The ABAS Law Foundation is the 501(c)(3) educational and charitable counterpart to ABAS,
the Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento. The Foundation was established in 1997
to initiate and support educational and charitable works in Sacramento's API community.
Its activities have included multilingual voter assistance and workshops on voting,
immigration and employment discrimination law. It also served as the fiscal agent for
a $30,000 grant of cy prez funds for the benefit of CAPITAL, the Council of Asian Pacific
Islanders Together for Advocacy and Leadership, to set up a technologically advanced CAPITAL
website. The website is now found, with less software but more substantive content, at
www.sactocapital.org.
Each spring, the Foundation puts on a Wine Tasting and Silent Auction, and each fall it
helps with the ABAS Invitational Golf Tournament. These fund its major expenditure:
scholarships to nurture future lawyers who show promise of being active and giving back
to the community.
The Foundation Board of Directors consists of:
Officers:
Yoshinori H. T. Himel, President
(916) 554-2760
yhimel@pobox.com
yoshinori.himel-at-usdoj.gov*
Henry D. Nanjo, Secretary
(916) 376-5113
hdnanjo-at-comcast.net*
Jerilyn Paik, CFO/Treasurer
(916) 568-1222
jeri-at-jplawoffice.com*
Board Members:
Janice Lai
(916) 444-1000
jlai-at-downeybrand.com*
Mona Tawatao
(916) 551-2184
mtawatao-at-lsnc.net*
Darrel "H" Woo
(916) 492-3556
darrelwoo-at-gmail.com*
Michael K. Iwahiro
(916) 444-3900
miwahiro-at-mhalaw.com*
*To use these email addresses you must insert an "@" sign in place of "-at-". The change
is to frustrate those who use web-crawling software to harvest email addresses as targets
for spam.
2007-2008 ABAS Law Foundation Scholarship Application is now
available for download!
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Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento
P.O. Box 2215
Metro Station
Sacramento, CA 95812-2215
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