Seminars offered on laws for nonprofits
Faith-based organizations that offer programs for homeless people on Oahu may get free advice on the laws that affect them at a series of workshops opening Aug. 6."Employment Law for Nonprofits" is the subject of the first seminar from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 6.
The series offered by Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii will continue with sessions:
» Aug. 19, 8:30 a.m. to noon, "Nonprofit accountability."
» Sept. 2, 8:30 a.m. to noon, "Critical Collaboration."
» Sept. 2, 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., "Passion and Practicality."
Advance registration is required and may be made at www.vlsh.org/HOMES or by calling 522-1858.
The seminars are offered under the agency's Higher Organizational Management Effectiveness and Sustainability project, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Mormon settlements in isles is lecture topic
A Brigham Young University history professor will lecture on the first Mormon settlements in Hawaii next week at Bishop Museum.Fred Woods will speak at noon Monday in Paki Conference Room 2 on the first Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionaries who arrived on Lanai in 1850. His lecture at noon Tuesday will be about the establishment of the Mormon settlement at Laie in 1864.
Woods, who teaches church history at BYU in Provo, Utah, is teaching an Old Testament class at BYU-Hawaii this summer. He compiled first-person immigrant accounts from voyages between 1840-90, which the church published on CD as the "Mormon Immigration Index" in 2000. He is executive director of the nonprofit Mormon Historic Sites Foundation.
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