We champion all people, particularly under-served youth, to discover their unique strengths and the confidence to proactivity engage in making interests and dreams into reality. We seek to empower all people irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, socio-economic, life circumstance or any other factor. See our Diversity Plan »

Key education expertise employed in our programs include STEM/STEAM, Project-Based Learning, Social-Emotional Learning, Hawaii’s HA-BREATH, Learning Management Systems and Soft Skills development and assessment.

We champion creativity, including the arts of inspiration, innovation, design-thinking, communication arts and entrepreneurship to turn ideas into action. “Innovation” and “entrepreneurship” to us means creating market-ready outcomes that yield measurable value.

We’re known for story-based design thinking, project-based learning and “hackathons” (innovation challenge events) that include leadership, team-building, collaboration, business modeling, financial forecasting, branding, goal setting and more. See our Programs »

We foster visioning of social venture enterprises that are economically sustainable, yet strive for true legacy as social ventures that help society beyond mere productization and profit.

Our nonprofit is unique in that it has received years of grant funding support to develop software applications.

This is possible as our founders include technologists that donate service and license support from their for-profit software developmetn firm, SaaS Ventures. We take great care to ensure that benefits flow only from SaaS Ventures to ID8 and never the obverse.

ID8 also enjoys use of SaaS Ventures’ SaaS Microservices Platform as well as access to an offshore development team.