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.
We’re now at $5825, almost 60% toward our goal! Thank you to the following generous donors, including our first online donations!
Audrey Nakasone
Brian Yamagata
Carol Lin
David Okihiro
Gary Ono
Hiromi Ashmore
Karen and Joe Denton Johnson
Larry An and Eileen Ho
Nelson Yamagata
Rosh and Joy Tanaka
We’re half-way to our goal! Thank you so very much to our most recent donors!
Carol Ono
Gwen Gibson
Karen Reid
Margie Wu
Michael & Joyce Yoshimura
Tina Marier
As of Dec 4, we’re almost halfway to our goal, thanks to the generous donations by all these great friends. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Alysse Itatani
Annette Mackay
Brett, Kristi & Jalen Iwami-Asamoto
Donna Cole
Donna Uyematsu
Eric Lineback
Floyd & Lynda Kameda
Henry & Mari Fujii
Hiroka Fujimoto
Ibuki Lee
Jacob Gorelik
Jason Takagi
Jeff Ellsworth
Jerry & Carol Baba
Jimmy Takagi & Glenn Davis
John & Gloria Masunaga
Jon & Diane Bergstrom
Joyce & Tuan Tran
Ken Noriega
Lauren Bailey
Linda & John Lindsay
Linda Kimura
Lynn Reynolds
Mary & George Fujimoto
Mike & Chandra Fienen
Miyo Minato
Rob Friedrich and Sharon Houston
Sherri & Yutaka Kawazoye
Sonya Elder
Stan Shikuma
Steve Sano & Linda Uyechi
Susan Kanagawa and Raymond Yuen
Tadashi Kameda & Laura Masunaga
Ted & Reiko Kameda
Vera Leo
Please help On Ensemble reach our goal of $10,000!
Now accepting donations online!
In preparation for Works in Progress, we have begun the 2009 FoundatiOn Team fund drive! Our goal is to raise $10,000 this year, enabling the creation of a whole concert of brand-new music. This self-produced concert is our once-a-yearvenue for high-risk, high-potential new music and I think we’ve got some potentially revolutionary taiko pieces!
Every donor to the fund drive gets the 2009 limited-edition FoundatiOn Team CD, with brand-new studio tracks from On Ensemble! Donors can receive the newly-designed FoundatiOn Team t-shirt (made with organic cotton!), a recycled-cotton grocery bag with the On Ensemble logo, and quarterly love letters from On Ensemble members!
In addition, I’m particularly excited about a one-of-a-kind collaboration to bring hands-on taiko workshops to Los Angeles public-school students. We have partnered with Glassell Park Elementary to integrate taiko workshops with the school’s curriculum. For every $1000 we raise, On Ensemble will provide a hands-on workshop, specifically designed for 4th and 5th-grade students, free of charge to Glassell Park Elementary! With our goal of $10,000, we’ll provide a series of nine workshops, plus a final performance involving the students!
I’ve thought long and hard about how to make this year’s fundraising campaign special; how it could maximize your contribution. I’m proud to say, this is it!
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With your donation, you become a member of the FoundatiOn Team and…
• You empowerthe creation of exciting, new taiko music
• You enable hands-on arts education for public school students
• You step in where arts funding has fallen short
• You take advantage of the best donation deal in town!
But I know I haven’t convinced you yet…
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!
