MAKE A DONATION
Your donation will support the revitalization of Japanese traditional crafts.
Sponsor
One option is to sponsor a scholarship for a student at the Shin Machiya Juku Building School. In addition to membership-qualifying contributions, we offer various opportunities, such as providing living assistance for apprentices (apprenticeship programs in Japan typically do not provide living expenses to apprentices), underwriting craft-promoting events, etc.
Volunteer
The success of JapanCraft21 is largely dependent on volunteer assistance. Volunteer activities may involve an occasional few minutes up to a few hours each month. More ambitious volunteer positions offer exciting opportunities for direct involvement with crafts people.
Some of the volunteer opportunities we offer include:
- Research to enhance our information on the arts of Japan
- Assist in preparing applicant info for our judges
- Work behind the scenes at our events
- Interview crafts people for social media.
- Create very short video clips for social media
- Edit English or Japanese text
- Simply share our posts on social media
- Educational event planning
- Assist in the recruitment of new JC21 members
- Encourage crafts people to apply to our contests
- Underwrite a contest to revitalize a Japanese Master Craft for the 21st century
- Apprentice sponsorship program:
$100 to $10,000 (currently $10,000 = 1.5 million yen)
$100 - two-day sponsorship
$250 - one week sponsorship
$1,000 - one month sponsorship
$12,000 - one year sponsorship
- Building School Scholarship Sponsor (see adjacent Sponsor column): $2,000 for one-year scholarship for carpentry, plastering or gardening.
- Friends of JapanCraft21: $100 to $999
- General Member: $1,000 to $4,999
- Founders’ Circle: $5,000 to $9,999
- Patrons’ Circle: $10,000 to $49,999
- Contest Patron: $50,000 or more (to sponsor one first prize).
Donation amounts are based on 100 yen to 1 U.S. dollar, due to frequently fluctuating currency conversion rates. At the moment, $1 = 150 yen, which is a sudden change given America's high interest rate regime versus Japan's near-zero interest rate policy.
To maintain a consistent standard for accounting, we convert your earmarked dollar donations made via the Asia Society New York at a rate of $1 = 100 yen. This allows for any and all differences in currency conversion rates between the time your contribution is submitted via the Asia Society New York and the time funds are converted, transferred to Japan and deposited in the JapanCraft21 bank account. Any currency gain or loss in value above or below the original donation amount that is due to exchange rates are allocated to our General donation funds.
