Organizations

'Āina Aloha ʻO Nā Lima Hana

​This farm is under the stewardship of Mark Paikuli-Stride and his ʻohana (family). It’s located within the Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Gardens (not associated with the park), in the ʻili ʻāina of Luluku, in the ahupuaʻa of Kāneʻohe. On this kalo (taro) farm they grow other native and non-native foods, medicines, and plants.

Compassionate Koʻolau

Caring for our community means being a resource to all who nurture our youth including parents, caregivers, kūpuna, educators, coaches, spiritual leaders, doctors, and others. Whether addressing physical, emotional, or academic needs, together we create a resilient and compassionate community. Together we create a community where every child can just be a kid.

Hakuhia

Hakuhia is the First Prez ministry that will steward the land at Koʻolau that God has entrusted to us. At the heart of the Hakuhia ministry is a guiding vision to renew people and place through community. After months of prayerful discernment amongst our church leaders, and in discussions with ‘aina-based practitioners and community partners, we are moving forward to steward the land that God has put into our care in ways that are aligned to our church’s mission.

Harold K.L. Castle Foundation

Founded in 1962, the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation works to build resources for Hawaii’s future. We do so by investing in promising initiatives and organizations through grantmaking, using our convening power, and introducing and spreading new ideas and approaches to help solve some of Hawaii’s most pressing problems.

Hawaiʻi Land Trust

Hawaiʻi Land Trust (HILT) is Hawaiʻi’s islands-wide land trust that is both a Hawaiʻi 501(c)3 nonprofit, and a nationally accredited land trust. We protect lands that are integral to Hawaiʻi’s well-being and character, upholding our kuleana to these lands, and the communities they are in, through thoughtful stewardship that deepens community connection to, and builds reciprocal relationships with ʻāina.

He'eia National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

Designated as the 29th site in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System in 2017, Heʻeia NERR represents a strong partnership among federal, state, and community-based entities, all committed to a vision of resilient estuaries and coastal watersheds where human and natural communities thrive. Supporting restoration of indigenous resource management, innovative research, education, and training that nourishes healthy and resilient ecosystems, economies, and communities.

Healthy Climate Communities

Schools, community groups and volunteers are growing a native forest on the watershed of Hāmākua Marsh, Kailua, Oʻahu. Our legacy native forest stores carbon, retains rain water, and creates habitat for native creatures. It is also a reservoir and seed bank of native plants, including rare and endangered plants.

With every youth educated, we are creating a community that understands the causes of climate change and empowering them to be part of the solution.

Hikaʻalani

Hikaʻalani will be working with cultural practitioners and artists to create and install appropriate, accurate signage at Ulupō Heiau, with QR code access to a website with indigenous stories of significant sites in Kailua. All who visit the sacred site of Ulupō and/or the new website will be enriched with deeper knowledge and native perspectives.

This project will be undertaken in partnership with the nonprofit Kauluakalana, the Windward YMCA, and Hawaiʻi State Parks Division of the Department of Land & Natural Resources.

Hoʻāla ʻĀina Kūpono

Through advocacy, community-based economic development projects, cultural and sustainability education, and ma ka hana ka ʻike (building knowledge through practice, and leading by example), we perpetuate traditional wisdom from our kūpuna (ancestors), and restore our collective kuleana (responsibility) to mālama ʻāina, mālama ʻohana, and hoʻoikaika pilina kānaka (care for the land, our families, and strengthen community relationships).

Hoʻokuaʻāina

Ho‘okua‘āina is a non-profit nestled in the ahupuaʻa of Kailua at Kapalai in Maunawili on the island of Oʻahu. It is a manifestation of Dean and Michele Wilhelm’s vision to create a gathering place for people in the community to connect with and care for the ‘āina, perpetuate Hawaiian culture through the cultivation and preparation of kalo, and to be a place that would ultimately bring healing to people, especially at-risk youth.

Hui Mālama o Ke Kai

Hui Mālama O Ke Kai is a non-profit organization that advocates stewardship by connecting youth to outdoor & ocean education, community service, and academic assistance with programming rooted in Native Hawaiian culture and values.

Hui O Hauʻula

Hui O Hau`ula is a 501c3 Non-Profit Supporting Equity and Community Resilience in the Ko`olauloa area on the island of Oahu. (Ka`a`awa, Kahana, Punalu`u, Hau`ula, Laie and Kahuku)
We are a collective of local businesses, organizations & outreach programs, also known as a "Partnership Hub", working together as a caring community to build resilience for all keiki, 'Ohana & Kupuna sharing Aloha & kuleana in all we do!

Hui o Koʻolaupoko

Hui o Ko`olaupoko (HOK) is a 501(c)3 non-profit watershed management group established in 2007 to work with communities to improve water quality through ecosystem restoration and storm water management, focusing specifically in the Ko`olaupoko region – from Makapu`u to Kualoa. HOK implements innovative, on-the-ground projects that effectively manage and protect water quality and natural resources in Hawai`

KEY Project

Kualoa-Heʻeia Ecumenical Youth (KEY) Project was founded in 1968 through the efforts of churches, community residents, and social service agencies. We are a civic center providing and connecting our community to resources and to each other.

Ka Huli o Hāloa

Ka Huli o Hāloa provides support and assistance to community-based educational initiatives and community charter school(s) to improve educational options and to perpetuate and preserve the arts, culture, history and traditions of Hawai'i through education.

Kauluakalana

KAULUAKALANA is a community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in 2019 by kamaʻāina of Kailua, those who have been raised by the lands and leaders of their ahupuaʻa to chart and navigate a course leading to kanaka (people) and ʻāina (land) reunited in a relationship that feeds us physically, intellectually, culturally, and spiritually. Traveling in the wake of those who came before, we are committed to ʻāina restoration and education, cultural revitalization, community regeneration, identity reclamation, and the renewal of kuleana in Kailua, one of the most storied ahupuaʻa on Oʻahu.

Koʻolau Foundation

Koʻolau Foundation is a cultural heritage preservation program. Our mission is to pursue and promote Hawaiian cultural and environmental practices, preservation and education. For years Koʻolau Foundation and Koʻolaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club have been working together to ensure that the sacred lands and cultural areas of Haʻiku Valley are preserved and protected for generations to come.

Koʻolauloa Foundation

Ko’olauloa Foundation is a registered nonprofit in the State of Hawaii focusing on serving our local and global communities with great respect to the Hawaiian culture and education along with promoting farming, wellness, healing, health and community service.”

Ko‘olaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club

To mālama our members, their families, & the communities in which we live

Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi

Since 2010, Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi has restored productivity to approximately six acres of loʻi kalo (irrigated terraces for the production of kalo) and has cleared an additional twenty acres for mala (dryland) for diversified agriculture.

Kānehūnāmoku Voyaging Academy

Kānehūnāmoku, a 29ft, double hulled, sailing canoe, is a hands-on, dynamic, and living classroom for students of all ages. Based at Kaʻalaea in Kāneʻohe Bay, students become crew members and learn all aspects of sailing the canoe, including maritime skills, non-instrumental navigation, elemental observations, teamwork and communication.

Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation

Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation (KHF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2003 by Kim and Jack Johnson, that supports environmental education in the schools and communities of Hawaiʻi.

We provide opportunities that enhance appreciation for and understanding of the environment to inspire lifelong stewards of the earth.

Pacific American Foundation (Waikalua Loko I‘a)

Waikalua Loko I'a is an 'aina-based community classroom, built on ‘iwi of our kupuna, who have laid the foundation to our present future embracing 21st century knowledge. Pacific American Foundation has thirty years of service to youth and community through Aloha.

Paepae o Heʻeia

Paepae o He’eia is a private non-profit organization dedicated to caring for He’eia Fishpond – an ancient Hawaiian fishpond located in He’eia, Ko’olaupoko, O’ahu. Established by young Hawaiians in 2001, Paepae o He’eia works to build and maintain a thriving and abundant He’eia Fishpond for our community.

Papahana Kuaola

Formally established as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization in 2006, Papahana Kuaola, located in the ʻili of Waipao, in the ahupuaa of Heʻeia, in Koʻolaupoko on Oʻahu, is a malama ʻaina-based education organization that is connecting the area’s past with a sustainable future. Papahana Kuaola is committed to creating a functional model of economic sustainability and environmental health in which Hawaiian knowledge is the means of decision-making to ensure that Hawaiian culture and native ecosystems are perpetuated. PKʻs approach to cultural sustainability is through the development and operation of educational programs.

UH Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology

The Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology is a global hub of excellence and innovation in marine science, coastal solutions, place-based education, and Indigenous community engagement. We are honored to be stewards of Moku o Loʻe, an islet in the ahupuaʻa of Heʻeia, among the living coral reefs of Kāneʻohe Bay. From this place, we advance a shared mission of understanding and conserving the world’s oceans – connecting research excellence with transformative education and community engagement for the benefit of Hawaiʻi, the Pacific Islands, and the world.

Waimanalo Learning Center/CTAHR

The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) Waimānalo Research Station was established in 1955. The 128 acre piece of land located in Waimānalo was established to promote diversified agriculture. For over 60 years the station has worked closely with local growers in the ahupua'a and across the state to disseminate science-based information to help solve problems facing producers.

YWCA (Kokokahi)

In 1927, Dr. Theodore Richards, former Principal of Kamehameha Schools, envisioned a community center where people of all races could come together as "one blood" or "kokokahi". In a time when it was the custom for communities to be segregated by race, Kokokahi was an unprecedented effort to breakdown racial barriers. The YWCA national commitment to eliminating racism is in close harmony with Dr. Richard's vision and ensures our programs and services are inclusive and mindful of the dignity of others.