2025 Social Impact Report
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Cancer has touched so many families. The Kauaʻi FCU team 
decided to do something about that.
What began as a Pop Up for a Purpose thrift sale grew into 
months of sustained, staff-driven fundraising for the American 
Cancer Society. Across three separate sale events held at Kauaʻi 
FCU branches and Kalukalu at 1624, staff organized thrift sales 
stocked entirely from their own closets and bake sales made 
entirely from their own kitchens. No vendor was hired. No 
outside organization coordinated it. Every item donated, every 
good baked, and every dollar raised came directly from the 
Kauaʻi FCU ʻohana.
The summer culminated at Relay for Life, where the team 
showed up under the theme "Rolling into Remission," setting 
up a booth, engaging with attendees, and carrying the energy 
of everything they had already done across the previous 
months into one final night of community and remembrance. 
Ahead of the event, branches sold luminaria bags hand-
decorated by staff and members. When the annual luminaria 
ceremony arrived, and those bags were lit, each one carrying 
the name of someone loved, someone lost, someone still 
fighting. It was the quiet, powerful conclusion to a summer 
that had been building toward exactly that moment.
KAUA‘I FCU RAISES $5K 
FOR THE CANCER SOCIETY 
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