Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 20, Number 11, 1 November 2003 — Leadership awards [ARTICLE]

Leadership awards

Two Native Hawaiian community leaders have received the national Ford Foundation's prestigious "Leadership for a Changing World" award. Kēhaulani Filimoe'atu and Blossom Feiteira, both of the Wailuku-based nonprofit Hawaiian Community Assets, are the first Hawai'i residents to win the award. They are among 17 LCW awardees recognized this year for working to bring positive social change to their See BRIEFS on page 16

BRIEFS from page 4 communities. Filimoe'atu and Feiteira will receive $100,000 to advance their work and an additional $15,000 for supporting activities over the next two years. The program also includes a multi-year collaborative research initiative that works with awardees to explore how leadership is created and sustained. Through HCA, Feiteira and Filimoe'atu have helped to increase the percentage of homesteads awarded to Native Hawaiians and organizing a coalition that ehallenged federal banking regulators, resulting in the largest-ever lending commitment to Hawaiians. The LCW is a program of The Ford Foundation, an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization, in partnership with the Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Puhlie Service at New York University.