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The Ohana Foundation Needs Help to Spread the Word:

The Ohana Foundation is reaching out to Hualalai Club members to encourage homeowners to help spread the word and tell their employees, contractors and service providers about the deadlines for the following programs and scholarships. Mahalo.

 

 

 

 

 

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Pick Up Your Gift Bag!

🌸🌸🌸The Hualalai Ohana Foundation Board of Directors wants to extend wishes of health and well-being to every homeowner family during this high occupancy season.🌸🌸🌸 2020 proved to be a hugely challenging year on many fronts and we just want to spread a little joy and ❤️ and give you reason to smile. If you […]

Hualalai Ohana Foundation Gift Bag!

🌸🌸🌸The Hualalai Ohana Foundation Board of Directors wants to extend wishes of health and well-being to every homeowner family during this high occupancy season.🌸🌸🌸 2020 proved to be a hugely challenging year on many fronts and we just want to spread a little joy and ❤️ and give you reason to smile. If you […]

Hualalai Ohana Foundation Gift to Homeowners

🌸🌸🌸The Hualalai Ohana Foundation Board of Directors wants to extend wishes of health and well-being to every homeowner family during this high occupancy season.🌸🌸🌸 2020 proved to be a hugely challenging year on many fronts and we just want to spread a little joy and ❤️ and give you reason to smile. If you […]

Hualalai Ohana Foundation: What a Year!

2020 has been a challenge for everyone. For the hundreds of Hualalai employees that were furloughed in March, the challenges have been life altering. From the beginning of the pandemic the Hualalai Ohana Foundation went to work to help families here survive and thrive.

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Hualalai Ohana Foundation: Creating Change For Good

In the Club Update, if you go to the Ohana Foundation portal you can see three thank you letters received from employees helped by Foundation programs. The first letter is from an employee helped by the Foundation’s medical award programs. This employee spent a long time writing this […]

Ohana Foundation’s Annual Report

Presented by Nico Leilani Verissimo, Executive Director of the Hualalai Ohana Foundation

(Click on image to enlarge it.)

June 17: Ohana Kokua Kit Drive-Thru Two

The second Hualalai ‘Ohana Foundation ‘Ohana Kokua Kit Drive Thru will be on June 17 from 9AM to noon. Two hundred thirty-three kits will be distributed at the Hualalai Ohana Foundation Driveway. Come share your aloha with the employees!

 

 

Tiffany’s Art Agency Donating to Ohana Foundation

A Note From Tiffany DeEtte Shafto:

In an effort to support our Island community in these interesting times, I’m donating 10% of art purchases made by Hualalai Members to the Hualalai Ohana Foundation for the duration of the resort closure. While I’ve been donating 10% of the purchases made from our shows at Hualalai Realty, […]

Click Now To See Mahalo Notes

Sorry, dear readers,

If you clicked on yesterday’s post, nothing happened. No notes. Your editor admits to being technologically impaired. Hope this one works. 😁🤓

 

The Ohana Foundation Invites You to Read Wonderful Notes of Mahalo.

 

CLICK HERE TO ENJOY!

It melts my heart knowing how much you all care. As I […]

The Spirit of Ohana Means More Now Than Ever

 

 

A Note from Nico Leilani Verissimo Executive Director, Hualalai ‘Ohana Foundation

Thank you to each and every one of the 77 Hualalai members who collectively contributed to the Hualalai Crisis Response Fund appeal for support, raising $350,000 in just a few short weeks. We reached out to furloughed employees to ask them […]

Ohana Foundation Kokua Kits Distribution

The spirit of Aloha is alive and well.

Hualalai furloughed employees received their Kokua kits on May 1, expressing their gratitude as they came through the drive-thru distribution center. Thanks, Hans Riddervold and Bill McDowell, for the photos that give us an idea of what took place. Thanks to all […]

Hualalai Ohana Foundation Crisis Response Fund

The Hualalai Ohana Foundation launched a fund on March 27 to raise money to support furloughed Hualalai employees facing urgent financial situations. See HualalaiOhanaFoundation.org/crisis-response-fund.

On April 2, an employee survey was sent out to 700 furloughed employees to better understand their needs. Most responses were from full time employees who have worked here for over […]

We’re in this together…We’re an ohana.

 

photo by Bill McDowell

 

Ohana Foundation Rounders: A Classic!

The Hualalai Ohana Foundation’s Rounders Classic was a huge success. Everyone had fun while raising funds to help the wonderful employees on the Hualalai campus.

Bill McDowell captured two outstanding board members of the Ohana Foundation that make everything work so well.

 

 

 

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Ohana Foundation: Rounders Classic, March 9

Tired of stumbling to your golf cart in the dark? Or if you already have, need some ointment and bandaids handy? Join in the fun of the Hualalai Rounders Classic on Monday and you’ll find plenty of useful items in your swag bag. Not only can you contribute to the Ohana Foundation to help employees […]

Hualalai Rounders Classic: March 9

Having trouble locating HAND SANITIZERs? Come join the Hualalai Rounders Classic this Monday, March 9. Swag bags include hand sanitizer and other useful stuff!

Rounders Classic: March 9

The second annual Rounders Classic will be held March 9. It was a great event last year! Save the date!

‘Ohana Foundation Sale: April 10

TIME TO DONATE GENTLY USED ITEMS!

Giving Tuesday: Hualalai Ohana Foundation