Alexander & Baldwin Aloha Airlines Atherton Foundation Bank of Hawaii Charitable Foundation Bretzlaff Foundation Cooke Family Foundation Earl and Margery Chapman Foundation Foodland Supermarket, Ltd. Frear Elemosynary Trust

Hawaii Hotel Foundation Hawaii Justice Foundation James T. Pettus Foundation Shamandas Watumull Fund McInerny Foundation National Association for Community Mediation NFL Charities Teresa Hughes Trust Verizon Foundation

Contracts

To support and promote the quick and less costly resolution of conflicts through mediation, various departments and agencies negotiate contracts with The Mediation Center including:

• Department of Education - Special Education mediations
  
• Hawaii Real Estate Commission - Condominium mediations
  
• Regulated Industries Complaints Office (RICO) - Consumer-Merchant mediations

Memberships

A membership drive is conducted annually, to raise community awareness about the important role The Mediation Center plays in Oahu's communities and to increase financial support the Community Mediation Program. See within our annual report for a list of current members, contributors and supporters.

Fee for Service Programs

Training
The Mediation Center Training Program includes two arms.  One arm offers free or low cost training for Oahu's low-income population, community groups and nonprofit organizations. The other arm is the fee-producing arm that generates income through outside trainings offered to the public, businesses and the military throughout Hawaii and the Pacific.

The outside training services have been expanded to meet the increased awareness and desire of people to develop dispute resolution skills for their own purposes and to strengthen The Mediation Center's financial base to better serve the community.  All proceeds from the program directly benefit and support The Mediation Center's nonprofit activities.

Business Mediation Program
To support the growth and use of mediation and other dispute resolution processes in the workplace, The Mediation Center offers two services through its Business Mediation Program including 1. specialized panels of facilitators and mediators to provide direct service and 2. custom dispute resolution packages designed to meet the specific needs of a business or company.

Through ACCESS ADR (Affordable and Accessible Dispute Resolution Options), The Mediation Center maintains a separate panel of mediators and facilitators who may be selected on a case-by-case basis by clients who are willing to pay a fee for the services. The panels were created in response to requests from clients who wanted access to low-cost services with the option of reviewing the background and selecting the dispute resolution professional to meet their specific needs.

The Mediation Center also offers Customized Dispute Resolution Systems for businesses, institutions and governmental agencies that are interested in creating a total culture of conflict resolution in the workplace. Through an initial analysis of a company, The Mediation Center staff designs a Customized Plan to meet the specific needs of the company such as training in conflict resolution, facilitation and/or mediation, and developing in-house or out-side mediation.