Gets first Kaua’i United Way Founders’ Award — Carol Furtado, a Lawa’i resident employed at Marriott’s Waiohai Beach Club development office in Po’ipu, recently received the first Founders’ Award for her work as a member of the board of directors
Gets first Kaua’i United Way Founders’ Award — Carol Furtado, a Lawa’i resident employed at Marriott’s Waiohai Beach Club development office in Po’ipu, recently received the first Founders’ Award for her work as a member of the board of directors of the Kaua’i United Way.
The award is given to a Kaua’i United Way board member who best exemplifies the intentions and spirit of the founding board members. Those founding board members, in 1943, were Elsie Wilcox, Mabel Wilcox, A. Hebard Case, Lindsay Fay, Andrew Gross, and Bernard D. Pratt.
A veteran of the Kaua’i United Way board for over 20 years, Furtado is currently board vice president, and has served as president. She currently is chair of the Allocations and Agency Relations committees.
Additionally, Furtado is a member of the Kaua’i Police Commission and the County of Kaua’i Family Self-Sufficiency Council, and also serves as legislative chair for the Society of Human Resource Management.
Furtado is first vice chair of the State Advisory Council on Juvenile Justice, and a member of the board of directors of Hale ‘Opio Kaua’i, Inc.
The Founders’ Award was presented to Furtado by Mayor Bryan J. Baptiste at the recent Kaua’i United Way annual meeting, at the Kaua’i Marriott Resort & Beach Club.
In 1943, the Kaua’i Community Chest was founded by Elsie Wilcox, Mabel Wilcox, A. Hebard Case, Lindsay Fay, Andrew Gross and Bernard D. Pratt.
The founders believed the organization should unite community nonprofits in an annual funding appeal to the general public under the Kaua’i United Welfare Fund umbrella.
The organization would distribute these funds appropriately. The Kaua’i United Welfare Fund ultimately became today’s Kaua’i United Way.
It was the founders’ intent to develop, strengthen and make socially more effective the operation of funded services, and to promote cooperation, efficiency and economy in the operation of organizations to the end that the general welfare of the people of Kaua’i would be advanced.
The lofty goal 60 years ago also moved “that dependency, delinquency and defectiveness, and such social conditions as tend to create them, be reduced and ultimately eliminated.”
