2023
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Kalauokekahuli encourages the healthy growth of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander families by supporting and enhancing the well-being of birthing people, parents, and their infants with holistic, multi-generational, and culturally-rooted care regardless of socioeconomic privilege. They offer free, inclusive ko'okua education, care, and support during the perinatal period, breathing ea into the lifeways of ʻohana…
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Pōhaku Pelemaka‘s mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the intrinsic qualities and heritage of lower Puna, Native Hawaiian wellbeing, and the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and practices in partnership with 'ohana, government, public, and private sectors. A Native Hawaiian–led hui stewarding culturally and environmentally significant lands in Puna makai, their programming restores pilina between…
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Waipahu Safe Haven provides holistic programs and language accessible services for Hawai'iʻs growing Micronesian community, enabling individuals to attain success through empowering children and families to be self-sustaining, positive contributors in community. Their work addresses language access barriers, limited knowledge of community rights, and creates pathways to access services by training bilingual community leaders to…
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ʻAha Wāhine Kūhinapapa builds capacity among Kanaka Maoli women to strengthen families, community, and the lāhui. Through bi-monthly webinars and in-person convenings, they create strength-based, culturally-rooted safe spaces to provide opportunities for transformation and healing, identify barriers to optimal wellbeing, and build community. Haumea Conversations is a full day gathering that includes experiential learning, ʻai pono nourishment, and…
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Hui Iwi Kuamo'o actively restores and maintains the Native Hawaiian ancestral foundation by assisting families to resume the kuleana (duty, responsibility) to care for the ancestors. huiiwikuamoo.com
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Kīpuka Kuleana's mission is to perpetuate kuleana, ahupua'a-based natural resource management, and connection to place through protection of cultural landscapes and family lands on Kaua'i. Through land protection strategies, descendant-led stewardship, youth education, and policy advocacy, they challenge ongoing land dispossession and keep ʻāina in community hands, restoring Hawaiian models of collective caretaking of ʻāina…
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Nā Moku Aupuni o Ko'olau Hui is dedicated to protecting Mauiʻs natural resources, preserving cultural heritage, and empowering communities, work deeply rooted in Hawaiian values, mālama 'āina, and upholding the traditions of our ancestors. Guided by Hawaiian values and a mauka‑to‑makai stewardship approach, they engage in water advocacy, loʻi and ʻauwai restoration, Makai Watch monitoring,…
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Honua Scholars' mission is to highlight Native Hawaiian value-based STEM practices, inspiring individuals from any background to facilitate a relationship between their career, their culture, and their community. With many of their Kanaka Maoli membership currently living in diaspora pursuing STEM degrees, the array of programming they host, including mentoring sessions, seminars, essay competitions, and…
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Pu'uhonua Society cultivates space(s) where Native Hawaiian and Hawaiʻi-based artists, cultural practitioners, and those rooted in the archipelago can continue creative practices for the collective transformation of Hawaiʻi. For over 50 years, they've worked to preserve and uplift Native Hawaiian culture while supporting artists and practitioners rooted in Hawai'i by supporting basic needs through direct-to-artist…
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Kaiāulu o Kahalu'u commits to mālama (care for) the people, resources, history, wahi pana (significant cultural sites), and community well being of Kahalu'u. kaiauluokahaluu.org