Island: O'ahu
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SWOP Hawai'i
SWOP HI advocates for the rights, health, and safety of sex workers (current and former) and trafficking survivors through healing justice, disability inclusion, harm reduction, and BIPOC and lived-experience-led frameworks. Through direct outreach, emergency relief, and advocacy, they counter systemic disenfranchisement by providing essential harm reduction, wellness, and educational programming. By centering the lived experiences…
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The Pōpolo Project
The Pōpolo Project is redefining what it means to be Black in Hawai'i and in the world through cultivating radical reconnection to ourselves, our community, our ancestors, and the land, changing what we commonly think of as Local and highlighting the vivid, complex diversity of Black communities in our region and beyond. thepopoloproject.org
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Wisdom Circles Oceania
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
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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Ko'ihonua
Ko'ihonua is transforming the lives and conditions of Native Hawaiians through the reclamation and restoration of land, the revitalization of Hawaiian cultural practices, and investment in Hawai'i-based movements for social justice. koihonua.org
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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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Ko'olau Cooperative Community Hub
Ko'olau Cooperative Community Hub, empowered by farmers' market farmers, believes that FOOD IS MEDICINE, and that communities are strengthened in well being, health, and prosperity. Over the course of a year, the hui reimagined what sustainability means for the Ko'olau community through their stewardship of the weekly farmers' market at Ben Parker Elementary School, featuring…
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Hui Aloha 808: Bathroom Brigades
Hui Aloha's "Bathroom Brigades" is a pilot project that engages houseless ("homeless" or “"unhoused") residents and housed supply donors near high-use public parks or harbors, to support City/State staff in efforts to keep bathrooms open, safe, and clean during the COVID-19 outbreak. Each "Bathroom Brigade" support one park or harbor bathroom, and is anchored by…