The directors of the San Francisco Japantown Foundation yesterday elected Tomoe Horibuchi and Jerry Ono to the Foundation board.
Horibuchi is the manager of the Café at New People, the entertainment venue in Japantown showcasing films, art, fashion and a variety of specialty boutiques and ongoing monthly events. Horibuchi’s husband, Seiji, is chairman of VIZ Media, the [...]
The San Francisco Japantown Foundation today announced its selection of ten nonprofit projects and activities to participate in its 2010 matching grants program.
These projects will be awarded up to $4,000 through a matching grants program instituted by the Foundation. Selected projects will have until April 30, 2010, to fulfill their match by asking individuals to [...]
UPDATE JAN 25 — Seventeen individuals, most representing nonprofit organizations and groups, attended our community meeting today to learn about our matching grants program and to share their questions and feedback. The Q&A session proved to be very useful in identifying areas in our submission guidelines that need more clarification. Many of the questions asked [...]
At it’s monthly meeting, the San Francisco Japantown Foundation board of directors unanimously elected Diane Matsuda as a member, effective immediately. Diane is Executive Director of the John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco dedicated to improving the quality of life for California’s homeless children and developing policy solutions to [...]
The San Francisco Japantown Foundation today announced the recipients of its 2008
grants during a presentation event at the Asian Art Musuem.
The foundation’s 2008 competitive grants totaled $25,000 and were divided
among 12 organizations in varying amounts of $5,000 or less. The foundation
also approved $60,000 in special grants, made possible by an additional donation
from Jack Hirose, to [...]
