Hawaiʻi Workforce Funders Collaborative: From Crisis to Coalition: A 2026 Roadmap for Hawaiʻi’s Generational Workforce Commitment

Report
Written By Diana Hahn
 

Photo credit: Matt Stevens/Hawaiʻi Workforce Funders Collaborative/2025

 

Hawaiʻi Workforce Funders Collaborative
January 2026

Building on HWFC’s 2025 report, From Crisis to Opportunity: Building Hawaiʻi’s Workforce Resilience, this report reviews progress made to date and introduces the Hawaiʻi Generational Workforce Commitment — a cross-sector shared goal that by 2045, all people of Hawaiʻi will have a path to a career that enables them to learn, work, and thrive in Hawaiʻi and contribute to a vibrant economy grounded in community values. To support immediate action, the report also offers policy recommendations, systemic enablers, immediate next steps by sector, and a five-year roadmap to build towards collective commitments that will set the foundation for Hawaiʻi move to achieve this generational goal.

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