“I count myself in that number of youth who were at-risk during high school,” admits Jay Jarman, 73, founder and executive director of Common Grace, a youth-mentoring nonprofit. “I’d say I was lonely as a child and needed a caring, mature person to guide me. “Luckily, a mentor from a youth organization befriended me.” Common Grace pairs caring adult volunteers…
CHANGES AT THE TOP Hawaiian Airlines’ parent has risen to No. 2 on the Top 250 and a new company debuts at No. 7. The first few spots in the Top 250 list of Hawaii’s biggest companies and nonprofits rarely change much from year to year – but they did last year and again this year. Last year, HMSA secured…
NAME: Cari Ann Leong AGE: 32 JOB: Owner, Ice Cream Dreamz, an ice cream/gelato truck, and full-time hairstylist START: “It’s a family-run truck,” the Sacred Hearts graduate and Kaimuki resident explains. “We started it about three years ago. It was my lifetime dream to have an ice cream truck, as I have a passion for ice cream. “The hard work…
When translated from Hawaiian, the word aio is defined as “a wave that rises and falls without breaking.” But if you ask aio Hawaii founder Duane Kurisu what it means, he’ll tell you that “aio is about discovering who we are and the promise of what we can be.” That principle has long guided aio Hawaii, which is composed of…
Test Images From left to right: Daniel Ikaika Ito, Thomas Obungen, Jade Snow and Kamea Hadar. All photos: David Croxford “A digital media strategy is not something that you should be afraid of,” said Thomas Obungen, digital and social media strategist for Upspring Media and associate editor of Frolic Hawaii. But it is essential, he added. “Every business should have…
Hawaii news now General Manager Rick Blangiardi and News Director Scott Humber are the leaders of local TV’s most watched news stations, but they also operate the state’s most popular digital news platform. Blangiardi says that, on a busy news week, HNN digital platforms, including desktop website, mobile website (WAP) and News App, get more than 18.75 million page views…
“This is about the past, the present and … the future,” said Chris Hause, VP of marketing, sales and business development at Kaiser Permanente. “Tonight we are united by a cause of creating a bright future for all of Hawaii. We come together to share our perspectives for leadership, innovation and change. Change isn’t always easy or comfortable. But it…
A diverse group of young leaders wrote first-draft visions on nine key issues. They want your feedback. OVERALL VISION O ke Aloha Ko Kakou Piko a me Ko Kakou Alakai i Pono (o) Hawaii a i Pono ke Ao Nei. (Aloha is in Our Hearts and Our Way to a Better Hawaii and to a Better World.) THE GENESIS…
When General Motors wanted to learn what car models would sell in the Chinese market, they turned to the Honolulu-based OmniTrak Group to get inside consumers’ minds. The insight OmniTrak provided, dubbed “The Goldilocks Strategy,” helped the North American automaker write a Chinese success story. This is just one example of the research company’s impressive capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region,…