Okay, I admit that I slept on this one, but I wanted to mention to anyone interested that you have just a few days left to enter the Strum For A Greener World Sweepstakes for a gorgeous matched pair of a Taylor guitar and a Kanile'a ukulele, along with $2400 cash. A $10 non-refundable donation to Saving Hawaiiʻs Forests 501(c)(3) gets one (1) entry to the sweepstakes, with no limit to entries (i.e. $10=1 entry, $50=5 entries, etc.). To learn more about the fundraiser, please click here.
NOTE: NO donation required to enter! This sweepstakes is a fundraiser for a registered non-profit organization, but I also want to make clear that if you don't have the means to donate, you can still enter!! Details about that here.
So why is this happening at all? The Saving Hawaii's Forests 501(c)3 was founded by Kanile'a owners, Kristen and Joe Souza. In an effort to restore the Native Hawaiian forests that were lost to development, ranching, etc., the organization set a goal to plant 196,000 plants, all entirely endemic, to recreate Native Forest zones. Not just the koa trees, but all of the rest of the plants that make up a healthy forest ecosystem.
To facilitate this, Kristen and Joe formed a partnership with Habilitat Inc., a substance abuse rehabilitation program, to offer transformational experiences to program residents in their journey -- helping them change their lives by changing the world, if you will.
These are clearly not your run-of-the-mill instruments, even by the typically lofty standards of Taylor and Kanile'a. To give you a closer look, here's Kanile'a co-founder Kristen Souza:
And a couple of videos to put in context the work of Saving Hawaii's Forests...
...and the partnership with Habilitat:
I'm sorry I didn't catch on to this and pass it along sooner, but you have until midnight HST on December 31, 2023 to enter. Please donate if you can, and if you can't, check out the details of how to enter without making a donation. (Short version: mail in your details, postmarked by the same deadline). Either way, you can click here to learn more!
Thanks for taking a look, and good luck to everyone who enters!
NOTE: NO donation required to enter! This sweepstakes is a fundraiser for a registered non-profit organization, but I also want to make clear that if you don't have the means to donate, you can still enter!! Details about that here.
So why is this happening at all? The Saving Hawaii's Forests 501(c)3 was founded by Kanile'a owners, Kristen and Joe Souza. In an effort to restore the Native Hawaiian forests that were lost to development, ranching, etc., the organization set a goal to plant 196,000 plants, all entirely endemic, to recreate Native Forest zones. Not just the koa trees, but all of the rest of the plants that make up a healthy forest ecosystem.
To facilitate this, Kristen and Joe formed a partnership with Habilitat Inc., a substance abuse rehabilitation program, to offer transformational experiences to program residents in their journey -- helping them change their lives by changing the world, if you will.
These are clearly not your run-of-the-mill instruments, even by the typically lofty standards of Taylor and Kanile'a. To give you a closer look, here's Kanile'a co-founder Kristen Souza:
And a couple of videos to put in context the work of Saving Hawaii's Forests...
...and the partnership with Habilitat:
I'm sorry I didn't catch on to this and pass it along sooner, but you have until midnight HST on December 31, 2023 to enter. Please donate if you can, and if you can't, check out the details of how to enter without making a donation. (Short version: mail in your details, postmarked by the same deadline). Either way, you can click here to learn more!
Thanks for taking a look, and good luck to everyone who enters!
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but yeah, there's just not enough strings to pull off some of it.
