- Andrew Aoki and James Koshiba
Nonprofit people in the news
Aoki and Koshiba leave 3Point Consulting to lead Kanu Hawaii
Five years ago, Andrew Aoki and James Koshiba created 3Point, a consulting firm that specialized in serving the public interest and adhered to a social mission. Although 3Point has succeeded, Aoki and Koshiba wanted to put their energies and skills toward ensure a brighter future for Hawai'i. “With this as our motive,” they write, “we have decided to change course and become full time employees of a new nonprofit organization called Kanu Hawai'i as of July 16.”
The 3Point cofounders say they are not sure what will happen to that organization. “We realize that there is great demand for public-minded consulting and we are considering how 3Point might carry on without our regular involvement.” They have, however, pledged to fulfill all their current 3Point commitments through 2007, but from mid-July they will be working full-time at Kanu, a new nonprofit that recently received a three-year commitment from the Omidyar Family Fund at the Hawai'i Community Foundation.
“This investment along with other support will allow Kanu to develop into a social movement that we hope will help shape a positive future for Hawai‘i,” they said. Kanu will do three things: Build networks of residents who will make firm commitments to positively impact Hawaii; encourage businesses to be more socially responsible and to exert positive public leadership; and develop and advance a public policy agenda that addresses big issues in Hawai'i.
“We still hope to be conducting research, writing papers, presenting ideas, advocating for social change, looking for ways to help your important missions, trying to bring communities together and doing many of the other things we have been doing outside of our consulting work over the past five years – only now, we will dedicate ourselves full-time to those efforts,” they said. For the time being, you can still contact Aoki and Koshiba at their old email addresses: andrew@3pointconsulting.com and james@3pointconsulting.com.
- Meredith Ching
Meredith Ching promoted at Alexander & Baldwin
Meredith Ching, vice president for government and community relations at Alexander & Baldwin Inc., becomes a senior vice president of the company on June 30. Ching is on the board of the Hawaii Nature Center, Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, YMCA and Kapiolani Health Foundation. She is also president and a director of the A&B Foundation, sits on the state Commission on Water Resource Management and is a past member of the state Board of Agriculture. Alexander & Baldwin said Ching will retain all her current duties. She was a financial analyst for Dillingham Corp. when she joined A&B in 1982. Six years later she was promoted to vice president for corporate natural resources.
Damien Memorial School names interim CEO
Bernard Ho, a former HMSA executive, was named interim president and CEO of Damien Memorial School, replacing Brother Greg O'Donnell, who has retired in June after serving as head of the school since 1997, first as school principal and since 2000 as president and CEO. Ho was chair of Damien's school board from 2002 to 2006 and worked at HMSA for almost 40 years where he was executive vice president from 1994 to 2005.
Aloha United Way names new marketing and communications VP
Jody Shiroma Perreira has been named vice president of marketing and communications at Aloha United Way. She previously owned her own marketing and communications company, Skyward Communications, and she is co-owner and editor in chief of Sassy and G magazines.
