CJACLC - timeline

1998	Formation of the California Japanese American Community Leadership Council Brought together, for the first time, the leaders of the major Japanese American community groups from across the state.
1999	Creating a California Nikkei Leadership Agenda Symposium – San Jose (July 1999) Identified four key focus areas: Leadership Development Diversity and Inclusivity Preserving our Japantowns / Cultural Preservation Resource Development
2000	Nikkei 2000 Empowering Our Community for the 21st Century – San Francisco (April 2000) National conference addressing: Leadership Inclusive Nikkei Community Preserving and Creating Culture and Nikkei Values Japantown Preservation Political Involvement and Support Family plays a key role in our future Coalition Building and Global Networking Financial Resource Development
	Leadership Program to Japan (September 2000) Organized in partnership with the Japanese Foreign Ministry
2001	Senate Bill 307 – Preservation of California’s Historic Japantowns in San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles First piece of legislation in the nation to address the preservation of an ethnic community through a cultural preservation planning approach
	Spectrum: Broadening the Views of Young Nikkei– Los Angeles (April 2001) National Japanese American youth conference
	Youth and Young Adult Leadership Development Planning Project – Call to Action
	Preserving California’s Japantown Legacy California Civil Liberties Public Education Program grant to create historic markers
2002	Leadership Program to Japan (March 2002) Organized in partnership with the Japanese Foreign Ministry
	Hapa Issues Forum: Diversity and Inclusion Conference
	Proposition 40 and Senate Bill 307 Implementation of funding for historic and cultural preservation of Japantowns
	Nikkei Cultural Survival (Ties That Bind 2) – Los Angeles (April 2002) Identified several focus areas: Leadership Development Connect the Community, Inclusivity Cultural Preservation of Place Preserving Language and Cultural Practices Infrastructure Development
	Nikkei Community Internship Program (Summer 2002) 13 college students placed at 9 Japanese American community organizations in Northern and Southern California
	Why We Care: A New Generation Looks at U.S.-Japan Relations – Los Angeles (August 2002) A panel discussion with: The Honorable Taro Kono, Member of Parliament, Japan Dr. Mitchell Maki, Acting Dean, College of Health and Human Services, CSU Los Angles Toshiaki Miura, Washington Correspondent, American General Bureau, Asahi Shimbun Eric Akira Tate, Attorney, Morrison & Forrester LLP, President JCCCNC Teresa Watanabe, Journalist, Former Japan Correspondent, Los Angeles Times Irene Hirano, moderator, Executive Director, Japanese American National Museum
2003	Leadership Program to Japan (March 2003) Organized in partnership with the Japanese Foreign Ministry Expanded to areas outside of California
	Nikkei Community Internship Program (Summer 2003) 12 college students placed at 8 Japanese American community organizations in Northern and Southern California
	Three Japantowns Taiko Concert Series (Fall 2003) October 4th - San Jose October 11th - Los Angeles November 23rd - San Francisco
2004	Leadership Program to Japan (March-April 2004) Organized in partnership with the Japanese Foreign Ministry Delegates included Nikkei leaders from California, Hawaii, Houston, Portland, Seattle and Washington DC
	Nikkei Community Internship Program (Summer 2004) 13 college students placed at 11 Nikkei community organizations across California Past and current NCI interns presented and led discussions on the young Nikkei perspective of the community’s future at the California Japanese American Leadership Symposium
	California Japanese American Leadership Symposium – Little Tokyo (July 2004) Assessed the current state of the California Japanese American community Cultural and community preservation, youth participation, caring for our elders, and political leadership development were among the focus issues
	California Japantowns Cultural Preservation Planning Symposium (October 2004) Reported the findings and recommendations resulting from Senate Bill 307, with panelists: Gail Dubrow, Associate Professor in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington Donna Graves, Arts and Cultural Planner, former Executive Director of Power of Place, Los Angeles Diane Matsuda, Executive Officer of the California Cultural & Historical Endowment
2005	California Japantowns Cultural Preservation Planning Symposium (June 2005) California Civil Liberties Public Education Program – Notice to All Conference, with panelists: Joe Yasutake, Japanese American Museum of San Jose Gail Dubrow, Associate Professor in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington Donna Graves, Arts and Cultural Planner, former Executive Director of Power of Place, Los Angeles
	California Japantown Landmark (June 2005) Funded by California Civil Liberties Public Education Program in 2001 Unveiled in San Francisco Japantown at the CCLPEP conference Unveiled in front of Issei Memorial Hall, San Jose the fall of 2005 Unveiled at Union Center for the Arts, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles on August 16, 2006
	Nikkei Community Internship Program (Summer 2005) 12 college students placed at 11 Nikkei community organizations across California 50 alumni of NCI at the conclusion of the 2005 program formation of an NCI alumni group
2006	Preserving California's Japantowns California Civil Liberties Public Education Program grant statewide project to document historic resources 43 pre-World War II Japantowns principal researchers: Donna Graves (Arts and Cultural Planner) & Gail Dubrow (University of Minnesota) launched www.californiajapantowns.org website
	Nikkei Community Internship Program (Summer 2006) 14 college students placed at 11 Nikkei community organizations across California 5th Anniversary celebrated at a community luncheon at the JCCCNC on August 18th