Government Extends Deadline for 2024 Donation Tax Benefits

Important Announcement

We extend our heartfelt thanks to those who donated at the end of last year. If you were unable to mail your gift, there's still time to make a difference.

The federal government has announced an important update for charitable donations made in 2024. To support Canadian charities and ensure donors can receive tax benefits for their contributions, the deadline for eligible donations has been extended until February 28, 2025.

This extension comes in response to the recent Canada Post mail strike, which caused delays in the delivery of charitable donations. By extending the deadline, our donors now have more time to ensure their gifts are processed for 2024 tax claims. 

If you would like to make a donation to Nikkei Place and take advantage of this opportunity, there are 4 ways to do so:

1. Donate online to receive a tax receipt instantly: https://www.nikkeiplacefoundation.org/donate

2. Donate by mail and ensure it is postmarked on or before February 28, 2025

3. Drop off the donation to Nikkei Centre’s reception during regular business hours

4. Call 604.777.2122 to give over the phone during office hours

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org or 604.777.2122.

カナダ連邦政府発表　2024年度ご寄付の受付期限延長

年末にご寄付を通して日系プレースを支援してくださった皆様に心より感謝申し上げます。そして、郵送できなかったという方々に朗報です。カナダ連邦政府より2024年度の寄付の受付期限が2025年2月28日まで延長されることが発表されました。

この延長は郵便局のストライキにより寄付の配達に遅れが生じたためで、これにより2025年2月末までにしていただいたご寄付は、寄付者様の2024年度の確定申告に加えることが可能となりました。

日系プレース基金では以下の方法でのご寄付を推奨しております。

1. オンライン　その場で領収書が発行されますhttps://www.nikkeiplacefoundation.org/donate

2. 郵送　2025年2月28日までの消印が有効となります

3. 日系センター受付での直接受け渡し

4. お電話｜ 日系プレース基金 604.777.2122

お問合せは gifts@nikkeiplacefoundation.org または 604.777.2122までお願いいたします。

Canada Post Strike (Japanese)

日系プレース寄付者の皆様

現在進行中のカナダポスト労働組合ストライキの影響で、郵便での寄付は小切手を含め、到着が遅れる恐れがございます。そのため、日系プレース基金ではオンラインまたはクレジットカードでのご寄付を推奨しております。オンラインでのご寄付はこちら、クレジットカードでのご寄付をご希望の方は604-777-2122までお電話ください。

その他、日系センターの受付では直接のご寄付も受け付けております。速やかなタックスレシートのお受け取りを希望される際は、必ずメールアドレスをご提示ください。またご希望の方は、民間運送業者サービス(FedEx/UPS/Purolator等)で小切手を送っていただくことも可能です。

尚、12月31日までに頂いたご寄付に関しましては、当年度のタックスレシートを発行いたします。小切手でのご寄付の場合は、12月31日までに事務局に届いたものが当年度タックスレシートの対象となります。以降は次年度のお取り扱いとなりますのでご了承ください。

引き続き日系プレースへのご支援を賜りますようお願い申し上げます。

Canada Post Strike

Dear Nikkei Place Donors,

Due to the ongoing Canada Post Strike, all mail-based donations including cheques may not arrive on time and receiving charitable tax receipts by snail mail may delay. Please consider making a donation through online at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/16786 or call us at 604-777-2122 to make a donation by credit card. In-person donations are also accepted at the Nikkei Centre reception. Please make sure to provide your email address to receive a timely charitable tax receipt. Private carrier service can be an alternative in mailing cheques or correspondence.

NOTE: Donations received before December 31 will be issued a charitable tax receipt for 2024. Online donation is the best option to receive a tax receipt on time.

This postal disruption can put us at risk of facing delays and reducing overall contributions. We thank you for your continued support in helping us sustain and keep the Nikkei Place mission moving forward.

#Giving Tuesday is on November 30: A Day Dedicated to Giving

Help spread generosity and good will this season with a gift to our Nikkei Place community on Giving Tuesday!

Giving Tuesday is on November 30

Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. What better way to start off your holiday season than to give back?

Here’s how your support can make a difference:

• Give to Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre in support of their Inspiration Fundraiser, on now until February 2022. Nikkei Centre is a home for Japanese Canadian history, heritage and culture. When you give to Nikkei Centre, you support a place where diverse audiences come together to connect, learn and inspire! All proceeds support the Friends of Nikkei Centre Maintenance Fund.
  
  

• Give to Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society to help ensure independence, respect, dignity, privacy, and choice for seniors at Nikkei Place. Your support can provide funding for programs that help seniors remain socially, mentally, and physically engaged, and promote Kenko de nagaiki — a long and happy life!
  
  

• Give to Nikkei Place Foundation to help ensure the future of Nikkei Place for the next generation. Be part of our lasting legacy.

Please consider making a gift to Nikkei Place on November 30, 2021, in support of our vital missions and our enduring community legacy. If you have already made a gift, we thank you for your generosity! If you are not able to donate, please help us spread the word to your friends and family.

2020 in Review: Highlights and Hopes for the coming year

Highlights and Hopes

This year has been unlike any other — the challenges brought on by the pandemic has tested all of us in many ways, but together, we continue to be resilient. We extend our deepest appreciation to our supporters. Nikkei Place would not be here to serve the community without your help and generosity. We share with you highlights from the year from each Nikkei Place charity, and our hopes for the coming year ahead.

Our organizations have been proactively responding to COVID-19 by adapting our operations so that we can continue to serve our community while keeping staff, volunteers, residents, seniors, and visitors safe.

NIKKEI NATIONAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTRE

Since gradually reopening the Centre under new health and safety regulations in early June, the NNMCC faces new operational challenges, as our regular lifelines of revenue from venue rentals, fundraising events, and public, school and recreational programs are significantly affected. We have worked diligently to reduce expenses and optimize government and foundation grants. In anticipation of further risk of closure throughout the winter, we launched our Resilience Fundraiser to help raise essential operational funds for this year.

Amid these challenges, we have been able to offer limited but continued in-person programming, and more virtual events and resources than ever before. In the summer, we reimagined our annual Nikkei Matsuri festival into a multi-week small Japanese cultural marketplace. In September, the museum team livestreamed the opening of the BROKEN PROMISES exhibit, which explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. This year we also marked the 20th anniversary of the NNMCC which we commemorated through a ceremonial tree planting with the Vancouver Japanese Gardeners’ Association.

NIKKEI SENIORS HEALTH CARE & HOUSING SOCIETY

The NSHCHS responded quickly to COVID-19 by implementing an Infection Prevention Plan, closing to the public, and increasing PPE usage and sanitization across Nimi Nikkei Home and New Sakura-so. The pandemic changed the ways we facilitate everything from meals to activities and programs, and the daily life of our residents. We have been incredibly effective in keeping our seniors and staff safe, with no outbreaks to date.

To combat isolation, we started a ‘Send Letters to Seniors’ initiative, and have received many heartwarming letters and drawings from kids in the community. We also launched new activities including social visits via Zoom and small group crafts like knitting. As we continue to face many challenges, we have been able to persevere thanks to the generosity, support and kindness of our community. Our residents and staff have been on the receiving end of many gifts like masks, hand sanitizers, flowers, and meals for staff that have lifted their spirits. We look ahead now with new leadership from Jay Haraga, as Cathy Makihara retires as Executive Director after 25 years of dedicated service. We feel hopeful for better times ahead, as we continue to navigate these uncertain times.

NIKKEI PLACE FOUNDATION

The NPF remains operational, with staff now working remotely. We thank everyone for their patience as we adjust to new operational processes. In June, the Foundation was deeply impacted by the sudden passing of our founding Board President Robert Banno. We honour his decades of support, leadership, and philanthropy to Nikkei Place with a donor tile on our Legacy Giving Wall. This will be on display at Nikkei Centre in 2021. In September, the Foundation made its annual disbursements to both the NNMCC and NSHCHS, with hopes that our annual giving will increase in the upcoming year. Highlights from the 2019 fiscal year have been published in our annual report, now available here. As we pivot online now more than ever, we have expanded the availability of resources on our website which includes new Tribute Pages that allow you to dedicate a gift to Nikkei Place in honour or in memory of a loved one.

We recognize that this has been a difficult and challenging year and we continue to work towards serving you and the community as best we can. We would like to learn more about our supporters and your thoughts about the future. Please consider answering our short online survey at your convenience here. You can also request a hardcopy by contacting us.

As the year comes to a close, please consider making a year-end gift to Nikkei Place, to help us persevere through COVID-19. Donate online or find out how to make an offline donation here.

If you have already made your year-end gift, we thank you. We also appreciate all of you for your kind words, cooperation and commitment to stay healthy.

Sincerely,

Nikkei Place Executive Directors

Naomi Kawamura
Nikkei Place Foundation

Karah Goshinmon-Foster
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre

Cathy Makihara and Jay Haraga
Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society

Happy National Philanthropy Day!

Happy National Philanthropy Day

November 15 is National Philanthropy Day — the day we celebrate the extraordinary change that fundraising and philanthropy have helped to create in the world.

This year has been a difficult one for all of us. We take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to all our Nikkei Place supporters - your efforts help us continue to persevere through the challenges of COVID-19, so that our charities can continue to operate and serve the community.

• Learn how Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society are keeping seniors healthy and safe during lockdown.

• Learn how Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre is navigating the pandemic, bringing the community limited but continued in-person cultural programming, and more virtual events and resources than ever before.

• Download the Nikkei Place Foundation’s Annual Report to see how donor dollars are building a strong financial future for our community at Nikkei Place.

Here are they ways you can support Nikkei Place: 

• MAKE A SINGLE OR MONTHLY DONATION
  Support our community with a one-time or monthly donation to any Nikkei Place charity.

• CELEBRATIONS AND TRIBUTES
  Make a donation dedicated in celebration, in honour, or in memory of someone or something remarkable. You can also create a customized Tribute Page to collect donations for Nikkei Place in their honour.

• GIFT OF SECURITIES
  A gift of securities to Nikkei Place Foundation can have an immediate impact, as well as let you take advantage of the tax benefits that come with donating  publicly traded securities.

• CONTRIBUTE TO THE ENDOWMENT
  Inspire the potential of future generations with a gift to the Nikkei Place Endowment Fund. Contributions made to this specific fund help create a permanent source of income for Nikkei Place to ensure our good  work in the community continues in perpetuity. 

• PLANNED GIVING
  Leave a gift by will or bequest to Nikkei Place. If you choose to remember Nikkei Place Foundation in your will, you will be leaving a personal and lasting legacy that honours your heritage and your values and lays the foundation for a better future for those to come. 

Donor Spotlight: Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation

Thank you to the Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation

Nikkei Place Foundation graciously thanks the Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation for their generous donation to our community this year! We are happy to share with you a letter from the Trustees of the Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation, and the biography of Frank Hori. Learn about their philanthropic endeavours, and about the person who started it all.

Frank Hiroshi Hori

(February 2, 1927 – April 15, 2011)

Frank was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Haruye and Zenya Hori, originally from Shiga-ken, Japan. They were merchants of Japanese goods on Powell Street, at the centre of the city’s Nikkei (Japanese) community. Frank and his seven siblings grew up in a home filled with love, warmth, and the camaraderie of family and many Japanese friends.

During the war, the Hori family was sent to the Slocan Internment Camp (Bay Farm) for
a two-year period, where Frank attended a makeshift school. Eventually the family relocated to Regina, where he attended Regina College before moving to Montreal. He attended McGill University from 1951 to 1954, studying business and accounting.

Frank always remembered the funding support provided by his siblings towards his post-secondary studies.

Frank launched his 30-year career with Premium Forest Products, a Toronto-based door manufacturer, which was renamed Premdor Inc. when Frank and partners purchased the company. In 1986, Frank was instrumental in leading the company to public ownership with eventual international opportunities. He retired as Executive Vice-President and CFO of Premdor Inc. and as Vice-Chairman and Director of its subsidiary, Masonite International.

Frank was a highly proficient individual with a stellar acumen for business.

During his retirement, Frank acquired various real estate properties and became
a world traveller and a philanthropist with a deep passion for his cultural roots and heritage.

In 1999, Frank established The Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation to promote charitable endeavours in general but mainly those aligned with his philanthropic ideals for Japanese culture: a caring society; post-secondary learning; and the honouring of meritorious Canadians of Japanese ancestry for their contributions to Canada.

The Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation: Letter from the Trustees

In 1999, The Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation was established to promote charitable endeavours in general but mainly those aligned with his philanthropic ideals for Japanese culture: a caring society; post-secondary learning; and the honouring of meritorious Canadians of Japanese ancestry for their contributions to Canada.

We the trustees of The Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation are honoured to have been chosen by Mr. Hori for our various skills, acumen and personal philosophies towards his many passions and interests.

Our commitment and assurances to Frank that his philanthropic endeavours will continue to be supported along with the development of new programs are paramount.

The efforts to abide by our foundation charter and the diligence in preforming our research into all venues before we commit and support all programs are essential to ensure suitable sponsorship and funding can occur.

The responsibility of trustee to The Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation is not only an honour but a serious position which we value and protect, and look forward to serving this foundation for many years.

Paul Uchikata                         Donna J. Hori              Stella Chomiak 
Trustees of The Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation