Morning Assembly: 05. Puni Jackson
As we draw the year to an end we also wrap up season 1 of the Morning Assembly Podcast with our final guest. Puni Jackson is the Director of Hoʻoulu ʻĀina, a 100-acre nature preserve nestled in the back of Kalihi Valley and cared for by Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, a nonprofit community health center and FQHC. She is also a Native Hawaiian, an artist, a friend, and a leader in the community. Puni has known HIHO since our beginnings, but she has known Ryan even longer. We explore our past, discuss how our present is going and talk about the future of volunteer engagement, retention, and nonprofit programming all through a distinctly Hawaiian Lens.
Topics we talk about:
Volunteer service
Volunteer management:
Scaling volunteers with program growth
What it means to be Hawaiian
Organizational and volunteer leadership through Hawaiian cultural practices
Important links & stuff we talk about in this podcast:
Music by Infraction
Photo by Kaʻohua Lucas
HIHO Education Dept www.hihoed.org
HIHO www.hiho.org
Waimanalo Blanche Pope elementary
Art to go at Honolulu Museum of Art - Linekona
FQHC - Federally Qualified Health Center
Herman (The German) Piʻikea Clark
DLNR - Department of Land and Natural Resources
Definitions:
Waimanālo (Hawaiian) - A town in the district of Koʻolaupoko on the island of Oʻahu
Wāhine (Hawaiian) - Woman
Kāne (Hawaiian) - Male
Hula (Hawaiian) - Traditional Hawaiian Dance form
Oli (Hawaiian) - Chant
Mele (Hawaiian) - Song
Mālama (Hawaiian) - To take care of, tend, attend, care for, preserve, protect
Kōkua (Hawaiian) - To help, aid, assist
Kuleana (Hawaiian) - Responsibility
Hala Trees - Native Hawaiian Plant with leaves that are used in traditional weaving
Aloha (Hawaiian) - Love, affection
Hōʻailona (Hawaiian) - A sign
Kūpuna (Hawaiian) - Ancestors
Tūtū (Hawaiian) - Grandparent
Haole (Hawaiian) - White person, foreigner
ʻOhana (Hawaiian) - Family
Mālama ʻĀina (Hawaiian) - Care/Stewardship for the land
ʻŌlena (Hawaiian) - Plant, Turmeric
Nihopeku (Hawaiian) - Young plant bud
AlohaʻĀina (Hawaiian) - Love of the land
Hoʻounauna (Hawaiian) - To send on an errand
Hoku (Hawaiian) - Star
