2024
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Project Koa Yoga educates, trains, and mentors a generation of resilience-centered health educators, equipped to reintegrate the people, land, and culture of Hawaiʻi through a trauma-informed lens and a commitment to diversity through accessibility and aloha. The hui also provides trauma-informed, culturally responsive yoga and wellness programs to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in Hawai'i,…
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EA Ecoversity provides culturally-driven learning, training, credentialing, and long-term societal benefits to ka lāhui Hawaiʻi. EA hosts an independent Hawaiian culture-based post-secondary education and career training program, headquartered on rural Hawaiʻi Island, providing blended online and offline learning in an atmosphere of aloha. kuakanaka.com/eaecoversity
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As a Native Hawaiian, women-led organization, Ma'i Movement Hawai'i is deeply committed to menstrual equity and ending period poverty in Hawai'i. They have taken on the kuleana (responsibility, privilege) to ensure all individuals of menstruation age have access to sanitary products, safe and hygienic places to use them, and the right to manage their bodies…
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Keli'i William Ioane Legacy Foundation uplifts practices that reconnect kanaka with ʻāina through protection of cultural, historical, and archeological heritage at King’s Landing and Lehia Park while developing environmental management protocols to sustain future growth. keliiwilliamioanelegacyfoundation.com
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Ke Ea Hawai'i's mission is to advance the Hawaiian peoples, cultural practices, and voices of our era by developing excellent youth leadership, advancing collective success, and uplifting one another. They are an interscholastic student leadership council composed of one representative from 17 Hawaiian-Focused Charter Schools (HFCS). Their structure creates positional leadership opportunities in each school,…
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Ke Kahua O Kūali'i restores pilina to ʻāina at Kawainui through stewardship, 'ike Hawai'i, and community, and having a place for our people in Hawai'i. kekahua.org
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Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi is a native initiative for self-determination and self-governance formed by and for Kanaka Maoli dedicated to affirming and defending Hawaiian rights. kalahuihawaii.net
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Mālama Kaua'i focuses on increasing local food production and access for Kaua‘i through a lens of resilience and sustainability, leveraging workforce and economic development efforts, partnerships, and innovative programs to grow community capacity. Theyʻre strengthening Kaua'i’s communities by supporting local people to identify their own needs and create solutions rooted in place, culture, and collective…
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Kuhialoko restores traditionally managed water flow in Waiawa Kai, promoting the return of native, endemic, and endangered species to re-establish traditional ʻohana connections, build relationship with ʻāina (land), and reinstitute traditional practices to the broader community.
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As the first and only workers center in Hawaiʻi, the Hawai'i Workers Center envisions a Hawaiʻi in which all workers are empowered to organize for their social, economic, and political wellbeing. Serving all of the Hawaiian islands, the HWC was created to address the most urgent needs of Hawai'i's low-wage, non-union workers across industries such…