Friends of Roosevelt Project Grad
Welcome Friends!
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Raising Cane’s Fundraiser
Fall Break is here!! Take your friends and family to pick up Raising Caneʻs for lunch and/or dinner on Monday, October 5th!
Use code RCFund96 online or let the cashier know at the Ala Moana location!
Thank you for supporting the Class of 2027 Project Grad!
Pizza with a Purpose Fundraiser
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
California Pizza Kitchen Ala Moana Center
Mention “Roosevelt Alumni Foundation (RAF) on your visit to California Pizza Kitchen and they will DONATE 20% OF ALL FOOD AND BEVERAGE SALES on your check to the RAF.
Purchases include dine-in, take-out, catering and online orders at cpk.com when you use the code BACK20% on checkout!
Game Night Fundraiser
Sunday, October 25, 2026
4PM-6PM
(Game Starts at 4:30PM)
Pauoa Elementary School Cafeteria
$25 Ticket Package
Includes: Hawaiian Bento (Kalua Pork, Chicken Long Rice, White Rice, Haupia, & Pineapple), 1 Bottle Water, 1 Lucky Number Ticket, Game Card(s), 1 Marker Pen
Have a fun evening eating and playing with your friends and family while supporting the c/o 2027’s Project Grad!
Purchase tickets at the Webstore!
Class of 2027 Project Grad Fundraiser: UV Golf Umbrella
60″ UV golf umbrella with RHS logo on top in red and gold. Webstore purchases available for pickup at football games: 9/18 RHS vs Nanakuli, 9/25 RHS vs Moanalua, 10/2 RHS vs. Aiea, 10/9 RHS vs Farrington, 10/16 RHS vs. Waipahu (Homecoming). In-person sales also available at the games.
Order your umbrella at the Webstore
Plans for the 2027 Project Grad event are taking shape!
If you are interested in being a part of the 2027 committee, please email rooseveltpg@gmail.com for more information on meetings and how to get involved.
What Is Project Grad?
The Friends of Roosevelt Project Grad is an all-volunteer effort that is committed to providing our graduating seniors a memorable overnight graduation celebration that is 100% drug and alcohol free.
How Do We Do It?
We fund raise in order to underwrite a significant amount of the cost of a fun-filled overnight party at an undisclosed location with food, music and entertainment all night long! In the morning, the graduates are fed breakfast and transported back to a pickup location.
Why Do We Do It?
Because we want to keep our graduating seniors safe and do not want them to experience the heartache of news that a graduate’s life was cut short from binge drinking or an alcohol or drug induced fatal car crash on their graduation night.
After the graduation ceremony, graduates check in at the designated meeting place, surrender all electronic devices (so there’s no following them!), board a bus and are taken to their party site. Once there, parent volunteers monitor all doors throughout the night to ensure there are no uninvited guests or contraband, and no grads leaving the premises without permission.
JOIN US – Together We Can Do It!
All of this is possible when we all roll up our sleeves, pitch in and volunteer to help with the fund raising. So sign up to volunteer, make spam musubis, brownies, cookies, or your own special finger food for our concession stands. Work the concession stand at RHS games and events. Turn out for beach clean ups, sell Zippy’s tickets, support poinsettia sales, and the many other activities that are planned each year to make this project a success. TOGETHER WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
In 1990 Roosevelt High School was the first public high school in the State of Hawaii to organize a Project Grad celebration. Every year since then, except for 2020 due to the COVID pandemic lockdown, we’ve hosted the overnight grad party event.
Project Graduation is a national initiative. Click here for more information.
Wish List
Prizes For Graduates
- Airline tickets or coupons
- Clothing, Jewelry
- Dinner or Restaurant certificates
- DVDs, CDs, Games
- Electronics – Computer, laptop, DVD player, iPod, MP3, Stereo, TV, Xbox 360, Rock Band, etc.
- Gift baskets
- Gift certificates or gift cards
- Golf vouchers
- Hair styling gift certificates or products
- Hotel vouchers
- Plays or Concert tickets
- Spa gift certificates
- Surfboards, Boogie boards, Skateboards
Goodie Bags
- Small items for each student, approximately 250
- Examples:
- Snacks
- Pens, etc.
- Discount Coupons for various items
Office Supplies
- We have an ongoing need for copy paper (any size/color) for flyers, notices and registration packets.
- We’ll take a box, a ream, even left over paper from a project that’s completed.
Calendar
- 9/1-30/2026: Foodland Give Aloha Campaign
- PG to sell items at Home Football games: 9/18 RHS vs Nanakuli, 9/25 RHS vs Moanalua, 10/2 RHS vs. Aiea, 10/9 RHS vs Farrington, 10/16 RHS vs. Waipahu (Homecoming)
- PG to sell items at Home Girls Volleyball games: 9/14 RHS vs Kahuku, 9/23 RHS vs Moanalua, 9/28 RHS vs Kalaheo
- 10/25/2026: Halloween Event, Pauoa Elementary School
- 12/5/2026: Craft Fair, Kawananakoa Middle School Cafeteria
- 2/26/2027: Benefit Concert by Ten Feet, The Benue & The Bay
- 2027 Graduation: Date Pending, May 2027
- 2027 Project Grad: Date & Location Pending
Meeting Schedule
ALL WELCOME: SENIOR PARENTS
…and JUNIOR, SOPHOMORE AND FRESHMEN PARENTS
Project Grad meetings are usually held every 1st Thursday of the month at the Senior Patio from 6:00-7:30pm. Please enter from the entrance on Mott-Smith, to the back of the auditorium.
Please join us!
Please check here to for meeting changes or updates. If you have a question, please e-mail rooseveltpg@gmail.com.
Steering Committee
STEERING COMMITTEE
Shannan Okinishi, Co-Chair
Takemi Nakasone, Co-Chair
Aiko Joto, Secretary
Leila Tamashiro, Treasurer
HONORARY BOARD
Senator Karl Rhoads
Senator Carol Fukunaga
Rep. Della Au Belatti
Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke
Rep. Jenna Takenouchi
Councilmember Tyler Dos Santos-Tam
ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL
Kimberly Fuller, Principal
Candace Aimoto, Vice Principal
Michael Zalopany, Vice Principal
Donna (Lexi) Miles, Vice Principal
Dani Hitt, Vice Principal
Brian Look, Class Advisor
Ivy Kim, Class Advisor
Dayna Kaneshiro, Post High School Counselor
Sara McKay, Post High School Counselor
Leila Tamashiro, Community Liaison
Contact Us
Mail:
Friends of Roosevelt Project Grad
P.O. Box 22473
Honolulu, HI 96823-2473
E-mail:
rooseveltpg@gmail.com
Drop off @ Roosevelt Project Grad Box:
Drop off envelopes or messages in Roosevelt HS Main Office: Project Grad box on the counter to the LEFT of the teachers’ mailboxes or the “Community Liaison mailbox among the teachers’ mailboxes.