2025 GVJCI Raffle Drawing
CONGRATULATIONS 2025 Winners!
Thank you to all who participated and/or donated! Winners have been notified.
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1st Prize: $1,000.00 Norman Shizumura
2nd Prize: $500.00 Jaxon Doi 3rd Prize: $500.00 Scott Harada 4th Prize: $250.00 Bernice Oshio 5th Prize: $250.00 Carole Tokudomi |
Please join us for our RAFFLE DRAWING:
Thursday, January 30th, 10:00am, Nisei Veterans Memorial Hall
Enjoy LIVE Music by Japanese Flutist Ken and his band Umeboshi!
Thursday, January 30th, 10:00am, Nisei Veterans Memorial Hall
Enjoy LIVE Music by Japanese Flutist Ken and his band Umeboshi!
2024 YEAR-END RAFFLE & DONATION APPEAL
Happy Holidays from the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute’s (GVJCI) Staff & Board and best wishes for a brighter New Year 2025! This is the season for gratitude, kansha, and the GVJCI has so much to be grateful for because of all of you. You keep our community center active and alive! Our buildings are full of activity seven days a week with your participation in and support of our programs & services, and GVJCI member organizations’ activities. We couldn’t do all that we continue to do without you. We were built by the community, and are truly sustained by the community.
OUR MISSION: A space to engage, share, and embrace the Nikkei experience and culture.
OUR ROOTS: We were formally incorporated in 1967, but our roots in the South Bay trace back over 100 years ago through our Japanese Language School’s legacy.
WHO WE ARE: GVJCI is a nonprofit organization that engages the community to explore the Nikkei heritage, culture, and contemporary issues through a variety of programs and services. Community space is offered to a wide variety of nonprofit cultural, educational and community-based organizations, as well as for private use.
WHY SUPPORT US: We need your support to continue these programs and services, and keep the facilities in good operating condition for the community to use.
In 2024, your support helped to defray our ongoing campus expenses of utilities, maintenance, and supplies, and helped to enable us to complete major campus upgrades: solar panel installation, security system upgrades, and new paint and flooring in the GVJCI Nisei Veterans Memorial Hall which will be 60 years old in 2025! Each year, we experience an increase in the amount of major repairs, replacements, and expenses needed for our facilities and campus grounds. In 2025, we will be working on more major building improvements—continuing the Nisei Veterans Memorial Hall upgrades, replacing the perimeter fence and gates, and our wish list is to rehabilitate the much needed JCI Building’s main hall and kitchen. The JCI Building will be 49 years old next year! We ask for your help again with this 2025 Raffle & Year-end Donation Appeal!
HOW YOU CAN HELP: There are TWO ways that will help us tremendously.
1) Purchase GVJCI year-end raffle tickets. Ticket cost is $2.00 per ticket or $20.00 per book.
Enter for your chance to win one of five cash prizes of (2) $250, (2) $500, and $1,000! Raffle drawing will take place on Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM. Participants need not be present to win! One prize per person. Please note - only adults (18+) can win.
RAFFLE TICKETS: If you're on our snail mailing list, tickets were mailed in October 2024. Additional raffle tickets can be mailed upon request, please leave a message at 310-324-6611, or you can email us at [email protected].
2) Donate an additional monetary gift, which is tax deductible as a Charitable Contribution. If you would like to see GVJCI continue serving the community of people young and old, please help us along this path by making an additional tax deductible gift of $100, $250, $500, $1,000 or more before December 31st.
Thank you very much for your support that you give to GVJCI. We wish you and your family a healthy and joyous holiday season!
