News & Updates

Since 2012, the Foundation has partnered with the University of Hawaiʻi to offer graduate assistantship opportunities at both UH Hilo and UH Mānoa. For the Fall 2026 school year, we are pleased to support nine graduate assistantship...

We’re excited to welcome the newest cohort of Hauʻoli Mau Loa Fellows at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Over the next two academic years, these eight outstanding graduate students will receive...

The Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance will be holding the 32nd annual Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference (HCC) on Tuesday, July 22 through Thursday, July 24, 2025, at the Hawai‘i Convention Center in Honolulu. This year’s conference theme, E...

Updated Report - Characterizing Hawai‘i's Natural Resources Management Sector: Jobs, Education, Salaries and Expenditures (May 2024) In 2012, The University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO), in cooperation with The...

Since 2012, the Foundation has partnered with the University of Hawaiʻi to support graduate assistantship opportunities at the University of Hawaiʻi, Hilo and Mānoa. This year, we are pleased to support nine graduate assistantship...

There are a number of studies that explore the value of sabbaticals in the nonprofit sector. The Durfee Foundation is perhaps best known for its advocacy for this tool in the sector. Our Board was convinced it was worth it for us to try...

Interviews conducted and written by Rachel Aquino Background and Education KYLLE ROY was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, and is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools at Kapālama. She continued her studies at Chapman University in...

Hoʻoulu mai, hoʻoulu mai, ʻo Hauʻoli Mau Loa mākou e September 19th, 2023 Aloha! In March we shared with you that Janis Reischmann would be leaving the Foundation in October 2023--after 15 years of leadership--as a part of a...

Before the Covid-19 Pandemic changed the lives of everyone everywhere, I was content with simply being a mother of two young children, a supportive partner, and working as a bartender while the littles were at school. Then the lockdown...

Aloha! In February 2020, after a healthy discussion about the purpose and the possible impacts, the Foundation’s Board approved a sabbatical of up to six weeks for me. In discussing the rationale for the sabbatical, we...