Every dojo offers moments beyond the mat. This includes seminars in other cities, research trips, or the translation of manuscripts. The JMAC Foundation supports those moments and provides various forms of help to students, instructors, and researchers advancing in the world of traditional martial arts.
As a nonprofit in Ann Arbor that serves as a platform for local martial artists, the Foundation offers a range of support. Each type is based on individual students’ needs.
Travel Assistance for Students
Seminars and intensives often require travel.
This might mean venturing across the state and, at other times, much further. When costs or distance prevent a student from attending a valuable training opportunity, the Foundation helps bridge that gap.
Support for Instructors and Organizers
Bringing a respected teacher into a community takes planning, coordination, and funding.
The Foundation supports instructors and event organizers, so students can learn directly from experienced teachers.
Research, Writing, and Translation Grants
The knowledge we have of Japanese Martial arts was preserved and spread because someone took the time to accurately document it.
Grants for research, writing, and translation help preserve techniques, histories, and philosophies that could dissolve with just one generation.
Preservation Projects
Some traditions survive in archives, aging manuscripts, or the memory of a single teacher.
The Foundation supports projects focused on preserving knowledge from those before us.
Continuity Over Expansion
The Foundation is a nonprofit in Ann Arbor shaped by its own martial arts community.
It operates with the same restraint that has influenced that community from the start: continuity over growth, stewardship over recognition.
Arrange Your Donation
Support the JMAC Foundation's mission of preservation and education. As a nonprofit in Ann Arbor devoted to protecting these traditions, we rely on every contribution to keep teaching, training, and research available to future practitioners.
Contact the Foundation to learn more or make a tax-deductible gift.