The CAUSE Summer Soirée is their annual celebration of leadership, community, and the future they are building together. For more than 30 years, CAUSE has worked to strengthen civic participation, develop leaders, and ensure Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities have a voice in shaping the future of Los Angeles and beyond.

This year, they gather around a simple belief: the future is not something they’ve wait for—it is something they shape together.

Our 2026 theme, Shaping Futures, reflects that journey.
We honor those who have shaped our communities.
We celebrate those shaping change today.
We invest in those who will shape tomorrow.

Throughout the evening, they will recognize leaders whose service has strengthened our communities, celebrate those advancing opportunity and innovation today, and reaffirm our shared commitment to developing the leaders who will shape tomorrow.