CONTRIBUTING to a neW model of work that benefits all
working toward Hawaiʻi’s Generational Workforce Commitment
By 2045, all people of Hawaiʻi will have a path to a career that enables them to learn, work, and thrive in Hawaiʻi and contribute to a vibrant economy grounded in community values.
Learn more about the Generational Workforce Commitment
Data Sensemaking
We find ways to better utilize and identify gaps in the existing data, then build capacity across the workforce ecosystem to collect, analyze, and interpret data to fill the gaps.
Funding Innovative Workforce Solutions
We align grant-funding around projects that present innovative solutions to strengthening cross-sector collaboration, pathways to good jobs, and communities.
Coalition building & ADVOCACY
We convene and advocate across sectors to build shared understanding, align action, and advance long-term workforce solutions that no single organization could achieve alone.
Data SenseMaking & Capacity Building
A coordinated, strategic approach to data collection, sharing, and analysis is a powerful tool in identifying challenges and opportunities, storytelling, making sound decisions, and measuring outcomes.
By better using existing publicly-available data, we are able to better understand the challenges faced by Hawaiʻi workers and learners, while also illustrating the value of developing additional datasets through cross-agency sharing.
In particular, we focus on building capacity across the workforce ecosystem to collect, analyze, and interpret data. By identifying equity gaps, informing the design of support services, measuring the success of initiatives, and driving continuous improvement, we aim to empower stakeholders—nonprofits, government agencies, education providers, and employers—to make data-driven decisions that advance workforce resilience and equity.
Our workforce recommendation report, “From Crisis to Opportunity: Building Hawaiʻi's Workforce Resilience”, highlights critical insights and calls to action to ensure a more equitable and resilient future for Hawaiʻi's workers and learners.
This work comes to life through the Workforce Understory, a data storytelling and sense-making series that invites stakeholders across Hawaiʻi to explore what the data reveals—and what it doesn’t— about opportunity, equity, and the future of work in our state.
Funding Innovative Workforce Solutions
We fund projects that impact one or more of the following areas:
Paid Pathways for Youth: Hawaiʻi must ensure every young person can see and step into a viable path — paid, structured learning and work experiences as a default — across all islands.
Credential Completion and Lifelong Learning for Working Adults: To fill critical roles and strengthen economic mobility through career and wage progression, make it easier to complete short-term, employer-aligned credentials.
Employer-Driven Sector Partnerships: Hawaiʻi’s most successful training outcomes occur where employers see themselves as co-designers of pathways and shared stewards of hiring and advancement, rather than simply recipients of talent.
Cross-Agency Data Infrastructure: Hawaiʻi cannot coordinate pathways or measure progress without shared visibility of what is working and where emerging opportunity truly lies.
Coalition building and advocacy
From business, to education, to government, to nonprofits, to philanthropy, to workers and learners, we support convening with purpose. By convening coalitions like the Learn Work Thrive Hui that bring together organizations and individuals who are committed to and actively making change in Hawaiʻi’s workforce ecosystem, we provide regular opportunities for cross-sector collaboration, alignment, and impact.
We work from a clear understanding that no single sector can drive workforce transformation alone. Lasting change requires coordinated action over time. Our role is to help build that coordination by advocating for policy, developing shared language and long-term goals, cultivating public-private partnerships, and identifying where momentum already exists within the system—and helping to catalyze it.
This work is guided by our recent report, From Crisis to Coalition, which serves as a roadmap for near-term (2026) policy priorities and investment areas needed to lay the foundation for Hawaiʻi’s Generational Workforce Commitment. The report reflects what we’ve learned through years of convening and sense-making—and helps translate shared understanding into aligned action.