Hawai`i Community Foundation - Sam Cooke
Original airdate: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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Leaving his community a better place - Sam Cooke today on State of Becoming. He founded The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii and served as its original chairman. He’s chairman of the board of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and raised 30 million dollars for this museum established by his grandmother.
He serves as a board member for countless nonprofits and was named a living treasure of Hawaii. Sam Cooke’s motivation for his accomplishments? He simply wants to leave Hawaii a better place for having lived here. In Manoa Valley, on the property where his grandfather built a Tudor-style mansion sits Kukao’o Heiau, linked to chief Kuali’i.
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