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family business office (organization that manages investments and trusts for a single wealthy family)
A family office is a private company that manages investments and trusts for a single wealthy family. The company's financial capital is the family's own wealth, often accumulated over many family generations. Traditional family offices provide personal services such as managing household staff and making travel arrangements. Other services typically handled by the traditional family office include property management, day-to-day accounting and payroll activities, and management of legal affairs. A family office can cost over $1 million to operate, so the family's net worth usually exceeds $500 million. Recently, some family offices have accepted non-family members.

The first noteworthy family offices in the United States were formed during the late 19th and early 20th century as a result of the tremendous wealth created during the Industrial Revolution. Four of the most well known of these are the Robert Pitcairn, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Phipps and Andrew Carnegie families, who made their fortunes in railroads, glass, oil, and steel, respectively.

More recently the term "family office" or multi family office is used to refer primarily to financial services for relatively wealthy families.

Traditional and modern usage
A traditional family office is a business run by and for a single family. Its sole function is to centralize the management of a significant family fortune. Typically, these organizations employ staff to manage investments, taxes, philanthropic giving, trusts, and legal matters. The purpose the family office is to effectively transfer established wealth across generations.

More recently, the family office is not a separate company. The family office invests the family's money, manages all of the family's assets, and disburses payments to family members as required. The office itself operates just like a corporation, with a president, CFO, CIO, etc. and a support staff. The officers are compensated as per an arrangement with the family, usually with overrides based on the profits or capital gains generated by the office. Often, family offices are built around direct real estate or equity investment, professionally managing a large portfolio of real estate or stocks, often both. In addition, a more aggressive and well-capitalized office may be engaged in private equity placement, venture capital opportunities, and real estate development.

FBOH Faith Based Organization Home

In the United States of America, the term faith-based is used to describe organizations that are religious in nature and distinguish those organizations from government, public or private secular organizations.

History
In recent years the term has come into public use as an abbreviation of "faith-based initiative", e.g. U.S. President George W. Bush's proposal to grant religious charitable social-service groups federal money via the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. "Faith-based" is often used as a euphemism for "religious" in this context, in order to avoid the thorny issue of whether such funding is permissible under the Establishment Clause.

Applications

Charities
Funding for faith-based organizations in the U.S. centers around several signature initiatives including the Compassion Capital fund, an initiative designed to strengthen the role faith-based organizations play in human services; Mentoring Children of Prisoners, an initiative focused on supporting the children of incarcerated adults; Access to Recovery, which focuses in increasing the availability of drug and alcohol treatment programs and the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative which focuses on helping individuals returning from prison to successfully re-integrate themselves back into society. In providing these grants to faith-based groups, the Federal Government has also set up a comprehensive set of supports for groups who are interested in applying for these resources.

A faith-based organization, a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and U.S. to describe a particular niche within the Voluntary Sector. Generally, but by no means exclusively, a faith-based organization will be philanthropic in nature, constituted as a charity or non-profit, and aligned with one of the world's major religions. For many years faith-based organizations have played major roles in society, delivering a variety of services to the public, such as caring for the infirm and elderly, advocating justice for the oppressed and playing a major role as NGO's in humanitarian aid and international development efforts.

Faith-based organizations range in size from the small church who serves food to the homeless like Victory Family to huge like well organized entities such as Catholic Charities USA. Catholic Charities USA has been in existence for many years and provide a variety of services to communities across the U.S. Catholic Charities describes itself as one of the U.S.’s largest social service networks focusing on issues such as poverty, family support and community empowerment.

According to Science and Theology News, “For all their controversy, faith-based groups are nothing new. Since the late 18th century, from a period known as the Second Awakening, there have been numerous voluntary civic associations loosely connected with faith groups. They included the Connecticut Missionary Society, formed in 1798, and the American Home Missionary Society, formed in New York in 1826.”

Other applications
The terms "faith-based", or "faith-based community", can also be used as a term to describe a perceived style of, or trend in, politics, which is broadly opposed to the reality-based approach. Faith-based politics typically supports faith-based initiatives, without siding with any particular faith, and is skeptical of some areas of scientific concern, such as evolution and anthropogenic global warming

FBOH First Bank of Hawaii

Bank of Hawaii, a subsidiary of Bank of Hawaii Corporation (NYSE: BOH), is a regional commercial bank headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is Hawaii's second oldest bank and its largest locally owned bank in that majority of the voting stockholders reside within the state. Bank of Hawaii has the most accounts, customers, branches, and ATM's of any financial institution in the state (although BancWest's First Hawaiian Bank holds a greater number of dollars in deposits).

History
1897 Bishop Trust is established; this will become Bank of Hawaii (BoH).
1903 BoH opened its first branch, on Kauai.
1930 BoH acquired and absorbed Bank of Maui.
1959 BoH opened its first Pacific Islands branch on Kwajalein.
1961 BoH opened a branch on Pulau and another on Guam.
1969 BoH absorbed Bank of American Samoa, which the Navy had established in 1914. In the same year BoH and Crédit Lyonnais jointly established Banque de Tahiti.
1970 BoH established a branch on Yap. Branches on Ponape and Kosrae followed in subsequent years.
1971 BoH reorganized as a bank holding company, Hawaii Bancorporation, and also established a branch on Saipan.
1974 BoH and Crédit Lyonnais established another joint-venture, Banque de Nouvelle Calédonie in Noumea.
1979 Hawaii Bancorporation changed its name to Bancorp Hawaii.
1980 BoH opened branch in Tokyo.
1985 BoH merged with Hawaiian Trust Company.
1989 BoH bought First National Bank of Arizona, which represented its first move onto the mainland.
1990 BoH acquired FirstFed America, a holding company for banks in Hawaii and on Guam.
1993 BoH acquired Banque Indosuez’s interest in Banque d’Hawaii (Vanuatu).
1994 BoH acquired Commonwealth Bank of Australia's shares in National Bank of Solomon Islands.
1996 BoH acquired most of Crédit Lyonnais' holdings and attained a 91% ownership in Banque de Nouvelle Calédonie. BoH also opened its first branch in Fiji, in Suva.
1997 Bancorp Hawaii changed its name to Pacific Century Financial Corporation (PCFC). Banque de Nouvelle Calédonie changed its name to Bank of Hawaii—Nouvelle Calédonie. BoH also purchased Banque Indosuez Nuigini Ltd in Papua New Guinea from Banque Indosuez and renamed it Bank of Hawaii (PNG) Ltd. In addition to its main office in Port Moresby, Bank of Hawaii (PNG) also had an office in Lae, PNG’s second port city on the north-east coast. Indosuez Nuigini was established in 1983 with 49% Indosuez participation, 41.5% Bank of Papua New Guinea, and the remainder public. PCFC acquired California United Bank. Other Pacific Century subsidiaries included First Federal Savings and Loan Association of America (in Hawaii-later merged into BoH), and Pacific Century Bank and Pacific Century Savings in Arizona.
1998 BoH bought 5.4mn convertible notes of Bank of Queensland as part of a strategic alliance. It also acquired 100% of Banque Paribas Pacifique (est. 1972; 3 branches) and 70% of Banque Paribas Polynésie (est. 1984; 1 branch). BoH integrated the operations in with Bank of Hawaii-Nouvelle Calédonie and Banque de Tahiti, respectively. PCFC merged its two mainland subsidiaries, California United Bank and Pacific Century Bank (in Arizona) into one nationally chartered entity, Pacific Century Bank, headquartered in California.
1999 BoH bought 5.8mn shares (approx. 10%) in Bank of Queensland. It also bought First Federal Savings and Loan from its own holding company.
2000 PCFC’s subsidiary, Pacific Century Bank, sold its nine branches in Arizona to Zions Bancorporation for merger into Zions' subsidiary, National Bank of Arizona.
2001 BoH sold its 6.2mn shares and 5.4mn convertible notes in Bank of Queensland. The decision reflected PCFC's of a new Strategic Plan, which mandated a focus on the bank’s core markets in Hawaii, the West Pacific, American Samoa and Japan. PCFC sold its Pacific Century Bank (PCB) subsidiary to U.S. Bancorp. The subsidiary had 20 branches in Southern California. BoH sold its shareholding in the Bank of Tonga and Pacific Commercial Bank of Samoa to Westpac. BoH and Westpac both had 30% interests in Bank of Tonga and 42% interests in Pacific Commercial Bank. BoH sold its operations in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Fiji to ANZ. BoH sold its approximately 95% share interest in its French Polynesia and New Caledonia operations to France-based Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne (CNCE). Its operations in French Polynesia included 17 branches of its subsidiary, Banque de Tahiti, and about 265 employees. Its operations in New Caledonia included eight branches of subsidiary Bank of Hawaii-Nouvelle Caledonie and about 190 employees. Lastly, BoH closed its offices in Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei.
2002 Unable to find a a buyer, BoH closed its Majuro branch in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and its three branches in Pohnpei, Yap and Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). BoH turned over its 51% interest in National Bank of Solomon Islands to the government of the Solomon Islands. Lastly, Pacific Century Financial reverted to the Bank of Hawaii name.

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