09/08/2026
We're finalists in two categories at the 2026 Pacific Edge Magazine Business Achievement Awards, and it still feels a little surreal. 💜
🏆 Non-Profit Impact
🏆 Women of the Year, honoring our CEO & Executive Director, Toni Muranaka
Toni's first 18 months here brought real growth and visibility to Hawaiʻi's epilepsy community. In that time, twelve new programs and initiatives took shape. Here's what that looked like:
💜 Epilep-See™: an original card game that makes learning about epilepsy, seizure safety and common myths actually fun.
⛳ Drive Out Epilepsy: a family-friendly driving range event using golf to take a swing at stigma.
📣 Ammon's Horn: a physician session bringing medical pros together to advance epilepsy care.
🔥 Wall of Flame: a storytelling project sharing the faces and stories of people living with epilepsy.
🤝 E-Kōkua Club: connection and belonging for people affected by epilepsy.
📱 Create Community: an app linking adults with epilepsy, newly diagnosed folks and caregivers through support groups.
🪨 EFH Rocks: painted epilepsy-themed rocks hidden around the community to spark conversation.
🛍️ Connection Collection Store: mission-driven products that make epilepsy visible. Next up, a lunch bag built with medication storage in mind.
🌺 The Sophia Collection: everyday items reimagined as conversation starters for awareness.
📞 National Epilepsy Helpline – Hawaiʻi Team: local staff answering the national helpline for families here and beyond our islands.
🏫 Seizure First Aid & statewide outreach: seizure recognition and first-aid training for schools, orgs and communities across Hawaiʻi.
✈️ Seizure Safe Skies: our newest initiative, focused on seizure awareness and emergency prep in air travel.
Twelve programs, one purpose: make epilepsy visible, start conversations, and stop the stigma.
Mahalo to Pacific Edge Magazine for seeing the work, and to our board, staff, volunteers, sponsors, partners and epilepsy ʻohana who make all of it possible. Toni's the first to say no one builds this alone.
If you've run into any of these around the islands, tell us. We love hearing it.