Cohort
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KAHEA: The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance
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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Protecting Oceania
Protecting Oceania brings together Pasifika philosophers and grassroots organizers to forge new alliances, formations, strategies, and tactics rooted in their own worldviews, to determine how best to address those issues causing the most harm to Pacific peoples. Their hope is that the Protecting Oceania convening is only the beginning of setting a new agenda of…
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Hawai'i Peace & Justice
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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Hawai'i Alliance for Progressive Action
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
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
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
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
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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Pu'uhonua o Wailupe
Pu'uhonua o Wailupe is a living sanctuary for the stewardship and protection of iwi kūpuna, cultural sites, natural resources, and traditional Hawaiian rights and practices. Located in a predominantly settler community on East O'ahu, they aim to protect the unique history, cultural sites, and iwi kūpuna of Wailupe. The hui engages in educational outreach, non-violent…
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Kahalu'u Kūāhewa
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