For the month of August, our official activities are coinciding with the NIC wellness contest. We’ve been hard at work donating shoes to Shoes for Soles in our office donation box as well as setting up a blood donation day for our staff.
We’ll resume our out of office events in September.
On July 14 we met up once again to pick up trash at Sandy Beach. Rosie, who had been out all night till 4am running with a friend to celebrate his birthday by running his age in miles (33), was the first to arrive and somehow summoned up the energy for the workday after a short rest on the beach.
It was another great turnout and the event was put…
Read more… Sandy Beach Cleanup: Summary
RevoluSun and Surfrider Foundation are asking for volunteers to help clean up pounds of trash at Sandy Beach. HIC did this as our first event and we had a blast. There were prizes, raffles, and secret things hidden in the sand to find, hundreds of people came out and it was amazing to see so many people taking care of our beautiful island. For anyone that wants to, Rosie will…
Read more… July 14th Beach Cleanup
Well… June was a sad month. We lost our beloved Cheeky. But we also did a lot of good.
The Heeaia restoration ended up getting cancelled and we will be rescheduling for a later date.
For the DLNR Trail Clearing, Rosie was the only one from HIC in attendance but it was a fantastic day. They spent roughly 5 hours doing hard labor in the mountains clearing a trail that…
Read more… June Event Recap
The State of Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) was recently honored with two awards for its suite of mobile business applications. The mobile apps are the first of their kind worldwide and the first mobile apps launched by thestate.
The International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA) awarded a prestigious 2012 Merit Awardfor Outstanding Innovation, one of the top international honors for business registries, to DCCA’s Business Registration…
Read more… Hawaii State Business Apps Earn Top International Award
The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ (DCCA) Business Registration Division (BREG) received a 2012 Merit Award for its mobile application suite from the International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA) at its annual conference. The award was presented at the annual IACA conference in Williamsburg, Virginia on May 21, 2012.
Per the IACA web site, the winners were evaluated based upon each project’s magnitude of change, time to implement, cost,…
Read more… DCCA BREG Wins IACA Merit Award
The official event for June will be a He’eia Stream Restoration near Kaneohe. Lynn will be the leader on this one as Rosie will be off clearing some trails with DLNR this same day.
Also, there is another beach cleanup on Sunday if anyone would like to go as an unofficial event. Beach cleanups are a blast, we had a great time at our first one and even got free…
Read more… June Events
Just a quick wrap up from the events in May.
Saturday
Rosie’s H.U.R.T. group put on a ‘Run for George!’ event Saturday morning. They ended up raising almost $7,000, every cent of which went to her buddy George who is battling cancer. About 75 runners come out and Rosie baked some impressive ‘George’ cake pops all while helping her friend Steve organize where the event. She also wore the famed…
Read more… Summary of May “George-a-pa-looza!”
The Web Marketing Association presented the 2012 Mobile Web award for Best Government Mobile Website to Hawaii’s Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs for their business registration mobile app. Owners of the over 120,000 registered Hawaii businesses and anyone who needs to access business entity information for Hawaii businesses can now leverage any mobile platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry) to gain access to the the State of Hawaii’s Business…
Read more… DCCA BREG Wins Best Government Mobile Website
So we’ve been thinking… we really want to do a coin drive, but with a purpose. Something tangible we can move towards so we know where the coins we are donating are going. Plus we want to restrict it to a charity in Hawaii and ideally do another sort of adoption. We looked at adopting a reef, but that ended up being something in the realm of $10k +. Then…
Read more… New Event… Coin Drive
NIC Hawaii is now doing business as Tyler Hawaii. Read about the rebrand.