Category: Media
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Civil Beat Editorial Board Interview: “Leaders Of Hawaii Community-Based Organizations”
The Civil Beat Editorial Board spoke with Nanci Kreidman, Lisa Maruyama, and En Young. Fifty of us who began this conversation maybe last January or February, recognizing that the cost of doing business has been increasing and our contracts don’t keep pace with the cost of doing business. So health insurance goes up, electricity goes…
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Civil Beat Community Voice: “Government Support For Nonprofits Only Goes So Far”
“The reality is that all levels of government — federal, state, and county — employ funding methods that strain a nonprofit’s finances and very survival. Government contracts, including those using the cost-reimbursement method, require community-based organizations to provide the service in advance of getting paid.”
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Pacific Business News: “Hawaiʻi nonprofits feel the pinch to fill in financial pukas”
“…as Pacific Business News learned when it recently gathered five industry leaders virtually for its annual Nonprofit Roundtable, there’s an ongoing issue that has plagued the partnership between administrations and service providers for decades: inadequate funding.”