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What's new in Spring '01…

* Spring 2001 Japan-US Nonprofit Internship Program participants gathered for the first-ever IP Pre-Departure Orientation in Tokyo, Dec. 2-3, 2000. All will be interning with Bay Area nonprofit organizations from Feb. 1-March 20, 2001, in a variety of fields and capacities.

This Spring, JUCEE's Japan-U.S. Nonprofit Internship Program (IP) is expecting its largest and most diverse group of interns from Japan yet, with 28 participants scheduled to intern with a variety of Bay Area nonprofit organizations from February 1 - March 20, 2001. In addition to many old friends who have hosted interns for us in previous years, this year we are excited to welcome 12 new host organizations to our IP family: the Asian American Theater Company; Bay Area Community Services (BACS); Bay Area Community Resources (BACR); Berkeley Youth Alternatives; Conard House, Inc.; East Bay Sanctuary Covenant; the Independent Press Association; lifeprint; Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NCCIR); Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal (OCCUR); Social Venture Network; and TransFair USA.
We are also looking forward to several new and exciting IP programmatic changes this Spring. First, in response to the requests of many of our previous host organizations and participants, the internship program has been extended an additional two weeks into a more comprehensive 7-week program. Second, the 2001 IP program will offer interns the chance to choose from three unique "focus areas" designed to relate to their specific fields while continuing to address general skills and topics of interest: Nonprofit Management, Nonprofits and Public Policy, and Nonprofit-Corporate Dynamics.
 Several new IP events are also in the works, from an interactive all-participant Public Forum in the Bay Area in March, to a JUCEE IP Fair in Tokyo in April. In addition to an optional weekend tour (March 2-3, 2001) with the theme "Maintaining peoples, needs, and resources: balancing communities and the environment in Northern California," we are also in the process of planning several half-day educational events within the Bay Area for our interns, ranging from hands-on wetlands restoration work to attending a rousing Sunday service at Glide Memorial Church. Stay tuned for updates!

Pre-Departure Orientation
in Tokyo
Spring'01 Pre-Departure Orientation guest speakers (from L to R):
*"Stern" Kusajima (IP Summer '98), who is fighting to preserve natural rivers and clean water as a city council member in Tsuruoka, Yamagata, lectured on "Nonprofits and Public Policy."
*Rumi Sato (IP Summer '98) lectured about her experience with "Nonprofit Management " as the director of "birth," a Tokyo-based NPO dedicated to environmental preservation.
*Yusuke Matsuo (IP Spring '98) lectured on socially responsible investment strategies and "Nonprofit-Corporate Dynamics."

This year, the Japan-U.S. Nonprofit Internship Program (IP) was pleased to offer its first-ever Pre-Departure Orientation for IP participants in Tokyo, December 2-3. 26 of our Spring 2001 IP participants were able to meet each other for the first time and take part in a series of workshops designed to help them prepare for their internships in the Bay Area, set to begin in February 2001.
 The first day featured an interactive workshop presentation by Katsuji Imata, JUCEE President/CEO, on "A Comparison of the Japanese and U.S. Nonprofit Sectors," which resulted in an animated and thought-provoking discussion among this year's enthusiastic IP participants.
 The second day featured inspiring presentations from three outstanding former IP participants. "Stern" Kusajima, who interned at International Rivers Network in 1998, spoke on the topic of "Nonprofits and Public Policy." Currently a member of the city council of Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, he described his campaign to preserve natural rivers and clean water in his hometown area. Rumi Sato, who interned at SeniorNet in 1998 and is the director of "birth," a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental preservation, spoke on the topic of "Nonprofit Management." Yusuke Matsuo, a Spring 1998 participant who interned at LaFetra Operating Foundation, gave a thought-provoking talk about "Nonprofit-Corporate Dynamics" based on his own work within the Japanese banking industry on socially responsible investment strategies. In addition, several other IP alumni were on-hand to offer advice and answer questions. The 2001 interns came away from the 2-day session better informed about the Japanese and U.S. nonprofit sectors, and motivated to begin considering what their contributions to these sectors might be in the future.

Our Empowered Program Alumni

On February 11th, JUCEE held its first award ceremony for our new JUCEE-Nippon Foundation Fellowship for Nonprofit Sector Development (JUNIF) in Tokyo, Japan. JUNIF was jointly established by the Nippon Foundation and JUCEE last year to help support distinguished, innovative nonprofit activities carried out by JUCEE’s Japan-U.S. Nonprofit Internship Program (IP) alumni. 11 IP alumni submitted proposals to the competition, and the awardees were Nobuhiro Ishii and Miho Matsumoto, both summer 1998 program participants. Each was awarded \1,000,000 (approximately $8,000).
Nobuhiro, who interned at San Francisco Conservation Corps - ECO Center through IP, will use his award to nurture the development of nonprofit organizations through his work at the Shimin Forum 21 NPO Center in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. He will also use his award to support nonprofit organizations such as Ecowork Station, which coordinates internships for youth and college students with environmental firms and NGOs to foster environmentally conscious leadership.
Miho, who worked as an intern at the International Rescue Committee, will use her award to support her activities at Mie Community Institute for Evaluation, a nonprofit organization that she helped establish last year to evaluate the effectiveness of various nonprofits in her native Mie Prefecture.
The award ceremony took place at JUCEE’s first reunion workshop, REunion for ACTive network (REACT), organized by and for the IP alumni.

New Developments in Spring 2000 Program

This spring, JUCEE focused its attention on university and graduate school students in Japan who have limited knowledge and experience in the nonprofit/volunteer field but have demonstrated strong interest in nonprofit involvement. The program ran from 2/24 to 3/28 and the theme of the training session, which has traditionally focused on nonprofit management, centered on “what it means to become a socially conscious citizen.”
Junichi Takaba, a graduate school student at Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) and the summer 1997 program alumnus who interned at United Food and Commercial Workers Local 101, was selected to mentor and assist the group of 11 interns from Japan.
The spring program welcomed four new, energetic host organizations: Ecology Center, Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and Our Schools Our Media. Today they are among the 85 host organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area which have worked with 153 interns from Japan through the Internship Program.

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