The Filipino Community Center, Inc. is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (EIN 99-0305884). Our Mission
The mission of FilCom is to develop, own, and operate a community center that provides social, economic and education services and to promote and perpetuate Filipino culture and customs in the State of Hawaii
The FilCom Center was formally inaugurated
in June, 2002, almost a century after the first 15 Filipino farmers sailed for Hawai‘i on board the SS Doric in 1906, which legitimized the Filipino migration to the western hemisphere. Sprawling over two acres by the old Oahu Sugar Mill on suburban Waipahu, the three-story Filipino Community Center covers 50,000 square feet. It is the biggest Filipino Community Center in the United States and outside of the Philippines. It is also architecturally designed to repeat the Filipino’s penchant for Spanish inspired buildings. And although it is in every aspect Filipino, it is also multi-cultural in that the renters, guests and four caterers belong to different ethnic origins. It is a building built on Filipino pride and bayanihan spirit and yet still retains enough spirit of aloha to everyone who wants to work, rent, learn and enjoy the daily activities without regard to ethnicity. On March 18, 2000, a ground breaking ceremony took place.
