2025
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Wisdom Circles Oceania provides a creative framework for healing and community justice through trauma-informed artistic expression to cultivate healthy, thriving communities through healing-centered youth programs. Grounded in Aloha 'Āina, our approach empowers community through art, as a tool for transformative justice, healing, and confronting systems that reproduce harm. Through creative resistance, and meaningful collaboration, we…
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KAHEA: The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance works to improve the quality of life for Hawai'i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of Hawai'i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea.org
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Hawai'i Peace & Justice is working toward a liberated world through the promotion of peace, abolition, demilitarization, climate, and social justice. They engage communities through place based programming, 'ōpio environmental justice education, and intergenerational organizing that deepens understanding of ʻāina protection and systemic harm. hawaiipeaceandjustice.org
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Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action (HAPA) catalyzes community empowerment and systemic change towards valuing people and ‘āina ahead of corporate profits. They build grassroots leadership and community power to shift political will and reclaim governance over Hawaiʻi’s food systems and natural resources. Through initiatives like Kuleana Academy, they develop a growing bench of community-accountable leaders—reshaping…
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Mālama Kakanilua advocates for the identification, recognition, preservation, and protection of iwi kūpuna (ancestral remains), historical, indigenous, and cultural sites, as well as indigenous cultural properties on the island of Maui and across the Hawaiian archipelago, challenging multinational corporations’ extractive and exploitative developments that negatively impact Native Hawaiian cultural practices. malamakakanilua.com
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Hui o Kuapā educates local and global communities about Native Hawaiian biocultural resource management through the restoration, use, and maintenance of Molokaiʻs loko iʻa (traditional Hawaiian fishponds) and their adjacent lands. Their mission is to cultivate a thriving, culturally resilient Hawaiʻi where ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language), moʻolelo (traditional stories), traditional arts, and mālama aina (land…
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Maunakea Education & Awareness educates and raises awareness of communities in Hawai'i and beyond on the spiritual, historical, cultural, environmental, and political significance of Mauna Kea and ALL sacred places. mkea.info
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Hawai'i Women in Filmmaking advocates for women and girls (cis/trans), femmes, non-binary, gender-fluid, and gender-queer to tell their stories through film with an intersectional lens. Their work is pivotal in creating a diverse and inclusive cinematic landscape in Hawaiʻi, prioritizing narratives that are often overshadowed or neglected, especially those of underrepresented voices, and allowing all…
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Kahalu'u Kūāhewa is restoring an ancient traditional agricultural field system in Kona ma uka to perpetuate ancestral knowledge reconnecting kanaka to 'āina through indigenous grassroots initiatives and sustainable restorative agricultural practices. kahaluukuahewa.org
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Hui Kaloko-Honokōhau is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and advancing the natural and cultural resources of Kaloko and the customary and traditional practices of Native Hawaiians of the area. They return kia'i loko as stewards of Kaloko Loko I'a centering our people, practices, and values as a fierce reminder that we are still here. huikalokohonokohau.org