News release from Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center:
Hilo, Hawai‘i – June 27, 2016 – On behalf of Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center, Executive Director Julie Mitchell received a $5,000 AIM For Excellence Award for outstanding achievement in nonprofit management. AIM For Excellence committee member Helen Chang presented Ms. Mitchell with the award at a June 8 award luncheon in Honolulu, hosted by The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc.
“Julie’s project was to increase the organizational capacity at Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center. The revelation for this project came during her participation in the 2015 Weinberg Fellows Program and is ongoing,” Chang stated. “The positive results have improved the agency’s engagement, and has strengthened the impact of its services to its clients and the community,” said Chang, a Vice President with Bank of Hawai‘i.
The $5,000 grant supports the continuation of mediation services for the poor and needy, wrote Weinberg Foundation Trustee Alvin Awaya in his award letter.
Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center provides mediations for a wide variety of situations, including divorce, child custody and visitation, neighbor-to-neighbor, consumer-merchant, real estate, landlord-tenant, workplace, business, small and large group facilitations, and more. For more information, call 935-7844 or visit www.hawaiimediation.org.
