This is a group of Filipinos and their friends in America and all over the world, many of them are based in Northern California who meet periodically to discuss urgent and vital issues concerning the Philippines, including issues affecting the Filipinos in America. This periodic forums are held all over the San Francisco Bay Area. The resource persons come from all over the world.

This group hopes to influence the formulation of public policy and its implementation in the Philippines through thorough studies and evaluation and by virtue of the expertise that many of its members possess. The group is also aware that it is not only in the Philippines where challenges to the Filipinos abound. They are also faced with challenges in America and other parts of the world especially in places where some of the 8 million Overseas Filipino Workers are trying to earn a living to support themselves and their families in the homeland.