Holding the Vision
An Integrated Action Plan for the Next Millennium
DMF believes that a method of involving Maui residents and visitors alike in the process of selecting viable solutions to their cultural, economic and environmental concerns is by educating them, and especially their children, to all of the available alternatives.
501c3 non profit status was applied for and granted in 1991.
Since it's inception, DMF has communicated consistent messages of self-reliance, continuously, through the combining of education and entertainment via live music shows, print and broadcast media.
By this process DMF has created advocates who have grown into activists delivering messages of social concern and self-sufficiency to the community through the political process as candidates.
An 18 year record of providing realistic practical answers to Maui's problems is measurable today by observing politicians who have adopted, as their own, many of the solutions first offered by DMF.
These decades of long effort is verifiable as print, audio and videotape. Executive Director Jason Schwartz has produced over 450 television shows that support the vision and share ideas with local residents and visitors alike.
DMF is leading an ongoing promotion to implement positive economic development in conjunction with human development for a self-reliant Maui and Hawaii as an example for other communities throughout the world !
DreamMakers project addresses these questions:
_ Who will develop ideas and solutions to Maui's problems?
_ What will bring economic diversification/full employment?
_ Where in Hawaii is best to establish demo-projects?
_ When is the right time to begin a program of self-reliance?
_ Why does "synergistics" provide for more opportunities?
_ How can Maui foster a return to non-polluting natural systems of energy and food production employed by earlier cultures?
We address all of the above questions by specifically identifying the technologies and products that are economically, ecologically, locally feasible and inexhaustible.
This plan will greatly stimulate tourism and create many new jobs.
Actualization of DMF's Economic, Cultural and Social missions are linked to the successful securing of grant funding and the availability of donations, gifts in kind and corporate sponsorship contributions.
People Aligned in Positive Action - PAPA, through contributions, will provide the initial funding to MAMA for art and music shows. Maui Arts & Music Association - MAMA, in turn, will produce and profitably market shows and products to fund The Energy Exchange. The Energy Exchange Maui - TEEM, by investing in developing sustainable technology will sell solutions and return profits to PAPA.
PAPA provides, MAMA entertains, The Energy Exchange develops, manufactures, exports goods and re-invests profits in the process.
D R E A M M A K E R S F O U N D A T I O N
Integrated Action Plan for this Millennium
HOW DMF'S PLAN WILL MEET COMMUNITY NEEDS
DreamMakers Foundation has three component organizations: MAMA, PAPA and The Energy Exchange Maui which were designed to meet vital community needs and culminate in a renewable energy technology export industry and positive eco-tourism.
DEVELOPMENT
PLAN
FOR MAUI
PAPA, MAMA & TEEM
People Aligned in Positive Action (PAPA)
Economic Mission: PAPA will meet Maui's employment needs by offering a plan to develop a diversified economy.Grants - Initial financial support to PAPA will enable a transition from volunteer to paid professional staff to effectively administer funding to promote cultural events, market art, music, health related products, as well as energy products and projects.
Maui Arts & Music Association (MAMA)
Cultural Mission: MAMA will meet musician, performing and fine artists needs for exposure to larger markets.
*Donor's Initial financial support to MAMA will be used to produce revenue generating events and products, which in turn will benefit all aspects of the arts on Maui, while providing income to fund renewable and sustainable energy projects.
Social Mission: TEEM's plan will significantly lower the REAL cost of Power and move Maui closer towards self-reliance. Corporate Sponsors: Initial financial support from MAMA to The Energy Exchange will permit installation of proto-typical alternative energy systems as demo-projects that will reduce, and eventually eliminate, our reliance on fossil fuels and other pollutants that degrade our islands. The marketing of these devices and products can effectively create a technology "export" from Hawaii to the world!
DMF IS UNIQUELY POSITIONED TO SELL DREAMS
Support will be solicited from CEO's of many like thinking organizations that are known by the community and will align naturally with the Foundations goals.
These include the following: Philanthropic Groups, appropriate socially conscious Corporate Sponsors, as well as Environmental Groups, Individuals Energy Experts, the Entertainment Industry; Movie, Television, Record Companies, Recording Artists; Visual Artists, Art Galleries, Book Publishers, Advertising, Marketing Agencies and Political Servants.
* In-kind donations- performances of local Stars and Emerging Talents through a "MAMA: Master + Apprentice Mentoring Program" will make these cultural events viable and profitable!
MAMA, PAPA & TEEM:
The RIGHT STUFF for Maui
DMF's decade long track record of individual talent development social and cultural involvement demonstrates the ability of the foundation and its components to reach each goal that is set.
OBJECTIVES FOR THIS NEW MILLENNIUM
DMF's plan focuses on transforming Maui into an example place of cooperation and self-reliance by the formation of strategic alliances of the Visual, Performing and Healing Arts, Culture, Human and Economic Development agencies provided for by funds generated from the sale of art, music and energy products.
PLAN OF ACTION & PROJECT TIMELINE
YEAR ONE Objective
Phase 1: Solicit grants / donor commitments and financial support of corporate sponsors, management and record labels to produce the Celebration of Life: Self-Reliance Self Sustainability Annual Conference/Symposium and the Aloha Aina Music Festival "live from Maui" broadcast globally.
Phase 2: Acquire commitments from artist management companies for these Hawaii-connected personalities
Phase 3: Assemble a team to solicit sponsorship for the production of the Concert Series, Conference/Symposium, Fair & Festival as annual events.
YEAR TWO Objectives
Phase 1: Create enthusiasm by initiating a weekly series of high quality local music and art events at restaurants, clubs, fairs and quarterly concerts at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
Phase 2: Acquire funding to produce Music Video's / CDs.
Phase 3: Acquire sponsor group support from corporations, hotel general managers, mainland and Honolulu ad agencies, art galleries, wedding planners, activity, airline and telephone companies. Also land developers, individuals and others wanting increased visitor counts, plus all of the renewable technology developers that wish to showcase their solutions to the media.
Phase 4: Acquire support from the Chamber of Commerce, the Hotel Association, Airlines and Visitors Bureaus to market the week long Fair & Music Festival through their existing channels.
Phase 5: Market, advertise and produce the events for profitable sales in July. Package CD/Videos/Specialty Items for post event sales.
YEAR THREE Objectives
Phase 1: The Energy Exchange will utilize the funds provided to create a renewable energy demonstration project.
Phase 2: Showcase the Energy Fair and Music Festival, through TV broadcasts viable product technology installations. At the same time viewers will also be seeing the powerful images of an ecologically and economically healed and fully employed Maui.
Phase 3: By tailoring and duplicating the above process, we'll possess exportable solutions that are financially profitable.
Near Term Goals
First Goal:
To attract and develop teams to generate and maintain funding, communicate and manage marketing activities.
THIS IS ALREADY HERE. WE HAVE A PROJECTED ALLIANCE WITH GAVIOTAS & ZERI, PAOLO & GUNTER.
Second Goal: To develop and transform an unfunded grassroots effort into a fully supported program that reaches the world through media with messages about self-reliance. CONCURRENTLY, initiate the reforestation plan and continue a media effort to assure continued funding of everything thru global contributions and product purchase.
Third Goal: To create income streams from products produced from concerts: CD's and Videos directing "Royalties" to help support the continuation of the DMF, PAPA, MAMA, The Energy Exchange and benefit participating communities countrywide.
PERSONAL
Political candidate interview shows broadcast daily since the primary elections to every cable subscribing home by Akaku: Maui Community Television. This plan provides for DMF producers, camera operators, editors and crew members to transition from volunteer to paid positions.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
These following industries will employ hundreds, perhaps thousands on Maui resulting in economic recovery: Entertainment, tourism, aqua-culture, hydroponics, diversified agriculture, water conservation including solar desalination, non-electric wells and catchment systems. Renewable technologies include: biomass, hydrogen fuel cells, geothermal, photo voltaic, solar thermal and wind and thermoacoustics. Also promising is solar electric light rail, auto/truck conversions from fossil fuel to hybrid hydroelectric systems.
The scope of our plan is quite significant.
In this summary, we did not include projected fundraising through monies gifted to thousands of non-profits, in fact, creating an environmental-economic model that promotes the benefits of giving and receiving AT THE SAME TIME through private income opportunity for community members as well.
Our goal is to link up individuals and non-profit companies, all making money AND helping us at Dream Makers Foundation towards our goals:
Our primary originally charted purpose is to promote the arts, music and cultures of the islands and through that promotion, create "sales" that inflow money to us to be used for the necessary research and development AND IMPLEMENTATION of important environmental programs and products,
to establish a major renewable energy demonstration project using CUTTING EDGE technologies HERE in Maui, thereby creating jobs through the process for the peoples of Maui AND for the peoples of the world, by actualizing a continued "real" paradise
...a perfect marriage of vision for a brighter future.
WHO DREAMMAKERS
WILL SERVE
The People - Programs developed by "market synergy" in coordination with MCC, MRTP, MCAC will educate and train people to think, design, manufacture, install, entertain, teach, heal, build and above all... aspire to new heights.
The Community - Job creation to meet DMF's planned conversions to alternative technology manufactured on Maui is primary. (Two products currently being developed on the Island - Waste to Energy Bioconverters and Solar Thermoacoustic Cooler/Dryers and Solar Co-generator Concentrators, with their free, viable, non-polluting energy generation and refrigeration.)
Cultural / Art Talent- Members of Maui's art, music and cultural scene will appreciate a unique mentor / apprentice program that recognizes the ability of our resident established stars to help gain exposure for our emerging talents.
National - Market demographics in the U.S. identify 44 million, as "cultural creatives" likely to purchase CD's/videos containing powerful messages about preservation of the Aina and the concept of self-reliance through renewable technologies.
International -DMF ís tourism proposal links entertainment, the environment and energy into a unified promotion that will enhance export sales of renewable technologies worldwide. The Environment. Presenting Maui as a progressive and self-reliant destination is a powerful message of hope to all of the communityís in the world that are seeking to be free of the imports that are keeping them financially enslaved and dependent.
DMF LIFESTYLE ENVISIONED
There must be harmony between the earth and our hearts in the self-reliant society that we are striving to develop. Jason Schwartz - Maui 1991 A society with a somewhat bottom up grassroots orientation may be the way to lovingly guide Maui towards a natural and sustainable future, preventing our communities from becoming like most other cities.
Community - WHAT IF, we create small empowered communities that are self-governing in regard to energy generation with the ability to determine appropriate land use and codes based upon district votes. DMF and district elected officials would conduct timely charettes to establish community ideals that once agreed upon would be forwarded to the county council for planning approvals and implementation.
Education - WHAT IF, we provide plans for a two year capstone Maui University that is a self-contained community designed to be eco and energy sensitive with an ìohanaî vision, becoming a new kind of campus that integrates family housing and service centers. (A study of projects such as Gaviotas and Paolo Solari's Cosanti could provide a preliminary model for the design of new kinds of future community projects that would incorporate the concept of village clusters with renewable technologies.)
Humanism - WHAT IF, we provide health care based upon a precept of social consciousness and a concern for others in need. Can this lead to Senior Villages and Healing Centers that are dedicated to Life Extension / Rejuvenation Centers for body, mind and spirit.
Social Cooperation - WHAT IF, public and private organic gardens supply island grown fruits and vegetables to our markets at prices that are competitive... for local consumption... supplemented by imports.
Common Sense - WHAT IF, we meet local needs first: like water conservation, diversifying agriculture, by building intelligently, end cane crops/burning and move away from pollutants and fossil fuels. We CAN develop a life in harmony AND, the process must begin now. Knowing the world is competitive, not cooperative, we must guard Maui against becoming another player in an apocalyptic resource war through an intelligent transformation from what is already here. FURTHERMORE, REFORESTATION EFFORTS WILL BE A GLOBAL EXAMPLE WHICH CAN BE SEEN UP CLOSE IN MAUI, WHERE GAVIOTAS HAS BEEN HAMPERED IN THIS REGARD BECAUSE OF ITS LOCATION IN COLOMBIA.
D M F A G E N D A
First, WE MUST foster solidarity by promoting the vision's benefits.
Second, WE MUST bring an awareness to those who are in a position to provide the funds that are necessary for us to begin.
Third, WE MUST win them to the vision of making Maui An Isle of Hope by appealing to their spiritual nature and better selves.
Fourth, WE MUST divert the self-destructive course which we are currently on to one of self-reliance, or all we value will be lost.
Fifth, WE MUST protect the integrity of the vision as the plan spreads from Hawaii, globally... and because it is noble... God will bless it.
The vision statement - HOLDING THE VISION
VIEWPOINT in our Quarterly Program Guide
For questions and clarifications and more,contact: MAMAmaui@DreamMaui.com
DreamMakers Foundation - DMF
Maui Arts & Music Association - MAMA
People Aligned in Positive Action - PAPA
808-874-5900
fax 808-442-0092P.O. BOX 791540 - PMB 208
Paia, Maui HI 96779