Grantees
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Pū'ā Foundation facilitates ʻTrauma to Transformationʻ programming for justice-involved women and their families, especially Hawaiians. Through their Punahoa Heritage Forest efforts, they preserve and protect the natural state of the forest to maintain a gathering space for rejuvenation and cultural expression. puafoundation.org
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Nation of Hawai'iʻs mission can be summed up in one word: Education. They are a grassroots, community based, non-profit organization working to improve the quality of life of all people. Thier educational programs & projects are a new approach towards economic, social, and cultural development, perpetuating the Hawaiian cultural way of life by preserving the…
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Kaulana Nā Pua redefines what healing and learning can look like through hula, oli, and ancestral knowledge as powerful, legitimate forms of healing, and education as resistance, and centering 'ike kūpuna, asserting cultural practice as essential to well being and community transformation. Their work serves keiki and 'ōpio ages 10–25 adversely impacted in health, education,…
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Kana'aho Kahulimanu is a grassroots, Indigenous-led nonprofit dedicated to restoring Kahaluʻu Loʻi through 'āina-based stewardship, education, co-developed research and community engagement. Our work centers on revitalizing a traditional agricultural and water management system while reconnecting community members (keiki to kūpuna) to land, culture, and each other. Through regular mālama 'āina workdays, place-based education programs, co-developed…
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Ka Lei o ka Lāhui empowers survivors of domestic, sexual, and family violence through individual and group support services that utilize Hawaiian cultural healing practices in concert with standard survivor services. Grounded in Hawaiian practices, their aim is to restore balance, promote healing, and strengthen families and communities across Hawaiʻi, while building community and working…
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'Īlio'ulaokalani, organized by Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners, kumu hula and social change advocates, protects Native Hawaiian gathering rights, and the lands, oceans, and natural and cultural resources of Hawai'i.
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Hawai'i Community Safety Coalition unites local organizations and residents with lived experience and professional expertise across public safety, justice reform, mental health, economic opportunity, restorative justice, and community services to forward proven, community-based solutions that address root causes and create thriving communities. @communitysafetyhawaii
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The Hawaiian Civic Club of Wahiawā (HCCW) seeks to protect, preserve, and perpetuate the privileges of Kūkaniloko as multigenerational stewards of this wahi pana with an unbroken chain of care spanning over a century. Their mission is to inspire, educate, and encourage all things Hawaiian, seen and unseen, and to become responsible for and carry…
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ʻĀina Kōnea restores the reciprocal ea between the kānaka and ʻāina of Wahiawā by way of cultural revitalization. As Nā Kuene o Kauʻikua, servants of the forests and water that sustains us, they believe that when one loves ʻāina, they will fight to protect it as they would their own family. ainakonea.org
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Earth RMʻs mission is to develop, implement, and share accessible bioremediation solutions to heal communities, lands, and waters affected by environmental pollution. earthrm.org