Our Partners

The Fund for People in Parks was established in 2014 to provide financial assistance and professional services to complete inspirational projects that enhance the visitor experience in western National Parks. The Fund worked closely with park staff at Tule Lake National Monument to bring private philanthropic support to a project that might not otherwise be funded.

The Fund provided a grant that allowed Tule Lake to open our first on-site visitor center. Funding helped complete needed maintenance and accessability work at the visitor center. Without this grant the Tule Lake Visitor Center would not have been able to open in June 2022.

 

The left image shows the Tule Lake Visitor Center almost finished on the outside. However, the inside still had work that needed to be done, including renovating the entrance so that visitors can enter safely. 

The right image shows the visitor center after a concrete deck, wheelchair-accessible ramp, and new stairs were added to make it safe to enter the building. More work is still in progress including a concrete sidewalk, a permanent accessibility parking space, and a park entrance sign along the highway. All of these additions were made possible by a Fund for People in Parks grant.   

 

Funding for this website was provided by a grant from the California State Library through the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program. About the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program: The CCLPEP was established in 1998 by legislation introduced by then–Assemblyman Mike Honda of San Jose, and administered by the California State Library. The goal of the program is to help develop educational materials that will ensure that the forced mass incarceration of persons of Japanese ancestry will not be forgotten. Assemblyman George Nakano of Torrance introduced legislation that extended the program funding and established it as a State Library program.

 

Tule Lake Committee

The Tule Lake Committee was organized to ensure that the unjust wartime incarceration of persons of Japanese ancestry would not happen to another group, and, to that end, has worked to preserve the Segregation Center Site and its resources for future generations. Since 1974, the Committee has organized multiple pilgrimages to educate participants and the public at large. The Tule Lake Committee accepts donations to assist some attendees with scholarships. Learn more at their website.