MEO Youth Services-leaders join homeless awareness sign waving
About 25 Maui Economic Opportunity Youth Services participants and agency staff held signs that read “Homelessness Affects You,” “Everyone Should Have A Home” and “Imagine a Maui Where everyone lives in a House” on Tuesday, Nov. 16, along Kaahumanu Avenue as part of a...
Kris Padin named MEO IT Manager
Kris A. Padin has joined Maui Economic Opportunity in the key post of Information Technology Manager. He will be responsible for technology and maintenance services for the nonprofit agency’s current hardware and software and for long range planning and policies....
MEO named finalist in PBN Nonprofit Leadership Award
Maui Economic Opportunity was selected as a finalist in the Cades Schutte/The Cades Foundation Nonprofit Leadership Award, part of Pacific Business News’ 2021 Business Leadership Hawaii awards. The 56-year-old agency established to help people in need in Maui County...
The MEO Minute 2
Cassi Yamashita, director of Community Services, presented the second installment of The MEO Minute on The Maui Daily on Wednesday, Nov. 10. The focus of her report was on the housing assistance available. The Nov. 10 Maui Daily can be viewed at...
The MEO Minute debuts on Akaku’s The Maui Daily
Maui Economic Opportunity began a weekly segment “The MEO Minute” on The Maui Daily news show on Akaku Maui Community Media on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The segment will appear Wednesdays. The Maui Daily airs weekdays live at 4 p.m. with replays at 7 and 9 p.m. and midnight....
MEO’s Heather Wells earns Debt Management Professional certification
Maui Economic Opportunity’s Heather Wells has been certified as a Debt Management Professional and will be available to help clients of the nonprofit agency that works with people in need to come up with plans to extricate themselves from crisis and to better manage...
MEO joins Halloween health fair on Lanai
Maui Economic Opportunity Lanai Branch Manager Kaena Doolin and her volunteer daughter, Myah, represented the agency at the Healthy Halloween Drive-Thru Health Fair on Oct. 30 at the Old Dole Administration Parking Lot. About 15 health and social service agencies and...
Waco has left the building
Thursday, Oct. 28, was a sad day. It was IT Manager Waco Muse’s last day at Maui Economic Opportunity. Waco joined MEO in May 2015, bringing more than 20 years of technology experience to MEO, including 16 years with another community-based organization. He did it...
The 2021 BBB Torch Awards for Ethics
Better Business Bureau is pleased to announce the 2021 Torch Awards Business & Charity Winners! 2021 Torch Awards Presentation presented by NOW Heating and Air! View this year's winners on our Torch Awards page here
Halloween at MEO
There were a lot of cats, Jackie Kennedy, a representative of the Maasai, an East African tribe, Hippies, Star Fleet Science Officer, Albert Einstein, the Three Blind Mice and spiders and their webs and other creatures roaming the halls of the Wailuku office of Maui...