendar.
Every observance gets its own planning page — speakers, vendors, programming ideas, and a timeline.
Stop scrambling. Start planning the month that lands.
ERGs.io pulls every speaker, vendor, and programming format into one workspace — so planning FAHM takes one afternoon, not one month of late nights. Free to start.