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After my wife and I moved to Maui, our marriage fell apart. Divorce left me devastated, so I left the island. When I returned, Maui healed me.
Family Promise (formerly National Interfaith Hospitality Network) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, founded by Karen Olson in 1988. Family Promise [1] primarily serves families with children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, with the mission of "help[ing] homeless and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community-based ...
Dwight Baldwin (September 29, 1798 – January 3, 1886) [1] was an American Christian missionary and medical doctor on Maui, one of the Hawaiian Islands, during the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was patriarch of a family that founded some of the largest businesses in the islands.
The success of the first Networks led other congregations to seek help in developing similar programs. In 1988 it became a national nonprofit organization, the National Interfaith Hospitality Network. In 2003, its name changed to Family Promise.[3][4] Olson retired from leadership of Family Promise in January 2016, remaining as president emeritus.
Nov. 4—As Family Promise of the Palouse celebrates its 10-year anniversary this week, the nonprofit is embarking on a plan to provide transitional housing for families in Moscow and Pullman. "It ...
Maui's ultraregulated land use regime (which was slow to approve projects and issue permits even before the disaster) isn't helping. As I wrote: Permit fees can add tens of thousands of dollars to ...
Upon David Baldwin's retirement from teaching in 1903, the Baldwin brothers (David and Henry) invested in the first commercial cultivation of pineapple on Maui. [9] Three years later, Belle Dickey, who was the niece of both a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law of Baldwin, married James Dole, who popularized Hawaiian pineapple.
A recent donation of $350,000 brought the company's total to $1 million to help with relief efforts following the August wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii.