As
JUCEE's first and oldest program, IP has successfully
placed over 192 interns from Japan in 94 nonprofit organizations
in the San Francisco Bay Area. By placing interns from
Japan in U.S. nonprofit organizations, IP contributes
to the development of socially conscious leadership
in Japan, creates a network of people associated with
the nonprofit sectors of Japan and the U.S., and educates
U.S. nonprofit professionals about Japan's nonprofit
sector.
The
Nichibei Pathfinding Opportunity Program provides internships
/ fellowships for people from the U.S. with experience
in the nonprofit sector and potential and vision to
promote change in their communities to work with community-based
nonprofit organizations in Japan on issues of common
concern. U.S. participants and Japanese host organizations
work with each other on issues such as housing and homelessness,
immigrants and minority labor rights, environmental
justice and other social justice issues.
Japan-U.S.
Community Education and Exchange's (JUCEE) Fellowships
Creating Partnerships Program (FCP) began in 1998 as
JUCEE's newest program. JUCEE realized that just as
individuals can grow from international exchanges within
the nonprofit sector and that the nonprofit sector can
change as the result of international exchanges, organizations
too can benefit from working together internationally
on an equal level. In 1998, five organizations in the
U.S. and Japan were selected by JUCEE to participate
in a program with the goal of building long-term organizational
collaborations on issues of common concern. The organizations
participated in trainings and facilitation crafted and
implemented by JUCEE. For three months of the first
year of the program, Japanese Fellows from 5 organizations
worked beside their U.S. organizational counterparts
in the United States in order to lay the foundation
for strong organization-to-organization understanding.
Following the Fellowships their U.S. cohorts went to
Japan to work on collaborative projects.
