Lighting a New Future

In early 2027, Go For Broke National Education Center will open its new, permanent home in the Go For Broke Plaza, adjacent to the Go For Broke Monument, in partnership with the Little Tokyo Service Center. We invite you to secure the Japanese American WWII veterans’ legacy through the campaign for our new home.

Please respond by November 6, 2026, to be part of this special campaign.

Our Future

Our Lighting a New Future Campaign honors our core mission to remember, educate, and inspire. To achieve this vision, support is needed in two distinct ways:

Annual Giving (Memberships & General Donations): Funds our immediate, yearly operations to keep our doors open and sustain our vital mission.
Capital Campaign: Invests in our permanent foundation to enhance our reach, upgrade infrastructure, and secure our long-term future

Annual gifts maintain our present. This Campaign accelerates our future and will allow us to:

Expand our reach: Launch a dynamic slate of new workshops, exhibits, symposiums, performances, and community events
Establish key partnerships: Build innovative collaborations across the county to amplify our message
Inspire the next generation: Create engaging, relevant ways to bring this history to younger audiences from all backgrounds
Dedicate a Wall of Service: Complementing the Go For Broke Monument listing of the 16,000 Japanese American WWII veterans who served in the Pacific and European theaters, the new Wall of Service will list the approximately 17,000 who did not serve overseas but remain a vital part of the story
Secure our legacy: Strengthen our endowment to guarantee long-term growth and sustainability

Our New Home

In early 2027, Go For Broke National Education Center will open its new, rent-free permanent home in the Go For Broke Plaza, adjacent to the Go For Broke Monument. The Plaza is a 330,000-square-foot, multi-use project with 248 affordable housing units, retail, green spaces, and walkways connecting directly to the Monument. Built in partnership with the Little Tokyo Service Center, this project realizes a decades-long community effort funded through tax credits, public grants, and private investments.

Expanding on the City of Los Angeles lease secured by our veterans close to 30 years ago, our new 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility features:

Multipurpose Room
Learning Hall
Resource Library
Collections Room
Conference Rooms
Reflections Walkway
Office Atrium

Inspire the Next Generation

The moment is here for bold, visionary action.

We invite you to secure the Japanese American WWII veterans’ legacy through the Lighting a New Future campaign. Your investment ensures that future generations will be inspired by the values our veterans lived: courage, sacrifice, equality, humility, and social justice.

Ways to Invest in the Future

We welcome individual and family contributions through flexible giving options, including:

Cash gifts and multi-year pledges
IRA distributions
Appreciated stock transfers
Donor-Advised Funds (DAF)
Corporate matching gift programs

Campaign Donor Levels and Benefits

Please respond by November 6, 2026, to be part of this special campaign.
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$10,000

Permanent recognition on the Lighting a New Future Campaign Donor Wall in the Lobby Foyer
Prominent recognition in the Go For Broke Plaza Grand Opening Commemorative Program Book and on the GFBNEC website
President’s Club level membership (one-year complimentary)
Invitation (for 2) to Private Grand Opening VIP Breakfast Reception (early 2027)

$5,000

Prominent recognition in the Go For Broke Plaza Grand Opening Commemorative Program Book and on the GFBNEC website
President’s Club level membership (one-year complimentary)
Invitation (for 2) to Private Grand Opening VIP Breakfast Reception (early 2027)

$2,500

Recognition in the Go For Broke Plaza Grand Opening Commemorative Program Book and on the GFBNEC website
President’s Club level membership (one-year complimentary)

$1,000

Recognition in the Go For Broke Plaza Grand Opening Commemorative Program Book and on the GFBNEC website

$500

Recognition in the Go For Broke Plaza Grand Opening Commemorative Program Book

For questions, contact campaign@goforbroke.org, or call (310) 328-0907.

Naming Opportunities

Contact Janis Tanji Wong, vice president of development and strategic initiatives, at janis@goforbroke.org to discuss naming opportunities in the new building.

All naming rights are for 25 years and include plaques in suitable locations to be reviewed with donors. Gifts may be made“in honor of” or “in memory of.”