Making an Impact

Created by Mark and Amanda Noguchi to address the current collapse of our restaurant industry and the growing need to provide nutritious meals to our community, Chef Hui is a statewide program aimed to help local farmers farming and chefs cooking and mitigate food insecurity by delivering nutritious ingredients and meals to communities in need.

This project aims to coordinate multiple community stakeholders in pursuit of a $5 million U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Public Works grant that would advance strategic objectives for the Kahuku community.

The project will develop comprehensive curriculum and cross-sector alliances that leverage the complex and diverse cultural strengths of our people to establish integrated violence prevention as the de facto standard in Hawaiʻi.

Digital Literacy is using virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) to diversify Hawaiʻi's economy and strengthen its workforce.

Drive Electric Hawai‘i (DEH) is a network led consortium of 16 public, private, and nonprofit signatories committed to building a broad coalition in support of this vision for renewable transportation; incenting and accelerating the deployment of EVs and an EV charging infrastructure that will support 100% renewable energy; and developing and deploying transactional and regulatory mechanisms that will enable the full value of electrified transportation.

Teams and partners within the Early Childhood Action Strategy (ECAS) network have shifted priorities to focus on four areas during the next few months: 1) Family Violence Prevention, 2) Prenatal Access, 3) Child Care Support, and 4) Weekly Resource Updates.