June 2007 | Small Business News
'Broken Trust' Book Royalties Will
Help Support Traveling Preschool
By Randall Roth
The Broken Trust Royalty Fund has made a $10,000 grant to Partners in Development Foundation to help support the Foundation's "Tutu and Me" traveling preschool and other related programs and activities of the Foundation. This is the first such grant from The Broken Trust Royalty Fund, which will continue to help fund early childhood educational programs and services.
The Broken Trust Royalty Fund, a donor-advised fund at the Hawaii Community Foundation, receives all the royalties from the sale of the book "Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust," co-authored by Senior U.S. District Judge Samuel P. King and University of Hawaii law professor Randall W. Roth.
The "Tutu and Me" program is a mobile preschool that travels to Native Hawaiian communities and encourages children's caregivers to participate in the teaching process. "Tutu and Me" sessions include a variety of learning activities to strengthen literacy and cognitive skills, as well as physical and emotional development. In addition to "Tutu and Me," Partners in Development Foundation manages a wide variety of other programs including family education, intergenerational mentoring, foster family recruitment and support, science and engineering mentoring and environmental education.
"This gift will allow our educational programs to grow as it will enhance the children's learning experiences and our teaching tools," said Jan E. Hanohano Dill, CEO of Partners in Development. "We are honored to be the first charity chosen to receive a grant from this new fund." "This investment will help us more effectively administer the Foundation's programs that serve children and families throughout the state," said Dill.
Published in 2006 and already in its third printing, "Broken Trust" has been called a "political thriller" and has received excellent reviews by national experts, including law professors, historians, trust-law specialists, senior officials of large charities, and in publications that serve trust companies, law firms, executives of nonprofit organizations, and other professional groups. The book details how some of the most powerful people in Hawaii used Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's trust for their own benefit at the expense of the intended beneficiaries.
"Broken Trust" is currently being used at several mainland law schools; in a variety of courses at the University of Hawaii and Hawaii Pacific University; and in modern Hawaiian history and civics classes in public and private high schools across the state.
50th State Quarter Selected
"Hawaii the Island State" was selected as the official design for the last of the 50-states commemorative quarter series put out by the U.S. Mint. The Hawaii coin depicts the King Kamehameha I statue on the right side of the coin, with his hand stretching toward the eight main Hawaiian islands. The State motto, "Ua mau ke ea o ka ‘aina i ka pono," (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness) is in the lower left side of the coin. At the top of the coin are the words "Hawai‘i" and the year "1959," when Hawai‘i was admitted to the Union. "E Pluribus Unum" (Out of the many, one) is at the bottom.
The coin was selected by Governor Linda Lingle on advice from the Hawaii Commemorative Quarter Advisory Commission and online voting from the public. It will be issued by the U.S. Mint next year (2008).
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