How are you coping amid the COVID-19 crisis? Our primary focus during this time is continuing to provide critical financial services to our members, while protecting the health and safety of both our members and employees. We’ve done this a…

What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Our first priority has been to support our clients through the maze of changes related to HR and to help them obtain PPP funding offered through the SBA. This COVID-19 time…

What has been your Punalu‘u Bake Shop’s latest pivot or innovation? Our Company’s latest innovation has been pretty much the same as most companies that are still operating today: educate and implement policies and procedures to help prevent the spread…

How are you coping amid the COVID-19 crisis? We are trying to stay strong. The restaurant industry has been pretty hard hit. We have over 200 locations in 15 states, all of which have had to close their dining rooms.…

How has HANO been able to continue its core mission(s)? Our mission is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector as a collective force to improve the quality of life in Hawai‘i. In the context of COVID-19, we continue to…

What has been your nonprofit’s latest pivot or innovation? At IHS, our purpose has always been to get people off the streets and expedited to housing. Yet in this crisis, we need those who are unsheltered to stay put. Instead…

Experienced and diverse boards of directors should be playing crucial roles now for local companies of every size – from the biggest Top 250 corporations to the smallest family-owned firms. Every board’s normal oversight functions are complicated by how the pandemic…

Lanning is the SBA’s State of Hawai‘i Small Business Person of the Year for 2020 What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Our latest pivots have been a second…