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Focus Areas Our range of work is guided by the outcomes we seek, with many of our efforts overlapping and converging across multiple focus areas. Good decisions emerge from responsive and effective governance. We believe a strong democracy requires citizen engagement and government transparency and accountability. Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest. The Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest. The Democracy Fund’s Governance Initiative. And civil society to support good governance initia...
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A SINGLE PERSON CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE – Hawaii Quality of Life
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Hawaii Quality of Life. LEVERAGE POINTS Q&A. Environment & Energy. Housing & Communities. A SINGLE PERSON CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. Deborah Spencer-Chun never gave up on Mo Maumalanga, from middle school through his darkest days in prison. Today, it is Mo who is saving kids from the bad choices that ruin their lives. Everyone calls him Mo, this muscular, tough-looking social worker who is respected by the teens and tweens he works with and by their parents. Hate I see it in the kids I work with and it’s like l...
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A USEFUL WAY TO UNDERSTAND HAWAII – Hawaii Quality of Life
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Hawaii Quality of Life. LEVERAGE POINTS Q&A. Environment & Energy. Housing & Communities. A USEFUL WAY TO UNDERSTAND HAWAII. Systems maps are a credible starting point for a conversation about improving our quality of life. Influencing a single key factor can have a major effect on an entire system. The maps were started during discussions with a variety of contributors and then refined using interviews with them and other Hawaii residents. The final maps were created by Robert Ricigliano, a veteran ...
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INTERVENTION AT A CRUCIAL MOMENT – Hawaii Quality of Life
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Hawaii Quality of Life. LEVERAGE POINTS Q&A. Environment & Energy. Housing & Communities. INTERVENTION AT A CRUCIAL MOMENT. Po Kivaha was the intended victim when his buddy was shot and blinded in one eye. But a team of social workers defused an imminent gang war and offered him a way out. My friend was shot. I was the target and they missed. I felt the shotgun pellets go right past me. Kivaha won that first fight. The other boy fell to the ground and stayed there. They came up with a plan: That the best...
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HOUSING: HAWAII’S WEAK POINT – Hawaii Quality of Life
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Hawaii Quality of Life. LEVERAGE POINTS Q&A. Environment & Energy. Housing & Communities. HOUSING: HAWAII’S WEAK POINT. Hawaii housing costs are among the highest in the nation. All the measures listed in the chart below were already bad in 2009 and got worse since then. Crime down but…. Property and drug-related crime still worse than national average. A bleak snapshot of life on the street. About 28 percent of homeless individuals are Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian. 27 percent have some college education.
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GIVING HOPE AND ALTERNATIVES TO KIDS – Hawaii Quality of Life
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Hawaii Quality of Life. LEVERAGE POINTS Q&A. Environment & Energy. Housing & Communities. GIVING HOPE AND ALTERNATIVES TO KIDS. The philosophy of Adult Friends for Youth is that even the toughest kids can change. Just make sure you’re there to help when they choose to change. Deborah Spencer-Chun has the deep-seated belief. That Kids can change no matter what level of trouble they get into. We don’t believe in changing just one life, but in changing a group. Then you can change many lives. We don’t decid...
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SUB MAPS – Hawaii Quality of Life
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Hawaii Quality of Life. LEVERAGE POINTS Q&A. Environment & Energy. Housing & Communities. This systems map provides an integrated view of the loops that reinforce each other within the local economy. Click here to open a full screen version of the map in a new tab. Understanding how public policy is made in Hawaii. Click on any of the loops (start with the “R15” loop: Trust in Government) to learn more and explore the map. Click here to open a full screen version of the map in a new tab.
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Hawaii’s Overall Economy – Hawaii Quality of Life
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Hawaii Quality of Life. LEVERAGE POINTS Q&A. Environment & Energy. Housing & Communities. Hawaii has the highest overall cost of living in the country and the highest housing costs. Here are key statistics, both good and bad. Since the official end of the recession in 2009, Hawaii’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has been consistently 2 to 3 percentage points lower than the national rate. This systems map provides an integrated view of the loops that reinforce each other within the local economy.
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Q&A: LEVERAGE POINTS IN HAWAII – Hawaii Quality of Life
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Hawaii Quality of Life. LEVERAGE POINTS Q&A. Environment & Energy. Housing & Communities. Q&A: LEVERAGE POINTS IN HAWAII. Why go through all the trouble of doing a systems map? So, did you find those points of leverage in the Hawaii systems maps? Yes Remember that a systems map is a hypothesis or an educated guess about how things work, so the conclusions we make based on that map are also educated guesses. That said, I think there are some clear messages from the maps. By compensating for the growing ga...
