Four San Francisco Japantown establishments — Kinmon Gakuen, Nichi Bei Foundation, National Japanese American Historical Society and Yasukochi’s Sweet Stop — were among eight businesses and nonprofit organizations unanimously approved by the San Francisco Small Business Commission for the city’s Legacy Business Registry at the Commission’s meeting Aug. 12. The Registry recognizes longstanding, community-serving businesses […]
Four S.F. J-Town establishments approved for Legacy Business Registry
Calif. Civil Liberties projects announced
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program announced in a statement May 2 that 29 California groups will receive funding for projects to remember the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, as well as “present-day civil liberty issues.†The State Library has awarded more than $922,000 has been awarded by the State Library […]
Nichi Bei celebrates five-year milestone
The Nichi Bei Foundation, publisher of the nonprofit community newspaper Nichi Bei Weekly and presenter of the Northern California Soy and Tofu Festival, held its Fifth Anniversary Celebration Oct. 12 at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California in San Francisco’s Japantown. There were presentations on the Nichi Bei Foundation’s programs, including […]
Special Announcement: Nichi Bei Foundation receives its own 501(c)(3) status
On behalf of the board and staff of the Nichi Bei Foundation, we are pleased to announce that we have finally received our own 501(c)(3) tax exempt status from the IRS. This means that we can now receive contribution checks made out to the “Nichi Bei Foundation,†and not to a fiscal sponsor, which typically […]
Nichi Bei Foundation receives large grant from The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation
The Nichi Bei Foundation — an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping the Japanese American community connected, informed and empowered — recently received the largest grant in the three-and-a-half-year-old organization’s history. The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation has generously contributed $98,000 to the Nichi Bei Foundation to help continue its publication of the Nichi […]
2010 Nichi Bei Foundation Day with the Oakland A’s
Nichi Bei Foundation Day was held on Sept. 6, Labor Day, at the Oakland Coliseum. The game featured the Oakland A’s facing down the Seattle Mariners. Pre-game festivities included grilled hot dogs, soda, Sapporo beer and a raffle of autographed Kurt Suzuki memorabilia, incuding autographed baseballs, and one of his game-used bats.  Masanori Murakami autographed bobblehead […]
RJC Awards Grants to Three Bay Area News & Technology Experiments
Post by Whitney Wilcox on February 10th at 12:58pm on rjcmedia.org, the Web site of the Renaissance Journalism Center “The Renaissance Journalism Center has awarded $20,000 grants to three Bay Area projects to test innovative models for gathering and distributing community news. The grants represent the first awards under the Center’s Media Greenhouse, which are […]
Renaissance Journalism Center Awards $20K to Nichi Bei Foundation
The Renaissance Journalism Center (rjcmedia.org) today announced that it awarded a $20,000 grant to the Nichi Bei Foundation, nonprofit publishers of the Nichi Bei Weekly. The grant, one of three, represents the first awards under the Center’s Media Greenhouse, which supports ethnic media, community media, and nonprofit groups in an effort to incubate and test […]
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News of the Nichi Bei Times closure on ABC 7 KGO-TV
Reporting of the Nichi Bei Times closing on the local news.
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