Grantees
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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. malamakauai.org
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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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Hawaiʻi Workers Center envisions a Hawaiʻi where all workers are empowered to exercise their rights to organize for their social, economic and political wellbeing. hawaiiworkerscenter.org
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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. kalauokekahuli.org
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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 ʻohana, government, public, and private sectors. pohakupelemaka.org
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Waipahu Safe Haven provides holistic programs and services with language access, and to serve as a beneficial guiding resource to enable individuals to attain success, and empower children and families to be self-sustaining, positive contributors in community. waipahusafehaven.com
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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 Kuamoʻo 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, ahupuaʻa-based natural resource management, and connection to place through protection of cultural landscapes and family lands on Kauaʻi. kipukakuleana.org
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Nā Moku Aupuni o Ko’olau Hui is dedicated to protecting Mauiʻs natural resources, preserving cultural heritage, and empowering communities, their work deeply rooted in Hawaiian values, aiming to mālama ʻāina (care for the land) and uphold the traditions of our ancestors. namoku.net