Greetings My Fellow DLEMBA1’s,
I’m not sure how many people are actually clicking through to the blog. Maybe throw a comment up if you see this? Your login is your first name. The password is… Look for Curly’s email on June 3rd. 🙂
I ran across a story today. It’s from a few months ago. There’s a girl who went to school on the mainland, but came home to work in her family’s business. Beyond that she wanted to help kids from her community gain an education and realize their potential. She started a scholarship with Hawaii Community Foundation.
I’m gonna feel really bad if I’m the only one who didn’t know all of this… But you all know this girl. Here’s the video from the Hawaii Community Foundation’s 2014 Annual Report featuring Sara Miura and her Rise Up Scholarship.
Sara, this is amazing and inspiring.
Edit (11/19/2014): HCF must have deleted the video on Vimeo. I’ll include a link to a clip that’s on YouTube. If I find the full video I’ll edit the post again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzH2bpc7e70
[vimeo 96632666 w=500 h=281]
Wow, Sara! I see a future DLEMBA Leadership class watching this video for inspiration. You continue to inspire us all.
And thanks, Tony, for finding and sharing this! I’m beginning to suspect you have some web crawler going searching for web videos featuring fellow DLEMBITES!
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To my DLEMBA family: I will be forever grateful to you for supporting me through our two years together: for tutoring me and for keeping my spirits up when you probably wanted to scream, “Just quit working at Sushi Katsu!” You now know why it was difficult for me to quit my part-time job serving up sushi. I am humbled and really quite embarrassed by the attention, so I will use this as an opportunity to give you encouragement should you feel inclined to create a philanthropic project of your own. I would highly recommend exploring the services of Hawaii Community Foundation. HCF always treated me with respect even though I did not have a large sum of money to donate, and excels at matching donors’ intent with our community’s needs. I hope this note finds all of you well. Not a day goes by that I do not think of our time together.