The San Francisco Japantown Foundation is now accepting applications for its second round of grants. Grants will be up to $5,000 and provided to nonprofit groups with cultural, community and educational activities that the Foundation determines best promotes and supports San Francisco’s Japantown.

George Tanaka will present a large donation from Union Bank of California to the San Francisco Japantown Foundation on Thursday, March 13, at 11 a.m. in the hospitality room of Union Bank's SF Japantown branch. The foundation board of directors will also announce details of a contest to help generate a new logo for the organization.

The board of the San Francisco Japantown Foundation on Feb. 25 welcomed new members June-Ko Nakagawa, executive director of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California, and Robert Hamaguchi, executive director of Japantown Task Force, Inc.