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Na Lei Aloha Foundation
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Lantern Floating Hawaii
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Global Shinnyo-en Website
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Exhibition of the Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito web site
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June 27, 2009 by
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June 20, 2009 by
Valley View Middle School’s sixth-grade Extended French students and their teacher, Heather Palmer, created a video called: “What’s your path to peace?” Through the video the student-teacher team hoped to inspire others to commit to daily acts of peace. The awards were presented at the National Service Learning Convention in Nashville. The service learning project [...]
June 20, 2009 by
Youth to Youth International The Shinnyo-en Foundation, in our continuing partnership with Youth to Youth International, supports a variety of extraordinary projects initiated by young people involved in community Youth to Youth programs. Each group involved in the collaboration works to develop their own project designed to specifically impact the needs of each unique community. [...]
June 19, 2009 by
The capital of Tennessee, Nashville, also known as “Music City USA” saw a new star take center stage, as the 20th Annual National Service Learning Conference took over the Nashville Convention Center from March 18 – 21, 2009. The Shinnyo-en Foundation co-sponsored the event with its theme “Growing Hope, Cultivating Change.” In this year of [...]
June 19, 2009 by
On February 5th, Chief Executive Officer, Haru Inouye traveled to British Columbia to meet renowned and inspirational author, Sydney Banks along with his wife Judy. Sydney Banks’ work is the inspiration behind the Shinnyo-en Foundation’s grantee, the Center for Sustainable Change. The Center’s aim is to teach parents, educators, youth-service workers, communities and organizations how [...]
June 18, 2009 by
The lecture, “Critiquing the Critique of Buddhist ‘Enlightenment Experience,’” was attended by over 50 participants, including Shinnyo-en Foundation staff. The talk was riveting as all in attendance were curious to learn what scholars had to say about the experience of enlightenment by Buddhists, either during recent times or in centuries gone by. Needless to say, [...]
June 18, 2009 by
UC Berkeley Cal Corps’ “Soul Food For The Activist Retreat” took place on the UC Berkeley Campus on April 4. This year’s day-long retreat was titled “Sustaining Ourselves for a Lifetime of Service Retreat.” The idea of the Retreat is to teach techniques to re-energize, re-connect, and re-align ourselves in our work and our lives. [...]
June 18, 2009 by
Shinnyo-en Foundation Partners with Youth to Youth International and their Six Billion Paths to Peace Demonstration Projects In the past few months the Foundation has begun a unique relationship with the Youth to Youth International Program, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Youth to Youth was founded in 1982 as a community-based youth leadership program focusing primarily [...]
June 18, 2009 by
Dr. Duncan Williams, Chair of the Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Japanese Buddhism, received his B.A. in Religious Studies at Reed College (1991), his M.T.S. at Harvard Divinity School (1993), and Ph.D. in Religion at Harvard University (2000). He works primarily on Japanese Buddhist history, Buddhism and environmentalism, and [...]
Ms. Nan Peterson is the Director of Service Learning for The Blake School located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is also the first and only Senior Fellow of the Shinnyo-en Foundation. Read more...
