2026
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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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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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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…
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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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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,…