CPC Principal Affiliates |
The Community Partnership Center Foundation coordinates its program services through its service outreach organization, the Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation (HESF), which focuses its service outreach through both a conceptual, as well as an organizational framework that involves bringing together four critical constituencies:
The involvement of those four constituencies is essential to enabling communities to empower themselves through:
Three principal CPC Foundation strategic affiliates showcase those four characteristics of community empowerment:
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Ala Wai Watershed Association |
The Ala Wai Watershed Association, Inc. (“AWWA”) is a registered Hawaii community-based, environmentally-focused nonprofit organization whose mission statement is: “E malama kakou I ka wai mai uka a ke kai” – “Let us all come together to care for the waters that flow from the mountains to the sea.” AWWA has played a key role in engaging a diversity of stakeholders to that end. Nearly a hundred entities, including those from local, state and federal government agencies, civil society, private industry and academia (including K-12 schools) have been involved in some capacity in addressing issues surrounding the Ala Wai Watershed. AWWA works to coordinate the interaction required to successfully address a challenge of this scale and be successful in achieving the targeted goals and objectives to restore a degraded watershed to what was once a pristine water way and productive wetland. Its mission is critical to facilitating the communication and coordination among the broad spectrum of stakeholders that addresses everyone’s equities, key roles and concerns required to confront this shared environmental risk.
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Uhane Pōhaku Na Moku O Hawaii |
Uhane Pōhaku Na Moku O Hawaii, Inc. (“Uhane”) is a registered Hawaii nonprofit social services organization that engages youth and community members in cultural restoration and preservation of Hawaii’s natural resources. Uhane emphasizes programs that contribute to the development of positive identity and socialization skills in youth, and provides outreach to school leavers, as well as those at risk of early school leaving. Special emphasis is on Hawaiian values which interconnect the social, cultural, material, economic, physical, emotional and educational domains to impact all generations’ capacity to develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to succeed in living a high quality of life. Uhane’s holistic approach incorporates a programmatic design which interconnects the land, its people, and the cultural values for long-term stewardship of the entire community milieu. It involves learning life skills, physical health and wellness in an outdoor environment with hands-on learning experiences. Uhane has adopted its project-based and place-based design with strong community support, both public and private, to further develop long term support for the conceptual model of well-being (social and cultural; material and economic; physical; emotional; and educational domains).
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North Shore EVP |
North Shore EVP (NSEVP), an Economic Vitality Partnership, is a registered Hawaii nonprofit regional economic development organization formed to improve communication, networking and civic and civil engagement across the communities of the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, in order to promote community-driven solutions that integrate both traditional strengths in agriculture, manufacturing and hospitality. The North Shore Food Hub actively manages the aggregation, distribution and marketing of food products from local and regional producers to strengthen their ability to satisfy wholesale, retail, and institutional demand, expanding the scope of a food hub to include agri-tourism activities and services to the community. The Food Hub and associated Learning Center was conceived by the community to address social, economic, and environmental issues surrounding the growth of diversified agriculture. By linking to agriculture, tourism becomes a strong partner in the region’s effort to preserve ag land and open spaces and move towards becoming a world-class food destination. By providing the supply chain infrastructure needed by small farmers, the Food Hub and Learning Center becomes a catalyst for entrepreneurship and job growth in both of these economic sectors. NSEVP has been instrumental in bringing these program components together, enhancing community empowerment to ensure their ability to maintain local control of their livelihoods and life ways.
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HESF Academic and NGO Affiliates |
HESF conducts ongoing outreach to similarly missioned organizations to establish strategic relationships that enable the CPC Foundation, through those relationships, to offer an ever expanding range of services that promote a community-based, trans-disciplinary systems approach to addressing community stakeholder needs.
This network began with these research, service, and academic units at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
HESF has extended the outreach of the CPC Foundation to other educational institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that share the community resilience and empowerment mission.
Enterprise Honolulu enterprisehonolulu.com |