Hot Shots – 1/1/25

Photo courtesy First Hawaiian Bank

Bank Makes Big Deposit For Charities

First Hawaiian Bank’s employees and retirees raised nearly $874,000 for 36 charities in Hawai‘i, Guam and Saipan as part of the bank’s annual employee giving campaign, Kōkua Mai. Since its inception, the program has raised more than $12 million for numerous local organizations, including Blood Bank of Hawai‘i, Easter Seals Hawai‘i and Hawai‘i Foodbank. Pictured (from left) are Kayla Smith, FHB marketing programs officer; Shyla Cockett Fukushima, FHB senior vice president and consumer product compliance department manager; Jerric Hays, FHB credit analyst; Norton Blake Ching, FHB assistant vice president and branch prop project manager; and Elijah-Anakin Takumi Shintaku, FHB personal banker.

Celebrating A Business Accelerator

The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement and Spectrum recently celebrated the fifth anniversary of CNHA’s KūHana business accelerator program and the program’s fifth cohort.
Pictured (front, from left) are state Reps. Cedric Gates and Greggor Ilagan; Rebecca Lieberman, Spectrum director of government affairs; Keri Askew Bailey, Spectrum group vice president of government affairs; Michelle Kitashiro, Spectrum Reach field marketing specialist; and Jenna Weissman, Spectrum Reach account executive; Pictured (back, from left) are state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole; state Rep. Daniel Holt; Akili Jones, Spectrum Reach manager; Noah Tom, Spectrum Reach’s Kernel regional production manager; and state Reps. Micah Aiu, Sean Quinlan and Darius Kila.