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About the Foundation |
"A Commitment to Truth, to Remembering for All Time, and to Healing."We are the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, and that is our credo.
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established to memorialize and educate the public about the significance of the historical events surrounding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II within the broader context of American history, but especially relating to the internment of Japanese Americans at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center near Powell, Wyoming. HMWF collects, preserves, exhibits, publishes and makes available materials of a historical character and interest. HMWF collaborates with other groups and individuals with similar aims and carries on other activities of a historical and educational nature. HMWF was formed in 1996 as a Wyoming public non-profit corporation and obtained its federal 501(c) (3) status in 1997. We are governed by a 14-member Board of Directors living from California to Maryland. The HMWF Board has an Executive Committee, composed of the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and one additional board member elected by the Board. The Board meets quarterly with an Annual Meeting in February. HMWF's Board and Executive Committee members are all volunteers. All Board and Executive Committee members pay their own expenses to all HMWF meetings and functions. HMWF receives advice from its 16-member Advisory Board, a majority of whom are former internees. HMWF has maintained a membership of nearly 500 persons throughout the United States, Japan and Mexico, for a period of ten years. Two-thirds of these members are Japanese Americans. HMWF publishes its newsletter, Kokoro Kara ("From our heart"), two to three times per year to a mailing list of approximately 2,800 households. From this page you can:
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