The online auction will start on Friday, November 8, 2024, at 3:00 pm, and will close on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 7:00 pm.
Register to bid by entering your mobile number, or email address in the box above.
Winning bidder may securely check out from your phone with a credit card. If winning bidder has not checked out the remaining item, it will be automatically processed on Monday, November 18, 2024.
Item won will be available to pick up on Friday, November 22, 2024 between 9 am and 2 pm at the Suisan office located at 333 Kilauea Avenue, Suite 202, Hilo, HI 96720. You can also contact Janet Dayawon at janet.dayawon@suisan.com if you would like a better date/time. Thank you!
Honoree
This year, Junior Achievement of Hawai‘i Island (JAHI) honors its JA Business Hall of Fame inductee, Mike Miyahira.
Mike Miyahira is the owner of Business Strategies. He provides consulting services to family owned and closely held businesses located across the state. He focuses on succession planning, family business governance issues and strategic planning services, serving clients on all islands.
Prior to 2000, Miyahira spent 24 years with one of Hawai‘i’s largest commercial banks on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Hawai‘i. The bulk of his banking career was spent as senior lending officer and manager of several of the bank’s business banking units.
He currently serves as a Regent for the University of Hawai‘i System, a director of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, the Island of Hawai‘i YMCA, and the Japanese Community Association of Hawai‘i. Miyahira is also a member of the University of Hawai‘i Shidler Family Business Center of Hawai‘i and serves on its Big Island Advisory Board.
Miyahira has also been a trustee and chair of the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court. He is also a past president of the National Client Protection Organization, whose membership spans the US and Canada. He has been a presenter at the American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility’s annual Client Protection Forum as well as the National Client Protection Organization’s annual Fall Workshop.
He is a past adjunct professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, College of Business and Economics, past president of the Hawai‘i Island Chamber of Commerce, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement of Hawai‘i Island, the Big Island Business Council and the Hawai‘i Island United Way; past treasurer for the United Way Statewide Association of Hawai‘i, and past vice chair and corporate treasurer for the Island of Hawai‘i YMCA. He has also served on the State of Hawai‘i’s Dept. of Public Safety, Hawai‘i Island Corrections Advisory Council as well as on the Advisory Council for the College of Business and Economics at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo.
Past Hawai‘i Island recipients of the prestigious JA Business Hall of Fame award include Bobby Fujimoto of HPM Building Supply (1990), Allan Ikawa of Big Island Candies (1995), Tony Taniguchi (1998) and Barry Taniguchi (2010) of KTA Super Stores, Monty Richards of Kahua Ranch (2009), Ric Maiava and Debbie Ching-Maiava of Ponds and Ken’s House of Pancakes (2012), Sharon Scheele (2022), Sidney Fuke (2023), and many more pillars of Hawai‘i Island’s business community.
About JAHI
Junior Achievement of Hawai‘i Island (JAHI) delivers JA's financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs to more than 4,000 kindergarten through 12th grade students on Hawai‘i Island each year.
JAHI’s high school Company Program is the only one of its kind in the State of Hawai‘i. The hands-on program runs annually from September through December. Students, from freshmen to seniors and from all East Hawai‘i high schools, join a company team, sponsored by local businesses and advised by local business people. For 15 weeks the companies create brands, develop product ideas and then manufacture, market and sell their products. Throughout the program, teams account for their expenses and revenues, manage their time, deliverables and human resources, and also perform community service activities.
For more than 20 years JAHI has provided scholarships to high school seniors based on applicant’s academic achievement, extra-curricular activity involvement, community service and leadership skills. Scholarship recipients are announced, and company and individual awards are presented at JAHI’s annual “Futures Unlimited Banquet.”
JAHI is a district of Junior Achievement of Hawai‘i, Inc. operating in East Hawai‘i Island, and is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization.
Junior Achievement's purpose is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.
Junior Achievement has over 100 local JA Areas across the nation, and together we are the nation's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their futures, and make smart academic and economic choices. JA's programs—in the core content areas of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy—ignite the spark in young people to experience and realize the opportunities and realities of work and life in the 21st century.
Sponsors
Mahalo to all of our sponsors!
Proceeds from this auction will help JAHI continue to provide opportunities for Hawai‘i Island students from kindergarten through high school. JA programs prepare our keiki by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace.
