The bank’s Aloha For Hawaii program supports local restaurants and nine local nonprofits, including Blood Bank of Hawaii, Child & Family Service and food banks statewide First Hawaiian Bank has now made it easy to support local restaurants and local…

We are continuing to publish stories researched and written before the COVID-19 crisis, such as this one. We want to feel someone really hears us, and that they get what’s going on,” says Darcy Ing, a part-time clinical psychologist for…

How are you coping amid the COVID-19 crisis? Right now, I give myself grace and practice understanding. We are navigating unchartered waters with this global pandemic, and new updates come in throughout the day. This means decision making is challenging,…

Blood from babies’ umbilical cords at birth can be used instead of bone marrow transplants to save the lives of patients with diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma and sickle cell anemia. And the cord blood does not need to match…

Siletha Hubbard moved to Hawai‘i from North Carolina in 2014 to be closer to her daughter. Two years later the monthly rent on her Waikīkī apartment was raised by $400. “I’m just living on Social Security. I have no pension,”…

Kiley Adolpho, 39, says she tried for years to become a carpenter, but found there was a lot of competition and the field was male-dominated. “I tried to apply for part-time jobs, or full-time jobs when I was between jobs,…

Nonprofit’s programs for high school students reflect Hawai‘i’s diversity The Center for Tomorrow’s Leaders looks for high school students who don’t fit the leadership stereotypes. Executive Director Katie Chang says CTL empowers “nontraditional” leaders who are often less likely to…

Laureen Kukino, 56, is legally blind in her right eye and has only a quarter of her vision remaining in her left eye. The retired Family Court bailiff lost her sight in an accident involving children and a stray volleyball…