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Year in Review Infographic

The end of the year is a great time for reflection and gratitude, and this article features a little bit of both!

We’ve been in business for two full years now, and it’s exciting to see that we’re still growing in so many ways as a business, and we’re continually grateful for the support from the community and the members. We’ll be expanding our physical space and opening our Hawaii Kai office space in March or April, and we plan to continue with great programming – click here to see the upcoming events that will kick off the New Year.

We look forward to continued expansion of our mission, which is to help inspire, connect and enable people to do well, and do good. Over the past year we have seen growth in almost all areas of business. We have compiled some of the most interesting stats in the infographic below👇🏽

 

Take a Peek at Your Member Benefits & Discounts

Once you walk in the doors at Impact Hub HNL, the tangible benefits of your membership are clear: it’s a creative place to work where you can connect (or not) with great people, jump on super fast wifi and drink complimentary organic coffee and tea.

You can see the full list of great amenities that come with your membership here. And we’ve just added a new, super fun option: our new, free bike borrow program. Check in with our Host to grab a bike to run a quick errand or take a leisurely ride to the park.

We’ve recently partnered with Oahu Fresh, one of Oahu’s longest-running vegetable delivery service (also called a CSA). So, you can order weekly veggies and have them delivered to you at work for easy dinners.

Impact Hub Honolulu is associated with the largest global network of social entrepreneurs. So, as a member of Impact Hub HNL, you also have access to the global network of Impact Hubs with our Global Passport. This gives you up to 3 days of access to Impact Hub locations around the world.

But wait, there’s MORE! We’ve partnered with local businesses for great discounts on local products and services. Some of the newest additions to our list of Member Discounts include:

  • The Creative Co.: A creative agency that offers websites, photography/videography, and more. Members can get a free website audit, and can take 10% off of any service proposal.
  • Pono Home Essentials, a line of zero-waste body care products; members get 5% off with discount code HUBHNL.
  • Still & Moving Center, a yoga and community space just two minutes away from our front door on Queen Street, a gorgeous studio offering yoga, dance, meditation, aerial, and more. Members get 10% off class packs (excluding aerial).

Other Member Discounts available from Consolidated Theatres (the movie theatre across the street), Pono Home, Citywide Home Loans, Lyft, Honolulu Tool Library, American Savings Bank, and more. See all your Member Discounts here.

If you’d like to add your business to our growing Member Discounts list and get your name in front of our hundreds of members and community, contact us and let us know.

Member Spotlight: Christine Mai‘i Sakuda of Transform Hawaii Government

Our ongoing series of Member Spotlights highlights the great work that our members are doing across their fields in Hawaii. Christine Sakuda of Transform Hawaii Government (THG) is a local organization that seeks to improve and modernize the Hawaii state government.

You can learn more about the organization here:

THG has hosted multiple events here at Impact Hub HNL, and we look forward to hosting more of these interesting and progressive events about how to improve our government from the ground up! Follow our Facebook events page to keep up to date.

I chatted with Christine over email and asked her to tell me more about the work that THG is doing, and why it’s so important.

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Andrea B (AB): Can you tell me a little bit more about Transform Hawaii Government?

Christine Sakuda (CS): Transform Hawaii Government (THG) advocates for modernization of state government services so that such services can be provided to the public, Hawaii businesses, and even government officials and employees themselves in an efficient, transparent, and meaningful way. Modernization also helps increase availability and access to electronic data, promoting data-based decision-making in shaping Hawaii’s future.

AB: Tell me a little bit more about you – how did this become your role/passion/career?

CS: I’ve been working in the technology transformation space since 1997, starting off in healthcare and recently transitioning to state government with THG. For 15 years, I’ve worked for non-profit organizations, being the first executive director for the most recent organizations: the Hawaii Health Information Exchange and THG. I do not have a formal education in technology but learned on the job, and believe that technology can be a powerful tool to help solve problems and deliver services.

AB: What are some of the biggest issues you see with our state government?

CS: State departments and agencies have traditionally focused on their own department goals in a decentralized manner. These departments matured during a time when technology was nascent, heavily customized, and not user-friendly. Since then, there have been huge advancements in technology that allows for more enterprise (statewide) planning and systems integration to occur; many of these advancements have brought data to the fingertips of mobile device users, but not yet to our government agencies. Citizens expect the state government to keep pace with these advancements and make best efforts to leverage new technologies to deliver services in more efficient and convenient ways.

AB: What can Hawaii citizens do to get more involved in government and transparency?

CS: THG encourages interested individuals to join the THG coalition through our website to stay informed on the state’s progress towards IT modernization as well as learn how to become more active, such as testifying in support of key legislation that advances these efforts.

AB: Can you tell me more about your events that you’ve hosted here?

CS: THG hosted a series of talk story sessions at Impact Hub Honolulu focused on key themes of state modernization: a state IT strategic plan, modernizing infrastructure, open data, cyber-security and more. Impact Hub HNL is an ideal, central venue to bring together subject matter experts and state leadership to discuss these topics to raise awareness of challenges and discuss opportunities for improvement potentially through public policy.

AB: What upcoming events can we look forward to in 2019?

CS: THG’s speaker series will be returning to Impact Hub HNL in the New Year. We are in the process of developing our 2019 calendar of events and will announce upcoming speaker series topics on our website and through our newsletter. We plan to raise our speaker series to the next level in 2019 by hosting more panel discussions that move these discussions forward. For more information on these events, including Facebook Live video of past presentations, visit our site and select “Events.”

Thanks, Christine, for taking the time to chat with us!

Impact Hub HNL Announces New Head Host, Andrea Bertoli

andrea bertoliWe are pleased to announce that Andrea Bertoli will be joining the Impact Hub HNL team as Head Host!

Andrea has been a member at Impact Hub since we started as the ProtoHub four years ago, and has been a full-time member and host since we opened our doors here in August. As Head Host, Andrea will be working daily to support both our members and our community. She will be helping with our social media, event planning and management, and member engagement.

Members and the community are encouraged to reach out to Andrea with questions about membership, renting event space, ongoing community events and planning, and any suggestions for making the Impact Hub HNL better than ever! You can reach her via email with questions or suggestions.

Andrea is a marketing and media professional focused on mission-driven businesses. She currently manages sales at CleanTechnica, the world’s largest cleantech news website. She has worked at startups, in small businesses, and as a freelancer, and brings years of marketing, event management, and community outreach skills to our team. She’s also a plant-based chef, author, and educator, and teaches monthly cooking classes, manages a wellness website, and is always in the kitchen making delicious foods – which you can peek on Instagram.