Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 34, Number 2, 1 Pepeluali 2017 — Kaiser honored for investment in keiki [ARTICLE]

Kaiser honored for investment in keiki

Hawaiian Community Assets honored Kaiser Permanente at its annual Next Generation Investors Meeting in December, held to honor and update funders about HCA's youth financial education program. Last year, 12 public and private partners invested $271,853 into HCA's culturally-relevant and ageappropriate financial education curriculum for Hawai'i youth, allowing the nonprofit to serve 736 young people. "With $271 thousand in investments, HCA created the Kahua Waiwai Training Academy that provides 25 career training opportunities for Native Hawaiian youth annually, expanded the reach of its program to the Continental United States, and launched its financial education pilot for ehikken, ages 5 and under," said Jeff Gilbreath, HCA's executive director in a release. At the event, Kaiser Pennanente received the 2016 Next Generation Investors Award for its contribution to the long-term eeonomie selfsufficiency of Hawai'i keiki. Kaiser invested $17,250 to develop and print

a Kahua Waiwai curriculum aimed at ages 5 and under. That funding was matched with $20,000 from the First Nations Development Institute, according to HCA.B