Agency Details:

Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations

Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations unites and strengthens the nonprofit sector as a collective force to improve the quality of life in Hawaii. HANO provides advocacy, leadership, training, technical assistance, consulting services, communications, planning assistance and other services to public, private and nonprofit organizations.

Description:
HANO improves the effectiveness of nonprofits and community groups through advocacy, training and technical assistance, offering workshops on topics such as board governance, proposal writing, financial management, outcomes and business planning.

HANO's web site and monthly electronic newsletter, Agenda, provide news and information, employment opportunities and a calendar of events of interest to all nonprofits and people working in and with the nonprofit sector.

HANO is a statewide association of 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organizations. It is affiliated with the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, which represents more than 40 state and regional associations with more than 22,000 nonprofit members.

HANO will help nonprofits mobilize on public policy matters, manage and lead more effectively, collaborate and exchange solutions, save money through group buying programs and achieve their missions in the community. HANO has a growing nonprofit membership of more than 270 organizations. In addition, it has corporate and individual supporting memberships.

History:
The Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations traces its history back to 1901 and the Shippers' Wharf Committee, which collected a tax to eradicate rats carrying bubonic plague. Under several names since then, it has evolved, bridging the interests of all community sectors. In recent decades, as HCSC, it ran Help for Nonprofits, the Weinberg Fellows and Castle Colleagues programs. Today, HANO has translated that experience into management and consulting services serving the nonprofit and public sectors and community groups.

Past planning efforts by the organization led to such initiatives as creating The Family Centers, the Hawaii Foodbank, the ASK-2000 information and referral service (now the Aloha United Way's 211 service), the Ke Ala Hoku community vision program and the outcomes-based allocation process used by AUW and other funders.

Contact people:

Lisa Maruyama, Chief Executive Officer, (phone), (email) Jennifer Cornish Creed, Director, Member & Professional Development, (phone), (email)

Address:

2909 Waialae Ave. #B015 Honolulu, HI 96826 (See a map)

Web Site: http://hano-hawaii.org

Directions:

HANO is located in Honolulu at the corner of Waialae Ave. and Kapiolani Blvd. Limited parking is available onsite. Public transportation is close by, with several bus routes stopping across the street from this building and others passing within two. . . (more)

Last updated on April 9, 2010