The FoundatiOn Team is On Ensemble’s core group of fans; the critical support group that makes new music and great performances possible. It is the financial support of the FoundatiOn Team that makes On Ensemble’s home concerts feasible. To show our appreciation each year we prepare special thank-you gifts, including limited edition CD singles, organic cotton t-shirts and other goodies that are available only to our FoundatiOn Team members.
I’m pleased to announce we have sent this year’s thank you gifts to all 83 donors! This year we offered our greenest gifts yet — an all organic cotton FoundatiOn Team t-shirt and a recycled-cotton, reusable On Ensemble grocery bag, sent in an all-recycled container!
Maz recycling boxes
Every donor received the ‘08 FoundatiOn Team CD, featuring 4 brand-new tracks. Without a doubt, this is the best FoundatiOn Team CD we’ve made. Shoj poured tons of work into the tracks, and the CD design is extremely cool!
FoundatiOn Team CDs and t-shirts
Thank you again to all our donors. Some love is headed your way!
Wow! Our FoundatiOn Team really came through for us this year we set a new fund raising record! We have a last batch of donors to thank: Cheryl Toyama, Henry & Mari Fujii, Stacey Nakasone, Lara Shing & Pablo Garcia and Pamela Okano.
Thank you to everybody who donated this year! Your support really makes the difference!
The thank-you gifts are coming along nicely! Shoji and Maz have been hard at work on the FoundatiOn Team limited-edition CD and Kris has just finished the recycled-cotton, On Ensemble, reusable shopping bags! All of this coming soon to this year’s donors!
Thank you goes out to our final FoundatiOn Team members: Ayumi and Brent Pantell, Hiroka Fujimoto, Rafael Fernandez and Lisa Shimamoto, Ryan Ishikawa and Andrew Lin. Also thank you to the FoundatiOn Team donors who donated at the concert, your support is greatly appreciated and you’ve helped us set a new fund raising record of $8936!
Whew… We just finished our annual home concert and have many people to thank. A big thank you goes out to Johnny Mori, the Japanese American Community and Cultural Center and the great staff at the Aratani Japan America Theater. Thank you to Kevin and Travis our great sound guys and a HUGE thank you goes out to our great lighting designer Eileen Cooley for all of her work! A big thank you goes out to our FoundatiOn Team who helped us set a new fund raising record this year and to all of our fans who came out to the show!
Also a special thank you goes out to Kris’ sensei Kineya Katsuyukie for coming all the way from Japan to be a part of our show and finally congrats to Kris for receiving his natori! We all very proud of Kris!
A big thank you goes out to our newest FoundatiOn Team members: Jacob Gorelik, Donna Jumoto and Jen Baik! Our fund raising record continues to climb!
We just set a new FoundatiOn Team record of $8431! A huge thank you goes out to our newest FoundatiOn Team members for putting us over the top: Cathy Ginn, Bryan Yamami, Ken Noriega, Nicki Bergstrom & Dan Noel, Edward Marks, Kate Meigneux, Berit Eisenmann, Sonya Elder, Helen Inouye, Jeff Ellsworth, Gary Takagi, Annette Mackay, Sharon Sato, Yuki & Yukio Imada, Jason Takagi and Vera Leo. We’ve set a new record and still have two weeks to go before Yobu!
We’ve been blown away by the FoundatiOn Team support this year! Thank you to everyone who have made a donated this year. This year’s concert is a special event for us with Kris’ receiving his natori and bringing his sensei from Japan and your donation will go a long way in making it all possible!
Great news! We just met our FoundatiOn Team Goal of $7021 thanks to a generous donation from Jun Daiko! Jun Daiko is a Mountain View based taiko group that teaches and practices at the Mountain View Buddhist Temple. It’s filled with ex-members of Stanford Taiko, Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble, Zenshin Daiko and a few others who have migrated to the Bay Area. Thanks guys!
Our new FoundatiOn Team Goal is to break our all time FoundatiOn Team record of $8130 set back in 2004!
Our FoundatiOn Team donors continue to come through for us! A huge thank you goes out to our newest FoundatiOn Team members: Diana Furuta, Deborah Wong, JoAnn Cho, Dardy Chang, Tony, Val and Preston Jones, Frances Wong, George Aoyama, Donna Ebata, Karen and Joseph Johnson, Marjorie Wu, David Okihiro, Louis Laudermilk, Tami Kamaeda, Audrey Nakasone, Chester Mark, R. C. Friedrich and Sharon Houston! Thank you all, we’re now only $300 away from our fund raising goal this year!
