MORE THAN EVER, WE MUST MAKE A LITTLE TROUBLE This year will be exciting. With our office reconstruction completed except for backyard landscaping and installing a lift for handicap access, the new office enables us to engage more effectively with…
The years 2023 and 2024 have been transformative. The Foundation emerged from the pandemic a stronger organization, with innovative methods, and renewed alliances. The Mellon Foundation supported an entire rebuilding and doubling of our office space, and the DC Commission…
I do want to say few closing remarks. It is easy for us to pronounce that the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act is for the purpose of righting a wrong, to get justice for the harm and violence that…
From the Executive Director’s Desk.
Lunar New Year Killings Bring Focus to Guns and Mental Health Again.
There is so much that we do not know about the back-to-back mass killings at Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, but two elements stand out –guns and mental health. Many people will bring attention (as they already have) to the role of guns. Warnings and calls for action deserve consideration once again, and again with another mass, senseless killing, continuously once more. (more…)
Dear Friends: I can’t believe that the year 2022 will soon be over and we start anew. It will be a challenging year, but the heart of our work remains our Talk Story programs. Whether at the Summit Tunnel in California, or at educational workshops in DC and Richmond, or among federal and private financial supporters of heritage and history, we will be guided by Talk Story principles –uncovering our stories, preserving them, and telling them in our own voices across generations. Our community is strengthened by that process. Your constant support is much appreciated. (more…)
January 1, 2022
Friends:
As the old year closes and a new year begins, I want to thank you for supporting our programs big and small throughout this last year and throughout our over ten years of activities as the 1882 Foundation.
Our first Talk Story event was held at the Chinatown Community Cultural Center in 2011. That year, Stan and I established the principle that we would hold an event once a month in DC Chinatown on a Chinese American subject. The principle would become fundamental. It has guided us even when we attracted only a dozen attendees (half of whom were the speaker’s family and always my loving wife Mohkeed). We have since organized national conferences and regional workshops. We have led in the recognition and registration of national historic places and promoted innovations and partnerships in how Chinese American history and heritage are taught. (more…)