2023-02-18T21:59:10-07:00 2022-12-31 990 2022-01-01 320308897 PROJECT HAWAII INC PROJ 8089876018 PO Box 1844 Keaau HI 96749 Gina Greene Officer-Treasurer 8089876018 2023-02-17 1 1 11 1 AAL2 X 2022 2023-03-07 01:45:13Z Magin Patrick 16 320 Kehaulani St Keaau HI 96749 1368461 0 X www.HelptheHomelessKeiki.org X non profit 2010 HI Our mission is the enhance the lives of homeless and poverty stricken children, helping them to escape their cycle of poverty. We provide services year round on the islands of Hawai'i, O'ahu and Maui. Our agency is solely staffed 100% by volunteers and solely supported by public donations. Our team is dedicated to seeking out the hidden and forgotten unsheltered children across the islands to provide monthly care, holiday events, school support and summer educational programs. We also provide ongoing workshops that help the children develop with a healthier lifestyle, such as our mommy and me program, life skills training, employment readiness and leadership programs. We are opening a dormitory on Big Island for homeless girls to reside while attending college and our on site programs. 12 12 0 120 0 0 1593466 1368461 0 0 0 0 0 0 1593466 1368461 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1617150 1368461 1617150 1368461 -23684 0 0 295321 0 0 0 295321 Project Hawai'i, Inc., mission is to enhance the lives of homeless children and help them escape their cycle of poverty. Providing year round services to homeless and poverty stricken children on the islands of Hawai'i, Maui and O'ahu. Solely staffed by volunteers and supported by public donations, community partnerships, company donations and foundation grants. Providing year round interactive solutions to help these children gain self-esteem, life and social skills to escape their cycle of poverty. 0 0 386920 386920 0 Our major accomplishment is our SUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM: For our 17th year this year we proud to announce that our jr. leader pilot program is now a full-time summer program which we extended to add another week along with adding more life skills training. We will continue to allow for growth to include more educational options, such as the stem program, etc. What a learning experience for everyone. Maybe a once in a lifetime? We also had the opportunity to expand our amazing "teen week" to add an all boys weekend that was designed to allow teens who had graduated through our program when they were younger and now on their way to a brighter future. To come back and mentor the younger children, to share their experiences and why this program is so important. The entire week was full of cultural learning, workshops, leadership classes, and bonding exercises. All before they were paired with younger children to mentor during the Edu-Camp sleepover camp on the Big Island. Sleepover Camp on big island allowing the children from ages 3-7 to escape their everyday hardship of living homeless and learning life and social skills to help them succeed. This camp allows for the public community to be more involved with sharing their talents and teaching new skills to the homeless children. We introduce a wide-variety of activities and venues from art, culture, yoga, reading, theater, music and more. We also provide eye and oral exams. Our main goal is to help them gain the self-esteem as well as life and social skills to help them succeed in school. Adventures Abound Day camp is our session on O'ahu and allows the children to explore the wonders of their island. They will go on field trips, adventures and learn the basic life and social skills to succeed in school. This is our 13th year and we strive to advance with each year. The volunteers pick the homeless children up every morning at 7a.m. get them fed and ready for the day. Pair them with their teen mentor and get ready for the field trips across the island. Exploration through the zoo, aquarium, discovery zone, and other educational programs. The overall goal is to provide them with newfound skills to succeed in school. At the end of both camps children and their siblings all receive their new backpacks filled with supplies and new outfits to start their first day of school. Our camp is open free of charge to children ages 3-7, jr. leaders 10-12 years, and teens enrolled in high school. Another amazing aspect of our camp is that we strive to be 100% organic, non-gmo and local grown meals and snacks. This allows for the children to spend their summer with the opportunity to detox their bodies and minds. During this crucial brain development period, these children are being fueled with healthy choices. Our camp also helps to provide first to work moms the opportunity not only work alongside their children while gaining training skills but fulfill their needed hours. Another amazing feature is we have university students participate as interns to help them with their practicums. This camp is designed to provide ample opportunities to the community to help all sorts of members succeed and meet their goals. We typically have 2 interns and 3-5 first to work parents attend our camp. This year our team also went through a self healing training conference that will help to develop even more healthy life skills for our teens. The spirit of excellence motto is part of our newest teen program "Spirit of Inner Beauty". Helping teens to heal their wounds from the inside. 168390 168390 0 Dormitory Project Build. We have started the rehabbing of the dormitory project to be open Aug. 2023. This full residential program will allow 12 young ladies to participate in our life changing programs while attend college to pursue their dreams. This project is in the re-construction phase and will be completed in time for the fall semester of 2023. This opportunity will be the legacy program that will change the face of homelessness on our islands. First of its kind, and moving mountains to help these young ladies succeed and stop the cycle they were born into. When the dormitory is open, it will provide the young ladies the opportunity to gain the life and social skills they need to succeed beyond their educational journey. Our program is inclusive of workshops that build leadership, self discovery, coping skills, and more. All our programs are rooted in the Hawaiian Values and Culture. With the full-time counseling, one on one life coach and a wide variety of zoom workshops with renowned successful woman around the world, these young ladies will build their own self confidence and find their purpose in life. 303879 303879 0 OUTREACH and AWARENESS PROGRAM /COVID KOKUA: Due to covid we had to increase our program services and actually open up more chapters with more team leaders to assure our homeless children were well cared for and not left out of their schooling support, providing more meals since they aren't eating at school, etc. Celebrating our 3rd year on Maui in our outreach this year as well. While this is what makes the difference year round to the children we provide service to, it is basic and simply put. Our volunteers conduct outreach throughout the month to various homeless encampments, seek out new homeless families and keep track of those in our program. We provide monthly hygiene and food boxes. Clothing and life necessities on a scheduled basis. As well provide emergency care for those who have either just became homeless or had an issue with their current living situations. We provide tents, cook stoves, sleeping bags, pillows, clothing, food, etc for those in need. Our primary focus is to provide the immediate needs of every child we encounter during our outreach. We do have a lack of storage so have not been able to have as much supplies on hand as we had hoped for this year. As well, we have faced so many encampment closures due to clean-sweeps of the state. This has caused a hardship on our agency to try to help the homeless families re-establish and replace all that was lost to the sweeps. In addition, we have provided more hygiene gift cards and stopped our food boxes, rather we give meal cards. It is easier for them to use and they don't have to worry about hauling heavy food when asked to leave. We do not provide emergency outreach during the months of our summer educational program and Christmas due to lack of funding. Our full time count for each Island: Maui 225 children, Big Island 688 children, and O'ahu 235. 23456 23456 0 Our Easter program is another vital part to the growth and development of our homeless children. Being included in the emphasis that America puts on holidays, these children need to be included to feel their own self-worth. This year we were able to provide 258 homeless children on Big Island and 122 homeless children on O'ahu and 187 on Maui with their Easter baskets, hygiene kits, healthy meals and spring break activities. In addition, this is our 5th year providing our 60 pre-schoolers with their holiday baskets from the bunny. This year we were even able to add a second bunny to the mix. Our Easter bunny outfits are part of the fairytale of making childhood memories and the children loved playing all day with the Easter bunny, running, jumping, giving hugs. Due to covid we got a full headed bunny so we had more connection with the children. This year the storms we so bad on all the islands, we ended up providing emergency care and outreach with new supplies, such as bedding, tarps, etc. 165892 165892 0 Our back to school provide is essential for the growth and healthy development of our homeless children. Being prepared and looking/feeling like all their peers is important. We provide a new backpack filled with all the required supplies, a new outfit, new shoes and the school uniform if needed. Children walk in their first day of school clean and ready to learn. All islands receive this service, providing over 1,300 homeless children with full support. 48970 48970 0 Keiki Fun Day and Tutoring Summer Program thanks to a few amazing groups and grants we were able to host 5 weeks of keiki fun days and 16 weeks of tutoring and educational support. Target stores provided lots of the lawn and sport activities, Summer Travel groups provide meals and volunteers and the Hawaii Community Grant provides the educational support to help our homeless keiki thrive during these covid shut down days. Reaching over 120 homeless children gain the self development they need to catch up with school needs and learn to build healthy relationships. 134879 134879 0 Holiday Christmas Party/Support: This is another backbone of our program which helps to raise the self-esteem and self-worth of the homeless children. While Christmas might seem not a necessity in life, it is truly life-changing to hundreds of our homeless children living in extreme poverty. Having Santa and his elves actually deliver gifts specifically for that child in need is a life changing experience for these precious children. Most of these children have never had a Christmas, a tree, or a hot meal, a family gathering, nothing as we deem normal. When Santa brings their hearts desire (which is typically a simple toy or a life need), these children truly feel loved and wanted, cared about other than in their world of abandonment. This actual event of having SANTA CARE has a life long lasting impression on the child. As one example is of a 10 year old child who received a Barbie doll... she actually held that doll for over 8 years with her, move after move, hung on to the symbol of what that Barbie meant. Years after she took that Barbie to her dorm room at college. Going to college is a hardship for even the middle class society these days. It is unheard of to even have a homeless child graduate high-school and is really not a normal thought process to attend college. This little girl had a spark in her heart on that Christmas Eve night that she was worth more than what was being represented to her. She is now a college grad, stopped her cycle of poverty and will continue to prosper. We were able to expand to Maui and provide 213 homeless children living in cars and high in the mountains with Christmas gifts, a party in the park to include them decorating a Christmas tree to sit under with the elves and open gifts from Santa. We also were on Maui conducting the emergency services due to the floods island wide during Christmas break. This was a huge relief to children who lost all their simple belongs such as blankets, tents, lights. It was life threatening to many. On the Big Island the holiday party had to be canceled, so we had COVID CHRISTMAS and the children who were able drove through a fun maze of collecting their Santa gifts, hot holiday meal, meal boxes, hygiene bags, stockings, and were able to visit Santa Corner for a quick photo. For children in remote areas of the island, or without transportation we were able to deliver their items island wide. Providing 853 children with their Christmas wishes. Big Island children are also provided their Christmas wishes when they are sponsored by loving donors. Children on the island of O'ahu will have their Christmas eve filled with Santa and his elves arrivals all along the water's edge and high in the mountains. From sunup to sundown Santa will assure that all the 186 children are cared for, plus the 60 preschoolers that we adopted some 6 years ago. The clean sweeps that are continuously happening during the holiday seasons makes it even harder for us to find all the children on O'ahu. This year we found so many children living in cars in parking lots and behind ball parks, etc. 36908 36908 0 Mommy and Me Program: While the program has become more difficult to run due to the continuing clean sweeps,.. we are still out in full force and building the relationships needed to help these infants develop with healthy life skills and nutrition. Our program provides one on one mentoring from skilled volunteers, including nurses, who work the mom to learn healthy ways to care for baby. Workshops include circle time, movement, healthy eating practices, how to handle stress from new baby. The program also allows for weekly "incentives" such as diapers, Formula, baby toys, blankets, and other needs. Each time a mom participates in the group activity they receive that days gifts. 64819 64819 0 Healthy Hearts for Homeless Keiki. This program is another vital program we offer to children who wish to participate in school based sports or athletics team, etc. We provide all the needed gear the child needs, the tuition, extra costs, field trips, etc. In addition every child who needs a pair of athletic shoes for p.e. or playing at school are provided twice a year upon request/need 474924 474924 0 1334113 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 12 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HI X X Gina Greene 8089876018 PO Box 1844 Keaau HI 96749 Magin Patrick Co-Founder Executive Director of Operations 45 X X X 0 0 0 Cliff Kama Sr Vice President /Co Founder/ Jr Leader Coordinator 25 X X 0 0 0 Gina Greene Treasurer/Accountant 5 X X X 0 0 0 Margorie Mae Outreach Director 12 X X X 0 0 0 Natasha Patrick Big Island Director ~ Head Team Leader 30 X X X 0 0 0 Lee Menconi Steiger Secretary 7 X X X 0 0 0 Dr Keith Whittaker Board Advisor 2 X X 0 0 0 Kassy Manuele V. 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Director of Big Island 7 X X X 0 0 0 Ann Strong Fundraiser Chair/Newsletter Coordinator 7 X X 0 0 0 Mary Spears Summer Camp Art/Activity Director 7 X 0 0 0 Candace Fukuda-Hanale Co-Founder/Big Island V.P. 5 X 0 0 0 Dr Ku Kahakalau Meal Director/Christmas Chair 5 X 0 0 0 Cassandra Hastu Maui Team Leader 10 X 0 0 0 Jennifer Davis Assistant Coordinator -Big Island Fundraiser 5 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1368461 0 1368461 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1368461 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3500 0 3500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2234 2234 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13224 0 13224 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9870 0 9870 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5520 5520 0 Program Service Cost to Direct Benefit Homeless Children 1334113 1334113 0 0 0 0 0 0 1368461 1334113 34348 0 0 56345 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 238976 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 295321 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 245321 0 50000 0 295321 0 295321 X 0 0 0 0 0 295321 X 1 X 0 0 0 X 484501 533353 728493 1596077 1368461 4710885 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 484501 533353 728493 1596077 1368461 4710885 4710885 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4710885 0 1 1 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 50000 0 0 0 50000 0 50000 0 1 1 Schedule D, Part I, Line 3 We were sponsored $50,000 for the purchase of our 13 passenger van for the dormitory use. We are ordering the van, still have the funding in a savings account X 20000 RETAIL X 150000 RETAIL X 30 150000 RETAIL X OUTREACH SUPPORT, TENTS, TARPS, ETC 40 0 RETAIL X GIFTS/CHRISTMAS/EASTER FOR CHILDREN 100 0 RETAIL 5 0 0 0 Schedule M, Part I, Lines 25-28 OUR INKIND DONATIONS Most of our programs are run by inkind donations to provide the children with their tangible needs. This results in hundreds of people giving thousands of items for each program. We estimate our total donor base 600 plus and our contributions 900,000. in inkind donations Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 The two co-founders which one serves on the board are a couple. The co-founder and director of operations is also the mother to the Team Leader for the Big Island. This is a family created nonprofit and the family has dedicated their life to the mission of helping the homeless children. It is very natural that they play critical roles in the management and development of the nonprofit. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b All our members are emailed the final report and then we will send out a general email newsletter to all for them to view on the website as well Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Any documents can be obtained with a submission in writing. Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e This is the total amount to run all our direct benefit services, support and supplies, holiday events, camps, workshops, etc. Direct benefit to the children Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 We have items in storage for emergency needs, our summer programs and left inventory from events. To be used for this years give away. We have a donation to be used towards our dormitory van