You Could Win $20,000 for Nikkei Place Foundation!
Donate online during the month of June
You Could Win $20,000 for Nikkei Place Foundation!
The Great Canadian Giving Challenge is back! From June 1 - 30, 2022, every $1 donated to Nikkei Place Foundation online through CanadaHelps gives us a chance to win $20,000!*
How it Works
Use the donation form below to make a donation to Nikkei Place Foundation online at anytime from June 1, 2022 at midnight NDT to June 30, 2022 at 11:59:59 pm PDT.
To be eligible donations must be made via CanadaHelps and a minimum $3 donation is required.
See full contest terms and conditions at the bottom of this page.
How Your Donation Makes a Difference
Your support can help build a strong and vibrant community at Nikkei Place!
Designate your gift to Nikkei Place Foundation to help ensure the future of Nikkei Place, and leave a lasting legacy for the next generation.
Designate your gift to Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society to help ensure independence, respect, dignity, privacy, and choice for seniors at Nikkei Place. Your support can provide funding from programs that help seniors remain socially, mentally, and physically engaged, and promote Kenko de nagaiki - a long and happy life!
Designate your gift to Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre to help preserve and promote Japanese Canadian history, arts, and culture. Your support can provide vital funding for vibrant programs, exhibits, and events that connect, educate and inspire all generations.
*Donations must be made via www.CanadaHelps.org. Minimum $3 donation required. Contest runs from June 1, 2022 at midnight Newfoundland Daylight Time (NDT) to June 30, 2022 at 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). See full rules at: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/givingchallenge-rules.
Starting the Year with Gratitude
We begin this year with gratitude to you, our supporters, for your overwhelming contributions and generosity to our Nikkei Place community during our 2021 Year-End Campaign.
We begin this year with gratitude to you, our supporters, for your overwhelming contributions and generosity to our Nikkei Place community during our 2021 Year-End Campaign. It was a great success, raising over $40,000 across our three charities at Nikkei Place! Thank you for giving to Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Nikkei Seniors Health Care & Housing Society, or Nikkei Place Foundation, and supporting our causes. Your support is making a difference for Japanese Canadian history, heritage, and culture, senior care, and the legacy of our community now and into the future.
Thank you to our Year-End Campaign donors!
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Dr. Robert & Molly Akune
Grace Asao
Donald Campbell
Eileen Carefoot
Catherine & Shawn Chapell
Adrienne Clark
Phil & Pauline Cooper
Dr. Millie Creighton
Laura Dempsey
Shigeyoshi Ebata
Lorraine M. Elliott
Kenneth Ezaki
David & Beverley Foy
Etsuyo Fujiwara
Bill & Noemi Gruenthal
Satoshi & June Hamada
Sachie Harpain
Rodney Yutaka Hatanaka
Shinobu Homma
Jim Hori
Masako Hori
Shirley Isojima
Hiroshi & Takako Iura
Yoshiko Iwamoto
Ed & Carole Iwanaka
Sandra James
John Jamieson
Patricia Jette
Ellen K. Kadonaga
Archie & Marjory Kamiya
Michiyo Katayama
Barry Kato
Tobo & Hiroko Kawamoto
Sharon Kawasaki-Chan
Yaeko Kikuchi
Yukimasa & Tamiko Kishimoto
Ken & Michiko Kochi
Kevin Kochi
Kevin & Karey Kondo
Bruce Kosugi
Joy Koyama
Tetsuo & Noriko Kumagai
Reiko Kurushima
Dan & Caprice Lau
Lola Lee
Ronald & Shirley Lee
Esther Matsubuchi
Ruth & Bruce Matsuda
Heather Matsune
Bill McNulty
Nancy Miki & Adam Smith
Eileen Miyanaga
Mr. & Mrs. Masao Mizumoto
Junji Mizutani
Melissa Mukai
Donald & Misaye Munro
Diane Murakami
Richard Murakami
Mary Murao
Reizo Nagai
Wendy S. Nagasaka
Daniel & Rury Nakagawa & Family
Edward & Jennifer Nakamoto
Kazuto & Mary Nakamoto
Luke & Miyoko Nakashima
Naomi Nakatsu
Joyce Nasu
Shirley Nasu
Terence & Susan Nishi
Shawn Nishimura
Sunni Nishimura
George & Linda Oike
Lisa Okada
Ronald Okada & Carol Nishi
Sachiko Jean Okamura
Kevin Okano
Dr. Douglas & Mrs. Marion Oldenburg
Steve Cain & July Ono
Tony Penikett
Toshiko & Ernest Quan
Aileen Randall
Karen Read
Gemma Shimizu
Pat M. Sakai
Margaret Sakon
Wayne Seller
Kazuhiro Shibata
Diane Shikaze & Michael Borowski
Howard & Sher Shikaze
Gentaro & Rose Shimizu
Hiroko Shimizu
Norman Shuto & Patricia Wallace
Hozumi Takahashi
Tsuneko & Stanley Takaki
Robert & Anna Takashiba
Susan Takashiba
Wayne & Rachel Tanaka
Mel & June Tanemura
Dan Tokawa
George & Hiroko Tsuchiya
Saeko Tsuda
Ronald Ui
Margie Uyeda
Mark & Paula Waslen
Keith Westover
Fred Wiley
Dr. Michael C. Wilson
Sheila Wong
Roy Yabuki
Rickey & Margaret Yada
Keiko Yakumo
Beverley T. Yamaura
Yuko Yasutake
Christine H. Yoshida
NNMCC ‘Resilience Fundraiser’ Campaign Concludes, Surpassing $250,000 Goal
The NNMCC is pleased to announce that the Resilience Fundraiser campaign raised over $306,000, surpassing their target by over $55,000!
NNMCC ‘Resilience Fundraiser’ Campaign Concludes, Surpassing $250,000 Goal
Community support has been overwhelmingly positive, and echoes the importance and desire for Nikkei Centre to serve as a place of community gathering, historic preservation, and cultural exchange.
In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic created great challenges for individuals, families, businesses and organizations. The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC) was no exception, and faced significant uncertainties and financial challenges. However, through resilience, resourcefulness and the generous support from all of our Resilience campaign donors, the Nikkei Centre persevered through the year, and found new ways to remain operational and serve the community.
The NNMCC launched the ‘Resilience Fundraiser’ campaign on April 1, 2020, and concluded in the new year on January 22, 2021, to raise essential operational funds. The support of community members was overwhelmingly positive, and echoes the importance and desire for Nikkei Centre to serve as a place of community gathering, historic preservation and cultural exchange.
The NNMCC is pleased to announce that the Resilience Fundraiser campaign raised over $306,000, surpassing their target by over $55,000! Thank you to all donors for supporting the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre!
““On behalf of the Board of Directors [of the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre], I would like to thank you – our Community – for your extraordinary support of our aptly-named Resilience Fundraiser. As a result of your incredible generosity, we are better positioned than many charitable organizations to meet the unprecedented operational challenges that we continue to face during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Board would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the very generous group of anonymous donors who graciously provided the matching donations.”
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Photo credit: Manto Artworks
The generosity of donors provided a lifeline for the NNMCC, and helped ensure they could continue to their charitable mission to honour, preserve and share Japanese culture and Japanese Canadian history and heritage for a better Canada. While many public facilities closed or became unavailable due to pandemic restrictions, the Nikkei Centre, with approved safety plans, was able to re-open and allow limited activities such as: martial arts, Japanese language school, small-scale outdoor markets, and visits to the Broken Promises exhibit, while many locals enjoyed the beauty and tranquility of Nikkei Garden. We expanded our online shop and online programs, presentations and workshops, and educational resources for distance-learning.
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As a gathering place, the Nikkei Centre was able to provide some semblance of normality to an abnormal year. All of these opportunities and achievements could not have been possible without the generous support from all of our Resilience campaign donors.
The NNMCC will continue to work hard to fulfill our mission and continue to meet the needs of our seniors, families, individuals and community.
To conclude the Resilience campaign, all gifts are acknowledged on the Resilience Fundraiser Donor Wall (also viewable in the February issue of The Bulletin and soon to be on display in the Nikkei Centre lobby).
ご支援いただき、誠に有難うございました。
2020 in Review: Highlights and Hopes for the coming year
We take this opportunity to share highlights from this year and hopes for the next.
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!
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.
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.
We're Ringing in the Season on Giving Tuesday — Dec 3
We all know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Giving Tuesday? At Nikkei Place, we’re starting the holiday giving season by giving thanks on Giving Tuesday — December 3rd!
We will be giving our supporters a call on December 3, to show our appreciation!
We're Ringing in the Season on Giving Tuesday — Dec 3rd
We all know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but what about Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. Many recognize Giving Tuesday as the start of the charitable giving season.
At Nikkei Place, we’re starting the holiday giving season by giving thanks!
At Nikkei Place, we will be ringing in the season, quite literally, on Giving Tuesday! We will be giving our supporters a call on December 3, to show our appreciation and gratitude for their generosity and commitment to our community.
Together we are changing lives and community for the better. Thank you!
Celebration of Life for Gordon Kadota at Nikkei Place
Join Nikkei Place, as we celebrate the life of Gordon Ryo Kadota on September 22, 2019.
Celebration of Life for Gordon Kadota at Nikkei Place
Join Nikkei Place, as we celebrate the life of Gordon Ryo Kadota. Speeches to begin at 3:15pm. Light refreshments will be provided. No RSVP required. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please no koden or flowers as per the family’s request.
When: Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 3:00pm
Where: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Special Event Hall (6688 Southoaks Cres., Burnaby, BC)
Gordon Ryo Kadota passed away on July 31, 2019 at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia at the age of 86. A private funeral was held on August 6 at Celebration Hall in Vancouver. Gordon is survived by his second wife, Kyoko; daughter Ayako (Steve); grandchildren Sydney, Andrew and Dana; step-sons Takashi (Reiko), Haruyuki (Kim); and step-grandchildren K and Emi. Uncle Gordon will also be mourned by many nieces, nephews and cousins in Canada, the United States, England and Japan.
Gordon was born on January 15, 1933 in New Westminster, B.C., the 8th child of Kantaro and Shigeno (nee Kunita) Kadota. At the age of 7 he was taken to Japan for a visit, but the outbreak of World War II prevented his return to Canada. He spent 12 years in Japan, graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University High School and later returned to Canada in 1952.
Following in his father’s footsteps, Gordon worked in forestry and in the 1960’s entered the travel industry, eventually specializing in tourism between Canada and Japan. This led to Canaway Consultants which provided translating and business consulting services. In the early 1970’s, he also co-founded OK Gift Shop with the Canadian stores opening in Vancouver, Banff, and Niagara Falls. He remained active in the company until recently.
Beginning in the mid-1950’s, he volunteered and became a leader in the Japanese Canadian community, serving both in organizations at the local and national levels. Over the years, Gordon received numerous awards for his work in the Japanese Canadian community, in business and tourism and the betterment of relations between Japan and Canada. In 2000, his dream of creating a gathering place for the Japanese-Canadian community was realized with the building of Nikkei Place in Burnaby, B.C.
In 2016, Gordon received Nikkei Place Foundation’s Thomas Shoyama Lifetime Achievement Award.
Gordon was a great story teller and often started by saying “It’s a long story”. He had a big heart, kind words and a sense of humour that made it possible for him to continue for so many years in public service. He enjoyed travel, sports particularly golf and hockey, and was always helping others in need. Those who wish to make a donation in Gordon’s memory might do so to Canuck Place Children’s Hospice, St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation or in keeping with Gordon’s philanthropic spirit, any charity of your choice.
Donor Spotlight: Frank H. Hori Charitable Foundation
Read about Frank Hori's life and the philanthropic endeavours of the Foundation he established.
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
Nikkei Place Charity Golf: The HUGE impact of sponsors and donors
Seniors in our community are facing the daily challenges of living with dementia, isolation, pain management, low mobility, and risk of injury. The generosity of sponsors and donors play a huge role in helping seniors #BeatTheOdds.
In 2018, 60% of Nikkei Seniors Society's fundraising goal for the year was met thanks to sponsors & donors at our golf tournament.
Seniors in our community are facing the daily challenges of living with dementia, isolation, pain management, low mobility, and risk of injury. The generosity of sponsors and donors play a huge role in helping seniors #BeatTheOdds.
Every gift raised for the Nikkei Place Charity Golf Tournament provides Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society with funding to raise awareness and education, develop programs, and run existing programs that help with the daily physical, mental and social challenges of aging.
