Andrew Friedlander is co-founder of Colliers Monroe Friedlander, Inc. Andrew has more than three decades of commercial real estate experience and is Hawaii’s first member of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Andrew serves as director of Enterprise Honolulu and the Japan-America Society.

Andrew has decided to become actively involved in non-profit work 10 years ago realizing the support he has received from the community. He has been greatly influenced by his wife, Janice, incumbent president of Manoa Valley Theater and a strong supporter og the Meals on Wheels program.
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Bob Hiam started off at Hawaii Medical Service Association’s Claims department processing claims for the business, a core activity for an insurance company. Patience and perseverance paid off well that 37 years later, he stepped at the helm of Hawaii’s largest health insurance provider – providing healthcare coverage to more than half of the State’s population.

“It’s an interesting business. It had opportunities,” Bob says. “HMSA was growing and adding business at the time and I believe that being at the right place at the right time has a lot to do with things.”

“I was there and just sort of worked up thru the levels of management and levels of responsibility,” he adds.
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Frank De Lima is one of Hawaii’s most celebrated comedians. Frank has won the coveted Na Hoku Hanohano Award for 11 of his 13 comedy albums. He founded the Frank De Lima Student Enrichment Program in 1980, a non-profit organization devoted to providing a better future for Hawaii’s students.

His organization aims to help Hawaii’s students understand the importance of reading, studying, laughing, and family, and managing major emotional and physical life transitions. Frank visit 350 schools biennially since the programs birth. Frank has received numerous honors, including Governor Cayetano’s Kilohana Award for Volunteer of the Year and the Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Award from the National Education Association.
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More than highly innovative products, the founders and owners of C4 Waterman, Hawaii-based manufacturers of surfing equipment, have taken to fore the marketing of their lifestyle. Todd Bradley, Brian Keaulana, and Mike Fox base their business philosophy on the four core disciplines of a waterman – balance, endurance, strength, and tradition – leading to their C4 brand. And beyond their mission of advocating the waterman way of life, the C4 owners have grounded a foundation that they hope would protract their already socially veered mindset.

Four months in to their business venture, Bradley, Keaulana and Fox are already riding the huge and fast waves of entrepreneurial success that they wish to reflect back to the community soon.
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Aloha Evan and Kari,

Thank you so much for the privilege of working with you and your company, Greater Good Radio. It is my pleasure to share with you that our Greater Good Radio project has won us the “Success Skills Individual Topic” trophy in the semi-finals that was held in San Francisco, California. We will now go on to compete in the SIFE National Exposition that will be held in Kansas City, Missouri. We are excited to share with the guests and judges our incredible experience with Greater Good Radio and their guests.
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Greater Good TV Debuts at #1
Konishiki interview
Greater Good Events Project
SBA Small Business Journalists of the Year Award
HPU Young Alumni Award
Greater Good Book update
Kyle’s wedding
Setting deadlines
Offshoring

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It’s been a long time since I’ve written a journal and the year is already coming to a close. A lot has happened since July. We’ve been busy doing tapings for the television launch next year, January 2007. Actually we were supposed to launch in September but there was little time to prepare the shows and everyone was rushed and stressed out, so we pushed it back to January. I thought this was a good idea so that we could spend more time on making the shows good.

During the end of September we did a Greater Good Anniversary party at Pearl at Ala Moana Shopping Center. That was a blast. We had approximately 300 people there. The food was great and all of the drinks were very tasty. We had a chance to preview the food and drink the night before at the Hawaii Business Magazine’s Fittest CEO event. Thank goodness we had a chance to go the night before our party because during the party there was no time to enjoy the food and beverages. There were so many things to take care of to make sure that the party operated smoothly. Thank goodness to Hawaii Pacific Entertainment and Lincoln Jacobe who helped with the planning and operations of the party. Without them, I think my stress level would have been much greater. Overall, I thought the party was great and I couldn’t have asked for a better event! It would be awesome to do something like this annually.
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Viva Andrada, writer and entrepreneur, released her first book “ Light of Dawn” at the age of 17 through the help and encouragement of her former Humanities professor. And with the support of her family and friends, Viva has gone on to pursue a career in the media, starting as a staff writer for MOD magazine and eventually becoming editor of MOD Girl.

Half a decade later, she founded Fashion ART or F*ART with her sister, Happy, in pursuit of their passion for fashion while at the same time uplifting the cause of Filipino fashion designers, artists and musicians by selling their products in their store. The F*ART establishment, a striking two-story building that sticks out like a sore thumb in Kamuning’s drab (as described by Cheekie Albay of Yehey.com), also serves as an art gallery and venue for poets and musicians to showcase their talents.

In December 2007, Viva released “Survival: Your Guide to Life”, a compilation of stories from more than 150 “life guides”—various individuals from all walks and fields of life.
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It was back in August when Evan asked me to pick a Sony product that would enhance my productivity. At first I thought of getting the MFM-HT205 (20” wide screen LCD/TV), which up to now, I still haven’t seen any that matches the specs for the same price. The lowest I’ve seen on Froogle is $679.00, not a very high WAF (wife approval factor) rating but still worth it. After telling Evan this, he said to try and see if I can find a system that’s close to the price range. By the way we started working on Greater Good TV early June and we all became like hyper-threading processors, multi-tasking and all that, pretty exciting. Basically my main responsibilities now are the audios and the soon to be launched online videos, among other things. So from audio to video, thus the hardware upgrades. I was really surprised when Evan told me that he would be getting the RC310G, I found some nice models that would do the job under $1,500 but he said we might as well get the higher end model and the boss was right, overall it’s far out! (more…)