Profile: Cherry Blossom Festival
A KTSF video showing highlights of the 2009 Cherry Blossom Festival. one of the recepients of our 2008 grants.
Profile: Children’s Day Festival
The Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC) presents Kristi Yamaguchi’s Children’s Day Festival in Japantown to be held on Saturday, May 2nd , at San Francisco’s Japan Center Peace Plaza (Post and Buchanan Street) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
An Olympic figure skating [...]
Diane Matsuda Foundation Board
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 [...]
Day of Remembrance 2009
The 2009 “Bay Area Day of Remembrance” takes place in San Francisco on Sunday, February 22, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Theater, 1881 Post St. (between Fillmore and Webster), with a reception at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, 1840 Sutter St. The program will include [...]
Grants Awarded to 15 Organizations
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 [...]
