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The Pakele Foundation
is a Hawai`i-based 501c (3) nonprofit organization.
The Foundation helps Native Hawaiian youth and cultural
practitioners in our community gain experience and
training in technology and economic development.
Successful Native Hawaiian, and minority-owned business
leaders, designed it to offer them unique opportunities.
These leaders and business people wanted to use
their experience and talents to provide support
for “shovel ready” projects that could keep our
Native Hawaiian youth engaged in healthy and productive
activities.
The Pakele Foundation was created to help our youth become successful business people in Hawai`i. It
provide wholly unique opportunity to both support
Hawai`i’s cultural knowledge -- and serve as a successful
economic development model – since this program
would involve successful Native Hawaiians teaching
Native Hawaiians and others interested in the culture.
To be successful in the current – and future --
economies, the effective/efficient use of technology
and new media will be vital.
The Pakele Foundation’s cultural philosophy is based
on the founders’ experiences in which successful
kūpuna taught many of today’s most successful artists
the skills they needed to succeed. The Foundation
will use that cultural model to expand, formalize
and institutionalize those cultural learning practices.
This will enable youth -- who struggle to learn
and perpetuate the Native Hawaiian culture’s most
valuable skills and knowledge – to learn the business
and technology skills necessary to be successful
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| The Pakele Foundation
wishes the Happiest Holidays and All
the best to you and your `ohana. Here's
to a wonderful 2011! |
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