Meet Suzanne: Giving Generously, Facilitating Lasting Positive Change
What if generosity wasn’t just a virtue—but a movement?
What if one person’s quiet courage to give could ripple worldwide and through generations?
Suzanne doesn’t just ask these questions—she lives the answers. She’s not here for the spotlight. She’s here to shine it on others. Quietly powerful, deeply compassionate, and radically authentic, Suzanne makes you believe again—in goodness, in community, in what’s possible, and that true wealth isn’t measured in dollars, but in the lives we uplift.
In 2007, Suzanne founded the Conduit Fund as a charitable tool and a living expression of her belief that strategic generosity can heal, empower, and transform. Since then, the fund has supported more than 50 nonprofits, from food security and housing to youth education and social welfare. One of her favorite initiatives that she created, the Live Aloha Daily Award, encourages students to remain focused on sharing aloha daily—especially through skills they love—building their resilience, creativity, and talent mastery.
A six-time Honolulu Board of REALTORS® Aloha ‘Aina Award winner and the first-ever recipient of the Good Neighbor Award, Suzanne has transformed professional success into purpose-filled service. Now retired from real estate, she devotes herself full-time to giving and encouraging others to live their best life. Her impact reaches far beyond business—it’s in the neighborhoods she strengthens and the young lives she champions. She’s not just giving back, she’s giving forward.
In 2024, Suzanne was inducted into the National Academy of Best-Selling Authors and honored with the Quilly® Award for Mindset Matters, a best-selling book she co-authored with Jack Canfield and global professionals. She brought her breakthrough stories to life even further by recording her audiobook chapter at the legendary Blackbird Studios in 2025, expanding her efforts to advocate wise life choices through multimedia.
As a Producer with Abundance Studios®, Suzanne continues to convey her message of giving through the power of film, partnering with proactive changemakers to tell redemptive, possibility-filled stories that elevate the human spirit.
And still—at her core—Suzanne is a local, Hawai’i person, rooted, and real. Whether she’s performing kanikapila (informal Hawaiian music jam sessions with friends) as a guitarist and singer, hosting tea and flower parties, unabashedly Zumba dancing, or celebrating Hawai’i businesses and nonprofits, she lives the values that shape every part of her journey: generosity, encouragement, integrity, excellence, creativity, and aloha. She doesn’t just serve her community. She’s woven into its heart.
To know Suzanne is to be drawn in—to believe boldly, give wisely, and live abundantly. Her story isn’t only inspiring—it’s an invitation. And it’s not finished. In fact, it’s just beginning.
Will you join her?
🔹 SuzanneNakano@ConduitFund.org
🔹 X: @SuzanneNakano
🔹 YouTube: Conduit Fund