“Like throwing dust against the wind, when you act against the wind,
when you act against truth, it will only blow back on you.”
- Shinjo Ito
when you act against truth, it will only blow back on you.”
- Shinjo Ito
Shinnyo-en USA
www.shinnyoenusa.net
Na Lei Aloha Foundation
www.naleialoha.org
Lantern Floating Hawaii
www.lanternfloatinghawaii.com
Global Shinnyo-en Website
www.shinnyoen.org
Exhibition of the Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito web site
www.shinjoito.com
The Univers Foundation
www.univers.or.jp/index2.html
February 1, 2011 by
January 19th, 2011 Cake, balloons, music and fun- members of Blake’s Upper School Community Service Board didn’t miss a thing when they hosted a birthday party for their senior citizen friends as part of the Friendly Visiting Program. Through Little Brothers: Friends of the Elderly, Blake’s Upper School students serve those who are sixty and older, [...]
November 19, 2010 by
Rebecca Richardson is currently a junior at Stanford University majoring in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE). The CSRE is an interdisciplinary major that allows her to combine courses from several different departments and craft her own area of concentration. For the past two years she has been volunteering on a weekly basis at [...]
October 4, 2010 by
“What creates my path to peace is the ability to recognize the many wonderful gifts in our lives that we simply take for granted. In a recent visit to India, I met and helped mentally disabled children in an orphanage. What I experienced there changed my life. Seeing those children, abandoned by their parents, helpless, [...]
October 1, 2010 by
The Shinnyo-en Foundation (SEF) and the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership (CNPL), Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley welcomed a delegation of 40 Japanese public officials from the Japan Intercultural Academy of Municipalities (JIAM) to the UC Berkeley campus on Monday, October 18, 2010. This was a truly collaborative endeavor between the two organizations [...]
September 29, 2010 by
“What’s your Path to Peace?” Courtney Alpeter, a senior at the Blake School asks an audience of first through fourth graders. “What act of peace did you do yesterday?” Many, many hands fly up into the air. “I helped my mommy do the dishes.” “I was nice to my little brother.” “I sang a song.” [...]
June 29, 2010 by
Not a single cloud in the blue skies of the Big Apple! The weather forecast for rain and thunder for June 28th, was knocked out with a burst of sunshine on opening day of the world’s largest gathering of service and volunteer leaders: The National Conference on Volunteering and Service 2010! Shinnyo-en Foundation’s Heart of [...]
June 12, 2010 by
Shinnyo-en Foundation sponsored the Second Annual Governor and First Lady’s MEDALS FOR SERVICE awards ceremony at the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento on May 6, 2010. The awards are designed to distinguish individual volunteers, business volunteer programs and nonprofit leaders whose innovation in the field of volunteerism have had a [...]
June 10, 2010 by
When you think Hawaii, what comes to mind? Sun, sea, surf and sand; hula dancers and fancy shirts? The evening sun sinking into the water, those perfect sideways-leaning palm trees? For the more serious vacationer, perhaps Diamond Head and Pearl Harbor, go-to destinations? So it might seem incongruous that a week ago I was celebrating [...]
May 26, 2010 by
George Mason University Showcases Shinnyo Fellows Program at the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO During the five day American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, George Mason University (GMU) representatives showcased the Shinnyo Fellows Program on May 2, 2010 in a roundtable discussion with researchers and students from a variety of [...]
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...
