Category: Media
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Honolulu Star Advertiser, Letter to the Editor: Improving government funding for organizations
Recent articles in local publications have spotlighted the existential challenges many organizations face due to gaps in government contract funding. As a member of the Hawaii True Cost Coalition, I know this challenge isn’t unique to Easterseals Hawaii (ESH); it is an issue confronting human service, community-based organizations statewide.
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Civil Beat Community Voice: “Hawaii’s Nonprofits Struggle To Provide Critical Services”
“Despite the community’s growing needs, state contracts have been level for almost 10 years. The state isn’t funding our contracts at their true costs. In fact, at the height of the pandemic, when job loss and isolation were devastating Hawaii’s communities, the state reduced our contract amounts by 10%.”
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Honolulu Star Advertiser: “5 Questions: Tina Andrade, of Catholic Charities Hawaii”
How have the Maui wildfires altered the plans and goals of nonprofits such as yours? Our strategic goals remain the same–to continue providing services and advocacy for the most vulnerable in the community.
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Maui Now & Maui News Op-Ed: “Strengthening Our Community – Unveiling the True Cost of Nonprofit Support”
“The ultimate mission of The True Cost Coalition is to guarantee that we effectively address the community’s needs. An underfunded response will have lasting impacts.”
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Honolulu Star Advertiser, Letter to the Editor: Help community-based aid groups with funding
“AZ’s closure is a call to action, and I hope our government leaders answer it — before the cost of inaction becomes a price too high for Hawaii and our people to recover from.”
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Letter to the Editor: “Government does not meet costs of programs”
“CBOs save lives, yet if the funding does not increase, staff positions will not be filled, programs may end, but worse, lives may be lost.”
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Island Voices: “Meet true costs of nonprofit service”
“While public attention is rightly focused on the needs of our state’s displaced Lahaina residents, a troubling funding situation is unfolding that impacts the very heart of Hawaii’s myriad public services.”
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Pacific Business News: “Nonprofit Roundtable: Protectors of Hawaii’s future”
“What I’m worried about in the social services sector, in particular, is if these contracts don’t go up, you will see a cutback of services and that’s going to play a big role in terms of how our community responds to some of these issues and what our future will look like down the road,”…
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The Conversation on Hawaiʻi Public Radio: “Nonprofits Face Financial Crisis”
A roundtable talk with Karen Tan, President and CEO of Child & Family Service; Ryan Kusumoto, President and CEO of Parents and Children Together; and Laurie Tochiki, Executive Director of EPIC ʻOhana.
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Insights on PBS Hawaiʻi: “Helping the Helpers”
“Nonprofits help everyone from keiki to kūpuna in everything from healthcare to childcare, to providing shelter, putting food on the table or simply sharing a hot meal. But rising costs including wages and persistent calls for help from the community, continue to be a challenge for many of these organizations, making it difficult for them…