Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program

07/11/2024

We are pleased to announce the new grant awards for the Fiscal Year 2024 JACS grant program!

Read the full press release for a list of the 9 funded grant projects.

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/national-park-service-awards-more-than-$3-2-million-in-grants-to-preserve-and-interpret-world-war-ii-japanese-american-incarceration-sites.htm

Image courtesy: University of Arkansas, Rising Above in Arkansas website

10/11/2023

The premiere screening of “The Blue Jay” (funded in part by a JACS grant) will be shown on Sunday, October 29 at JANM’s Tateuchi Democracy Forum at 3pm!

The film screening will be followed by a discussion with the film’s cast and director, Marlene Shigekawa, and then a reception.

For tickets to this free event, please visit the following website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/premiere-screening-of-the-blue-jay-film-reception-with-director-cast-tickets-723231674407?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/04/2023

The premiere of the short documentary, One Fighting Irishman (Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center) will be shown on Saturday, October 28, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. (PST) at JANM’s Tateuchi Democracy Forum!

Funded in part by a JACS grant, the screening will be followed by a discussion with George Takei, filmmaker Sharon Yamato, Wayne Merrill Collins, and Brian Niiya.

Please visit JANM’s website to reserve your tickets:

Premiere Screening—One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center | Japanese American National Museum (janm.org).

09/29/2023

Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimage’s Tadaima: A Community Virtual Pilgrimage begins this Sunday, October 1!

Funded in part by a JACS grant, this month-long online pilgrimage will feature various programs, including those that touch upon the World War II history of Japanese American incarceration.

For the full program schedule, please visit Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimage’s website at: https://www.jampilgrimages.com/tadaima2023.

09/28/2023

This Saturday, September 30, the documentary "Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust" (funded in part by a JACS grant) will be shown at JANM’s Tateuchi Democracy Forum!

The screening, which is part of a day-long symposium, will be followed by a discussion with Ann Kaneko (Film Director) and Noah Williams (Bishop Paiute Tribe).

For more information, and to register for this free event, please visit the following website: Climates of Inequality Symposium | Japanese American National Museum (janm.org).

Visit the project website for additional information on the documentary: https://manzanardiverted.com/.

08/31/2023

The National Park Service is now accepting applications for the 2024 Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. These matching grants provide financial assistance to organizations and entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history. Grants will be awarded dependent on funds appropriated by Congress.

For more information on eligibility requirements and the application process, please visit the JACS Grant Program website at: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1379/grant-application.htm.

Information is also available on grants.gov (search for Funding Opportunity Number P24AS00023).

Fiscal Year 2024 Japanese American Confinement Sites grant applications must be received by Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 5:00 PM (Mountain Time).

Congress established the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program (Public Law 109-441, 120 Stat. 3288) for the preservation and interpretation of incarceration sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The law authorized up to $38 million for the entire life o...

08/29/2023

Funded, in part, by a FY2022 JACS grant, the National Veterans Network (NVN) and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center presented the Teacher Training Institute to provide teachers with resources to teach elementary and middle school students about the history of Japanese American World War II incarceration and the Nisei soldiers who volunteered for military service while their families remained incarcerated behind barbed wire.

Interested in learning more? Please visit the NVN website for more information: https://nvnvets.org/.

10/11/2022

The FY2023 JACS grant application deadline is quickly approaching!

Applications must be received by Wednesday, November 9, 2022
at 5 pm (Mountain Time). Note: this is not a postmark date.

For more information, please visit the JACS Grant Program website at https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1379/grant-application.htm.

Information is also available on grants.gov (search for Funding Opportunity Number P23AS00031).

Congress established the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program (Public Law 109-441, 120 Stat. 3288) for the preservation and interpretation of incarceration sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The law authorized up to $38 million for the entire life o...

10/11/2022

Tune in today (Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 5 pm PT) for a public virtual screening of “Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust,” funded in part by a JACS grant.

The film will be followed by a panel including: Kathy Bancroft, Lone Pine Tribal Historic Preservation Officer; Monica Mariko Embrey, Sierra Club Senior Associate Director of National Energy Campaigns; Amanda Begley, TreePeople Watershed Education Specialist; Ann Kaneko, producer/director and Jin Yoo-Kim, producer/impact producer.

You can sign up at tinyurl.com/mdsierra.

EXPERIENCE THE FILM DAY OF ACTION At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American and rancher comm...

09/07/2022

The National Park Service is now accepting applications for the 2023 Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant Program. These matching grants provide financial assistance to organizations and entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history. Grants will be awarded dependent on funds appropriated by Congress.

For more information on eligibility requirements and the application process, please visit the JACS Grant Program website at https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1379/grant-application.htm. Information is also available on grants.gov (search for Funding Opportunity Number P23AS00031).

Fiscal Year 2023 Japanese American Confinement Sites grant applications must be received by Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 5:00 PM (Mountain Time).

06/21/2022

We are pleased to announce the new grant awards for the Fiscal Year 2022 JACS grant program!

Read the full press release for a list of the 19 funded grant projects.

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/national-park-service-awards-3-4-million-in-grants-to-preserve-and-interpret-world-war-ii-japanese-american-confinement-sites.htm

02/23/2022

The Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program newsletter, "2020: A Year in Review: Preserving and Interpreting WWII Japanese American Confinement Sites," is now available on the JACS Grant Program website. The newsletter highlights projects completed in 2020: