BIG MAHALO to our members and friends who donated to our supply drive to help the Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center support our community. We gathered hygiene products such as soap, shampoo, razors, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and first aid kit products, in addition to water bottles, clothes, socks and masks!
We truly appreciate your generosity and support. Thank you!
We had a tee-riffic time at the Bay View Driving Range! Thank you to everyone for coming out to our first in-person Sports Committee membership event! Mahalo to Bay View Golf Course for hosting us and to Pomaikai Shishido for giving us some valuable golf tips and advice!
A new year means new connections and that’s exactly what our members got out of our Virtual Pau Hana on Wednesday night. Presentations were given by board members with committees so attendees could learn about what we do and how to get involved.
After our speakers, we did breakout rooms to network and talk about various topics relating to the HJJCC and our events. Committee meetings will be open, so look out for an email with details on the upcoming meetings!
It's a new year and a great time to set new financial goals. Our members were able to get an introduction and refresher on personal finance. Financial planners, Steve Adams and Dane Sako, were able to share their expertise and answer all of our questions. In addition, our members were able to catch up with each other following the presentation.
Thank you to our members and speakers for a great first YBR event of 2021. We hope to see you at our future events!
“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.” - Charles Schulz
Our members came out in force again, filled with the holiday spirit in support of our kupuna on Oahu and Kauai! We helped the Hawaii Foodbank pack over 2,100 “healthier choice” food boxes for our local seniors in need. We had a lot of fun and are grateful for the opportunity to give a little of ourselves to those who need it most.
We partnered with award-winning cake shop, A Cake Life, to bring you a Virtual Cookie Decorating Class featuring three different cookie designs: a Christmas tree, a stocking, and a snowman, which is an exclusive shape for the HJJCC! Owner Kristin Kato taught us her tips and tricks on how to decorate these festive cookies! Check out some of the photos:
On Friday, December 4th, we had our first in-person HJJCC Membership event of the fiscal year! Although we had to stay a little more "split" compared to our previous events, our members brought their holiday spirit with them to Aiea Bowl for our Bowling for Tots event!
We collected toy donations for Toys for Tots while members spent the night bowling in groups of five or less. Some teams left more pins standing than others, but we all had tons of fun!
Thank you for donating to our Toys for Tots drive!
We were excited to hold our Adopt-a-School Day project with the brand new Honouliuli Middle School as they prepare to welcome their first full class of 6th grade students! We helped by creating mask wearing and social distancing signs and placing those along with markers and arrows throughout their campus. We also festively decorated bulletin boards, assisted staff with power washing, and prepared 32 “survival kits” for Honouliuli MS teachers and staff!
Sometimes we need a reminder that the only constant in life is change, and that’s not a bad thing. Last week, we had the opportunity to listen in and engage with Organizational Development Consultant, Jeff Berlin, on how to navigate through change. Jeff shared a simple change model with members on how we could identify, analyze and plan for the expected and unexpected changes in our lives. Members stayed after to network, catch up, and pau hana with one another in smaller break-out rooms.
Mahalo to Jeff and everyone who was able to attend, we’re looking forward to our next YBR event and hope you’ll be able to join us!
We had a great time meeting members of the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce at our joint Virtual Speed Networking event on Wednesday, October 28, 2020! Members of both organizations were paired up in breakout rooms for four, 10-minute networking sessions. All participants were entered to win prizes, including gift cards from Rainbow Drive-In and a HJCC 120th Anniversary polo shirt. Congratulations to the winners!
😺 Mahalo to everyone who stopped by with donations for our first drop-off of our Pet Supply Drive to benefit the Hawaiian Humane Society! Don't forget that we have another donation drop-off tomorrow, October 29th, at the Japanese Cultural Center from 5:30pm-6:30pm. Even if you didn't RSVP, feel free to bring by your donations! 🐶
💌 We dropped off OVER 200 birthday, holiday and greeting cards to Kuakini Home for our HJJCC Care Cards project - many completely handmade by our member volunteers!👏🏼 Pictured here is VP Community Development, Ross Kohara with Suzette from Kuakini! Thank you to all members who participated!🤗
We did it! Congrats to both teams who successfully snuck backstage to meet Bruce Springsteen in the “Sneaking Backstage” Virtual Escape Room event on Saturday, October 24, 2020.
Team CBF Troopers finished first in just over 40 minutes and Team Two wasn’t too far behind, finishing in 46 minutes. Everyone had a great time and even got into the Halloween spirit a little!
Missed our HJJCC Dog Toy Making Event? No worries! Check out this video for step-by-step instructions for how to make homemade dog toys with gently used t-shirts!
We just finished our first HJJCC Virtual Paint Party hosted by Andrea James, owner of Create A Canvas!🎨🖌 Everyone channeled their inner artist as we painted a landscape picture of a waterfall behind a bamboo forest! It was so much fun and everyone's paintings turned out great!🤗
Last month, our sister city chapter, Kobe invited us to participate in a virtual discussion regarding the impacts of COVID-19 and its current effects on our chapters. Kobe JC President Tomohiro Kawatani, Singapore JC President Ian Lew, Taiwan Kaohsiung JC President Anson Huang, and our HJJCC President Crystine Ito, shared their thoughts with 200 participants on this global issue, including how each chapter is adapting to this constant change and how they are overcoming challenges.
After the panel presentation, we were lucky to have the opportunity to split up virtually into small breakout rooms to have further discussion on COVID19 impacts with the other participating members.
Thank you to the Kobe JCs for allowing us to be part of this great event!
Today, we volunteered with the Hawaii Foodbank 🥫. We packed over 2,000 "healthier choice" food boxes 📦 for seniors in need. Now more than ever, people facing food insecurity are counting on the Hawaii Foodbank, and even through these difficult times, they continue to provide food to those facing hunger in our community. We had so much fun and we were happy to have the opportunity to help!
Mahalo to Mindy for leading the yoga class for our HJJCC Virtual Vino & Vinyasa event last night! If you enjoyed it as much as we did, Mindy leads donation-based Zoom yoga classes twice a week. Check her out on Instagram at @yogababymindles or mindynguyenyoga.com!
Thanks to everyone who joined us last night for Virtual Game Night! We had a blast playing Scattergories, True/False trivia, and doing a scavenger hunt that had everyone running around their homes!🤣
Congrats to our game winners and to Mari who won the grand prize $25 gift card!
Today we were happy to help Pohakea Elementary apply social distancing markers throughout their campus in preparation for welcoming their students back to school safely. Thank you to all who volunteered their time to help!
