Civil Beat — West Maui’s economic recovery will take years and cost billions of dollars, federal, state and county officials said during a news conference on Thursday, after touring the site of a wildfire that destroyed the town of Lahaina.

Many Fellows possess a strong facilitation presence that serves their teams well. In this issue of Taking on Tomorrow, hear from four of them who regularly apply a variety of facilitation techniques to create the containers for crucial conversations in Hawaiʻi. Consider and commit to taking (at least) one of their great ideas and experiment with it in your own facilitation practice. We also warmly welcome AJ Halagao as our new president of the Hawaiʻi Leadership Forum.

Pacific Business News, Maui Now — The contest, launched in 2015, invites students in grades 3 through 12 to form teams of two to five members and submit business plan ideas to a panel of judges.

Civil Beat — Gov. Josh Green stopped senators from axing a tech agency board member; now small businesses must pay the price.

Nicole Velasco, Omidyar Fellow and business development lead for NORESCO shares how she prepares for facilitating groups and why its important to both have a planned agenda and be flexible when leading a convening.

Darcie Yukimura, Omidyar Fellow and vice president of philanthropy at Kupu offers three key learnings from her experience as a facilitator, and how facilitation-based approaches help her beyond the workplace.