 | | Weekly Digest
December 12, 2023 |
| | This holiday season, words like purpose, community, and togetherness come to mind when we reflect upon JACL and the Pacific Citizen’s most transformative moments this year. Join our holiday campaign, "Celebrating Connections", and invest in our work that has touched countless connections with members, partner organizations, teachers, youth, veterans, and communities all over the nation. |
| | | Gift a JACL Membership with our Otoshidama Campaign! |
|  | Update: we are over halfway to our goal of 100 gifted members! We hope you help us reach our goal by gifting or renewing a membership for someone you cherish dearly. The last day to gift in time for 12/25 is this Thursday, 12/14, so we hope you gift today! |
| | | 2024 JACL National Scholarship Program Applications Available Now! |
|  | Scholarship Program guidelines, instructions, and applications have been posted on the JACL website, www.jacl.org, and can be accessed by clicking the “Youth” tab on the menu bar. You may also click the button below "To Learn More or Apply Click Here." Following previous years, the application forms for the scholarship program will be completely online. Freshman applications must be submitted directly by the applicant to National JACL through the online form no later than Friday, March 1, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Standard Time (HST). These freshman applications will then be disseminated to their respective chapters for review. Chapters will have one month to evaluate their applications and forward the names of the most outstanding applicants to National JACL. It is these applications that shall be forwarded to the National Freshman Scholarship Committee for final selection. Applications for the non-freshman scholarship categories (undergraduate, graduate, law, creative/performing arts, and financial aid) are also to be sent directly by the applicant to National JACL through the online form no later than Monday, April 1, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Standard Time (HST). All those applying to the National JACL Scholarship Program must be a youth/student or individual member of the JACL; a couple/family membership held by a parent does NOT meet this requirement. Applicants must be enrolled in school in Fall 2024 in order to be eligible for a scholarship. If a student has received two National scholarship awards previously, they are no longer eligible to apply as the limit is two national awards per person. For more information on the National JACL Scholarship Program, contact Scholarship Program Manager, Matthew Weisbly at scholarships@jacl.org |
| | | Call for Day Of Remembrance Events! |
|  | As we're coming up on Day of Remembrance, JACL is once again asking all of our chapters and supporters to send us information on any events that you know of so that we can share it with the wider membership and Japanese American community! Please send any information you have on your DOR events, including date(s), times, any website/social links, and images/flyers you might have! We'll continually update the listing so if you currently only have some information and are still waiting on more, send us what you have and we can update the event page. The event page and calendar will be made available later. Send any program information you have to Education Programs Manager, Matthew Weisbly at mweisbly@jacl.org |
| | 2024 JACL/OCA Leadership Summit Applications Available Now! |
|  | Applications are Due Wednesday, December 20th at 11:59pm HST! Saturday, March 9th through Tuesday, March 12th in Washington, D.C.! Established by JACL in 1984, the four-day annual leadership summit program introduces community leaders from across the nation to the national policy-making arena. Co-convened with OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates since 1994, the JACL/OCA Washington, D.C. Leadership Conference is structured to provide a broad overview of the decision-making process at the federal level, including meetings and briefings by public officials, key policymakers who serve in Congress, the White House, federal agencies, advocacy organizations, and the media. Participants also will be briefed on legislative issues affecting AAPI communities and will examine the role Asian Pacific American civil rights organizations, such as JACL and OCA, play in affecting public policy and pursuing civil rights legislation in the nation’s capital! The 2024 program will again take place in person in Washington, DC, with the application of programmatic and government COVID-19 guidelines to promote a safe event. We will require all participants who are able to be vaccinated. Both JACL and OCA will be closely monitoring the COVID-19 numbers in the coming weeks, and if necessary may alter the program including the possibility of shifting to a virtual event, postponement, or cancellation. | | |
| | | | 2024 JACL Chicago Chapter Scholarships Available Now! |
|  | | | |  | Communications Manager Under the general direction of the Executive Director, the Communications Manager
conveys the JACL’s values, mission, and goals regarding current issues through public
and social media. This role is instrumental to JACL’s mission as a civil rights
organization. - Salary Range: $45,000-$70,000
- Status: Regular Full-Time
- Preferred Location: Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA or Los Angeles, CA
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| | | | | Apply to be a White House Fellow! |
|  | The Class of 2024-2025 application is now open through 3:00 p.m. ET on Friday, January 5, 2024. Apply now. | Founded in 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson, the White House Fellows program is one of America’s most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional emerging leaders first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the Federal government. Selected individuals typically spend a year working as a full-time, paid Fellow to senior White House Staff, Cabinet Secretaries, and other top-ranking government officials. Fellows also participate in an education program consisting of roundtable discussions with leaders from the private and public sectors, and potential trips to study U.S. policy in action both domestically and internationally. Fellowships are awarded on a strictly non-partisan basis. | |
| | | Fundraiser to Build a Museum for Nisei Veterans in Bruyeres, France |
|  | From Heroes of the Vosges Museum, We are less than a year away from the eightieth anniversary (October 2024) of the liberation of the Vosges communities of Bruyères, Bellmont, Biffontaine and the near miraculous rescue of the Lost Texas Battalion. We are again reminded of the sacrifice made by the young Nisei men of the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team in October 1944. With each passing day, fewer of these heroic soldiers are left to tell their story and it is essential that we create a lasting exhibit that will carry their story to future generations. Where better to have such an exhibit than on the very ground made sacred by the Nisei sacrifice? With the agreement and support of the Mayor and City Council, the town of Bruyères is working to create a start-up museum to commemorate the Nisei and the members of the French Resistance who helped liberate these communities. To that end, we are seeking artifacts associated with the Nisei soldiers and donations to create a small museum that will preserve these artifacts and stories for future generations. We have created a website at vosgesheroes.org and have obtained non-profit (501 (c) (3) status (93-3459043) for the museum fund. The website also offers a children’s book called Marie of Bruyères that tells the story, in both English and French, of a little girl who meets one of the Nisei liberators. All donations and proceeds for the sale of the book are deposited in the Museum Fund. Please go to vosgesheroes.org and make a generous donation and buy the book. Please also see hill555.org that describes our earlier effort to create the Torch Monument dedicated in 2017. For additional information, please call Carl Williams, the U.S. Volunteer, at 916-233-8069 |
| | Looking for a Match for Kaiya! |
|  | | | Fundraising for WWII memorial stone at Miramar National Cemetery, San Diego |
|  | In honor of our Japanese American World War II Veterans who are buried in Miramar National Cemetery, the San Diego JACL is raising funds to donate a stone memorial currently being designed by award-winning architect Dennis Otsuji. If you are interested in making a donation, please visit our gofundme page (QR code and link in the attached flyer) or send a check to the SDJACL, 2317 Mica Rd, Carlsbad, CA 92009. Thank you in advance for your generosity! Fundraising will conclude December 31, 2023. |
| | | See Omoiyari a Song Film by Kishi Bashi! |
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