And The Week Goes On

It’s the end of the WEEK but more to come….
Brook Gramann to Honolulu Weekly: Honolulu Weekly and the little non-profit that Could (or apparently couldn't). Hawaii People's Fund named Best Non- Profit in first draft of Best Of issue. Advised to put mahalo ad in - they did- then they are removed as Best non-profit and... NO non profit named. Come on- maybe should've given them a chance to at least remove the ad if the votes ended up not counting for anything?

Honolulu Weekly to Brook Gramann: Brook,I honestly hope people are a little more forgiving when you make a mistake. Someone in the office with no role in tabulating the Best of Honolulu vote grabbed an intern's work-in-progress document, based on a preliminary count of only some of our votes, out of the printer, got excited, and sold an ad based on incorrect information. That person made a mistake and feels absolutely awful about it. We all do. It's terribly embarrassing for everyone, and it has substantially spoiled a project into which a lot of people, in and outside of the paper, put a lot of time and effort. We apologized, the money was refunded, and we will work to repair the damage done. I cannot imagine why you would think Honolulu Weekly is engaged in a conspiracy against a non-profit organization we respect and admire, nor what good you think will come of this.

Brook Gramann to Honolulu Weekly :Ragnar- I do think people deserve to see your response to me because I posted the question, issue. This is not about a conspiracy theory- that's ridiculous- but it is about the decision to remove a non profit that is very deserving and who obviously received the most votes but for some reason was not deemed worthy to receive Best of. This is made clear with the commentary in that section (below)- completely unnecessary- and where the implication is that the Weekly chose not to reveal the winner because few residents had heard of them? That's exactly why they should have been included. No conspiracy- just a very bad decision made worse with the unnecessary commentary and their mahalo ad running in this context.Instead of naming the organization with the most votes – this ran

“Oh irony: the non profit category was host to the most funny business of any we asked about this year. The winning organization was one few residents had ever heard of, as were several close runners up. in lieu of declaring a winner, we prefer to direct you to our 2009 sustainability guide, where we offer a long list of worthy, underfunded groups that are desperate for your kokua and your support.”

Email question to Brook GramannReply from editor "The Weekly deeply regrets this mistake and is working to revise its processes so that it does not happen again." Brook - how do you feel about it all?

Brook GramannFunny as it was the Weekly who made the implication that the ballot boxes are stuffed- in their own publication. Apparently the non profit category was not stuffed enough! If this little incident causes them to review their processes that's great.
Weekly ran this in place of Hawaii People's Fund receiving the most votes: Oh irony: the non profit ... Read More category was host to the most funny business of any we asked about this year. The winning organization was one few residents had ever heard of, as were several close runners up. in lieu of declaring a winner, we prefer to direct you to our 2009 sustainability guide, where we offer a long list of worthy, underfunded groups that are desperate for your kokua and your support.

go to http://www.changenotcharity.org/ to learn more about Hawai`i People's Fund.