My way of sharing the gifts I’ve been given with my community
2025 Charity: Laulima Giving Program
Each year, I make it a point to give back to the community that has raised me! This year, I am happy to present the Laulima Giving Program as the beneficiary of my Commissions for Change campaign. A portion of each of my commissions in 2024 will be donated directly to the organization, in hopes of helping them achieve their missions.
Why the Laulima Giving Program?
Back in the early 2000s, as I performed with my family’s band, ManoaDNA, we spontaneously decided to hold a toy drive to benefit local families. That initial drive benefited the Laulima Giving Program, and many of our annual toy drives have too! This year, I’m hoping to amplify our effect on the community during the holidays, by donating a portion of my commissions to the program.
Join Me!
Visit laulimagivingprogram.org to see the ways that you can join me in helping! Whether through a monetary donation or by volunteering in-person, there are lots of ways that you can help! If my little campaign inspires you to help, then I will be forever proud of what we’re doing together!
Thank you!
Why Am I Doing This?
Being born and raised here in Hawai‘i, I feel a very strong responsibility to use all my abilities to make my island home better. During my younger days performing with our band, MānoaDNA, I organized a toy drive during Christmas that brought thousands of toys to local families. And when I started my real estate career, I wanted to continue that same intent and started a fundraising pledge called “Commissions for Change.”
Initially, my intent was to donate a small portion of each commission check to a local charity. But in 2020 and in the face of a new pandemic, I raised the stakes and partnered with the Honolulu Board of Realtors to raise over $42,000 for the Hawaii Foodbank. It has been one of the crowning moments in my young real estate career and I will work hard to continue this pledge for years to come.
Now, as we face new challenges each year, I look forward to helping those that help make our island community a better place!