Goals and Activities

The strategic positioning goal of the Commission on Human Concerns is to be a catalyst and channel of communication, engaging the interfaith community in concern for social and human conditions that contravene accepted ethical and moral values e.g. poverty and violence.

• Responsible for engaging the interfaith community in social justice activities, and acting as a catalyst and channel of communication to or for other individuals and agencies promoting the well-being of all people in Honolulu and the State of Hawai‘i.
• Be concerned for social and human conditions that contravene accepted ethical and moral values, such as, homeless, wages, housing, crime, violence, and poverty.

Recent Action Items: Homelessness, Marriage Equality, Crime, Participating in the Forum on Economics of Jobs & Justice in the Current Economic Crisis, with economist Dr. Lawrence Bill Boyd of CLEAR (Center for Labor Education and Research, UH West Oahu).

Membership is open.