Grassroots Exchange and Education 2016
East
West Center Honolulu, HI
US-Japan Grassroots Exchange: Citizen Participation in Community Building
Post-Disaster (Year 3)
Project Director: Meril Fujiki
$90,000
Participants from the cities of Kobe and Miyako in Japan, and New Orleans and
Galveston in the United States, will share experiences, perspectives, and best
practices for increasing citizen input on post-disaster policy and
decision-making in this project. The project will also examine community
grassroots and local non-profit organization efforts to more effectively engage
citizens in participatory planning and community building activities that
address the long-term recovery and rebuilding of their communities
post-disaster. For the final year of the project, the participants will
share their experiences and stories with local grassroots groups at a public
forum.
National Performance Network New Orleans, LA
US/Japan Connections – Building a Community (Year 3)
Project Director: Kyoko Yoshida
$45,564
This project strives to expand the organization’s partnership with the Japan
Contemporary Dance Network (JCDN) and to strengthen its network relations
by including a younger segment of cultural practitioners from
organizations such as Arts NPO Link and Opener Network of Performing Arts
(ON-PAM). By doing so, National Performance Network, aims to develop the
capacity of a younger generation interested in engaging with their communities
and reflecting the role of the arts in today’s society and ways of addressing
the profound effects caused by natural disasters.
Volunteers in Asia Stanford, CA
Strengthening Japan/US Networks to Equip the Next Generation of Social
Innovators (Year 3)
Project Director: Yi Zhang
$70,000
The project aims to further social innovation education in Asia and the U.S. by
fostering a group of youth changemakers and building a network of educators and
students leaders who inspire each other by sharing
their experiences and resources. The objectives are 1. Engage educators both in
Asia and the U.S. to improve social entrepreneurship education 2. Foster a core
group of emerging leaders in Asia and the U.S. 3. Build a Network among
educators, youth leaders, social entrepreneurship practitioners 4. Develop curricula, teaching materials and an online dissemination
platform to support educators and youth leaders.
Asian
Art Museum San
Francisco, CA
Japan Educators Network Project (Year 1)
Project Director: Caren Gutierrez
$70,000
In this project, Asian Art Museum will form and lead a network of museum
educators across the United States, and to leverage these educators’ regional
networks to ensure broader, national reach for Japan-focused materials. This
project builds upon the successes of the previous Bridget Japan Project, and
will leverage its resources to disseminate quality, engaging, and authoritative
resources on Japan’s art, history and culture. The project will create a
network of art museum education in the U.S. and Japan dedicated to improve
quality of resources, develop a model curriculum that will align with Common
Core Standards, and build awareness among K-12 teachers
of art museums as a major resource through the creation of a
microsite.
Museum of the Rockies Bozeman, MT
Building Community Partnerships: The Japan US Natural Science Museums Project
(Year 1)
Project Director: Dr. Patrick Leiggi
$60,000
This project will develop and expand the existing American and Japanese natural
history museum network to promote educational learning and community engagement
through sciences of paleontology, geology and astronomy. The museum curricula
that will be developed will be used with local schools to inspire lifelong
learning and will be made available in English and Japanese. This project will
involve the partnership of six museums that will engage public participation in
the communities of Kumamoto and the state of Montana and is designed to
increase educational programming and outreach in these sister states.
National
Association of Japan America Societies Washington, DC
JAS Network Support through NAJAS
Project Director: Makiko Murotani
$80,000
This project is aimed to provide an integrated program for the Japan-America
Society network, which combines structural, program and network growth support
from NAJAS. Member services will include 1) structural support of JASes through
strengthening management and Board capacity by holding an annual meeting that
will inform members of current US-Japan issues as well as to share best
practices and to develop leadership capability through mentorship and 2)
Program Support of JAS to encourage interest in public affairs relating to
Japan and provide services to current members through single speaker funding
for small scale JAS events.
United
States Japan Exchange and Teaching Program Alumni Association (USJETAA) Washington, DC
Developing Next Generation Leaders in the US-Japan Relationship through
USJETAA
Project Director: Laurel Lukaszewski
$65,000
This project aims to create a strong foundation in order to support the
professional network of alumni in the JET Programme. To do this, USETAA will
engage members in local communities, especially in regions where access to
resources is limited and to provide JETAA chapters with the tools to better
engage their members and local communities in their activities. Futhermore, the
project aims to improve networks of communities between JETAA and other organizations
at the local and national level.
Primary Source Boston, MA
Content Integration and Dissemination, Conference on Teaching Culture in the
Foreign Language Classroom, and Conference Outreach on Japan”
Project Director: Dr. Deborah Cunningham
$45,593
Primary Source will provide a three-part project designed to support K-12
teachers bringing Japan and Japanese culture into their classrooms: 1) through
their professional developing programming, the organization will provide
integrated exposure on Japan through case studies, examples and literature
which will demonstrate how themes already being taught in classrooms can
provide entrypoints for bringing Japanese culture to students 2) host a one-day
conference for Japanese language teachiners focusing on best practices on
teaching Japanese culture in the classroom and 3) lead workshops on Japan at
key conferences such as at the National Council Social Studies (NCSS)