JACS Recipients, Trustees and Grant
Panelists (Photo: G. Muranaka/Rafu Shimpo)
The Japanese
American Community
Services of Southern California (JACS) provides financial support to
"emerging" groups and projects in the greater Los Angeles area, with a
focus on community service, health and human services, cultural arts
and leadership development. JACS traces its history back to the
Shonien, a Japanese children's orphanage founded in 1912. Stay
tuned for info about the JACS/Shonien's 100th anniversary.

Farewell dinner for JACS Board Member Noelle Ito, June 2009
Update:
January 2010
Applications
for the 2010 JACS General Fund and Cecilia Nakamura Arts Fund will be accepted from October 1, 2009
through
March 31, 2010. Awards will be announced in mid-June 2010. Funding criteria:
JACS
General Fund Guidelines
Cecilia Nakamura Arts Fund
Guidelines
Congratulations to the 2009 Grant Awardees:
JACS General Fund
CJACLC - Nikkei Community Internship
Japanese American Citizens League - Pacific Southwest District - Bridging Communities
The Tuesday Night Cafe Project/TNKAT
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
Friends of the Chinese American Musem - Hollywood Chinese
Cecilia Nakamura Arts Fund
Visual Communications - Eddie Oshiro Photo Restore Project
Progressive Taiko
"a century of
nurturing community"