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It’s All AboutYOU Television for Decades: A Legacy for a Lifetime Hawai‘i Five-0 Continues 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 close to us and honor their hard global impact he’d have nor the work, their devotion to each legacy he’d leave in his wake. other, to us, and the islands they Freeman’s daughters — Robin, loved,” the sisters told HCF. Susan, and Lisa — still feel a Jack Lord, the original Steve deep connection to Hawai‘i McGarrett, and his and spend much wife Marie called of their time here. “ It’s our way Hawai‘i home and They established established the Jack to keep our a fund to benefit Marie Lord Funds local artists, with parents close and at HCF to benefit some of the first to us and twelve local charities. grants going to honor…the After Jack’s passing the Native Arts in 1998 and Marie’s islands they and Culture passing in 2005, Foundation. “It’s loved.” the fund received our way to keep the balance - Freeman sisters our parents
of their estate — a gift of over $40 million, one of the largest charitable donations in the country at the time. The Hawai‘i Five-0 legacy carries on through organizations ranging from the Humane Society to the Waimea Preservation Association to public television programming — 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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