FAACNJ was formed by friends, families, and co-workers in Ewing, Hamilton, West Windsor, Princeton, Pennington and Hopewell. Living in a foreign country with a different culture, they chose to support one another by maintaining their Filipino traditions and using their talents, time, and treasure to improve their community and country in which they lived so that they could say at the same time, “Tunay na Pilipino kami” (We are truly Filipino) and “We are patriotic Americans”.