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It’s All AboutYOU Television for Decades: A Legacy for a Lifetime
Hawai‘i Five-0 Creator and Actor Continue to Give, Long After the Credits Roll For television-viewers, “Book ‘em Danno!” conjured up steamy island crime scenes and good prevailing over evil. But here in Hawai‘i, those people weren’t just actors and creators. They became our neighbors, people who put down roots and left a legacy.
The Freeman Sisters – Robin, Susan, and Lisa
When Hawai‘i Five-0 creator Leonard Freeman brought the show to Hawai‘i in
1968, he had no notion of the “It’s our way to keep our parents global impact he’d have nor the close to us and honor their hard legacy he’d leave in his wake. work, their devotion to each Freeman’s daughters — Robin, other, to us, and the islands they Susan, and Lisa — still feel a loved,” the sisters told HCF. deep connection to Hawai‘i and Jack Lord, the original spend much of their Steve McGarrett, and time here. They “It’s our way his wife Marie called established the Hawai‘i home and to keep our Leonard and Rose the Jack Freeman Family parents close established and Marie Lord Funds Fund to benefit to us and at HCF to benefit local artists, with honor…the twelve local charities. some of the first After Jack’s passing islands they grants going to in 1998 and Marie’s the Native Arts loved.” passing in 2005, the and Culture fund received - Freeman sisters Foundation.
the balance of their estate — a gift of over $40 million, one of the largest charitable donations in the country at the time. The legacy of those who found their love for the islands through Hawai‘i Five-0 can be found in organizations ranging from Hawaiian Humane Society to PBS Hawaii — all thanks to the generosity of people who made Hawai‘i their home.
> Did you know: In the past 5 years, HCF has administered over $18 Million in grants to Hawai‘i Island nonprofits
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