Established in January 1991, the JCCC Foundation and its programs are the formalized expression of friendship and community involvement of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Chicago (JCCC). The Foundation, an active member of the Donors Forum, is a major JCCC program. Though Chamber member companies are involved in volunteer and philanthropic activities on an individual basis, the JCCC Foundation allows the Japanese business community as a whole to come together and support Chicago.

Through the Foundation, the JCCC has been able to contribute to a variety of organizations and programs over the past eighteen years. And it has been the hope of our members that the Foundation's practice of annual giving will develop into a long term tradition of supporting the community.