Sweets and Solidarity for Maui
The City and County of Honolulu’s Elderly Affairs Division holds a bake sale to benefit fire survivors.
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Planting Resilience on Maui
Fire survivors hired to heal the land also heal themselves.
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Restoring ‘Āina, While Visiting ‘Āina
An ‘āina focused nonprofit on Moloka’i is restoring natural landscapes with native plant species.
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Education, Service, Aloha: Making Hawai‘i a Better Place
David M. K. Mattson Jr. understands the compounding returns on relationships.
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A Beacon of Hope and Transformation
A new development aims to bring hope and healing to West Maui.
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Patching Maui’s Support Network
A new emergency fund is allowing Maui caregivers some much-needed breathing room.
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Goodwill Voucher Program Extended
Gift-card vouchers can be used at Goodwill through the end of June 2024.
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Healing By Land and Sea
Ka‘ehu events help promote indigenous mental health practices.
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Living Pono Project
Locally-sourced foods fill Mahi’ai Baskets for 400+ Maui families.
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Meeting Maui Residents Where They Are
Maui Rescue Mission connects with unhoused people on their terms.
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From a Child’s Questions to a Sustainability Movement
Candes Gentry and her son’s cookbook inspired a fund to support sustainable living.
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Waves of Healing on Maui
Kids Hurt Too brings pro surf mentors and smiles to Maui elementary students.
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Bringing Early Education to More of Hawaiʻi’s Keiki
$38 million Preschool Open Doors expansion supports ALICE families and keiki
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The Hawaiian Islands Environmental Finance Center Launches
Bringing in federal funding for freshwater projects
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Building a Maui Food System for the Future
Learning from the fires and building resiliency
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Faith and Unity after the Maui Fires
Longtime Lahaina resident brings strength to his expansive community
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Common Ground Collective
Coming together to feed those affected by the Maui Fires
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Nā Keiki o Emalia
Helping children and families cope with grief and loss
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Mauliola Pharmacy
Bringing life-saving medications to displaced West Maui residents
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Hawaiʻi Animal Rescue Foundation
Taking in animals displaced by the fires
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Pacific Birth Collective
Caring for pregnant, birthing, and postpartum families in Lahaina
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Community Vision to Reality
The Pu‘uhonua o Wai‘anae community starts a new development in the back of Wai‘anae Valley.
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Leveling Up Maui’s Housing Options
A new affordable development provides one solution for helping Hawai‘i’s housing crisis.
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Plans for the Office of Wellness and Resilience
Here’s what’s first on the priority list for improving child mental healthcare.
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Kūpuna Care, One Volunteer at a Time
Maui nonprofit Nā Hoaloha helps keep seniors healthy and independent.
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Making Hawaiian Culture a Conversation
A Kealakehe community center is making Native Hawaiian cultural practices accessible to all.
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Conservation through Education
A team of volunteers is protecting Kahalu‘u Bay’s precious resources, one visitor at a time.
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Bringing Women Leaders into the Circle
Wāhine Pō‘ai aims to empower women executives through peer connection.
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Compassionate Interventions for Maui County Keiki
The Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of Maui offers expedited, targeted assistance to children in challenging situations.
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A Generous Gift Ensures a Healthier Hawai‘i
This fund helps keep doctors practicing on Hawaii Island, reducing medical care shortages.
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Hawai‘i Nonprofits Join Forces to Tackle ALICE
A new initiative uses collective action to build financial stability for Hawaiʻi families.
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Fresh Start for Families at Kealaula
A new Līhuʻe housing complex offers a springboard for families transitioning out of homelessness.
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Funding Hawai‘i’s Future Freshwater Resources
Watershed partnerships are helping to protect fresh water resources on Maui and across the state.
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Bridging the Gap
ClimbHI connects Hawaii’s keiki to local leaders and future careers
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Maui Financial Opportunity Center
Improving credit scores, managing debt, and increasing savings helps families become “home-purchase ready.”
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HOPE Services
Partnering with businesses to increase inventory of transportable modular houses and ensure safe housing for kupuna on Hawai‘i Island
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The Maui Farm
Helping at-risk women and their children unearth confidence and success.
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Hui O Mana Ka Puuwai
A canoe club provides a safe space for Kaua‘i’s youth and adults while strengthening their community through partnerships.
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Adult Friends for Youth
Counselors at this nonprofit are building relationships with young people who are struggling—and getting them back on track.
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Maui Nui Makai Network
Seven community groups across Maui Nui are sharing their knowledge and exerting their kuleana to restore our ocean.
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Garden Island Arts Council
Mentors are helping Kaua‘i’s youth honor their own ideas and nurture their artistic side through public murals.
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Looking Ahead for Hawai‘i’s Oceans
A new, community driven initiative aims to secure a resilient ocean.
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Support Parents, Support Kids
A new cross-sector plan makes mental and behavioral health resources more accessible to families.
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Keeping Connections with Health Care Providers Strong
A community health center implements virtual visits to keep residents on the west side of Hawai‘i Island healthy and well.
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Giving Farmers More Assurance
A nonprofit focused on solving food security issues steps up during the pandemic shutdown to aid farmers and families in need.
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Restoring Hope in Students
The Stronger Together Hawai‘i Scholarship Fund helps students achieve their dream of going to college despite the pandemic’s adverse economic effects.
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Creating Collaboration
Diverse organizations demonstrate the power of partnerships to regain choice and control within their communities.
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Designing a Better World through Philanthropy
A scholarship helped get Architectural design firm Group 70 makes giving back part of its company culture.
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Paying It Forward
See-Ming Yim built a career with the support of others. Now, he’s giving back.
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Celebrating Success with Philanthropy
For this resort owner, anniversaries are perfect for giving back to the community.
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A Legacy of Generosity Lives On
This local boy made good has helped generations of Roosevelt High School graduates.
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Family Investments
This Maui couple is teaching their kids about philanthropy early.
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Giving Runs in the Family
The Goodale Family Fund will serve Kaua‘i for generations.
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Kaua‘i’s First Female Pharmacist
Betty Bell is making sure Kaua‘i women can forge ahead on their own careers
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Meet Justina Acevedo-Cross
We sat down with Justina Acevedo-Cross to learn about her work to support young children in Hawai‘i.
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Meet Michelle Ka'uhane
We speak with Michelle to learn how she has brought Hawaiʻi Perspectives to the national stage.
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Meet Larissa Kick
We chatted with Larissa Kick to find out more about her work with Community Grants and Initiatives.
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Helping HCF Employees Thrive and Grow
Jamee Kunichika and Jamie Mitte in HCF’s People Operations and Growth Department share their approach to human resources.
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Living to Serve, Local Style
Kahua Pa‘a Mua
As the plantations and their way of life disappeared, he passed on those values as an agriculture teacher with the Hawai‘i State Department of Education. He watched many of his students grow into leaders of the community. Says David, “When you look at those leaders you go, ‘Wow, we were happy we could contribute to them.”
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Creating Touchpoints in a Distanced World
Boys and Girls Club of Hawai‘i
Prior to March, Tina Albao, Kaua‘i Director of Development and Operations for the Boys and Girls Club of Hawai‘i (BGCH), ran afterschool programs at sites around the island that provided enrichment and a safe place for youth, and supported strong connections between keiki, families, and the club’s staff.
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Essential Help for Essential Workers
Island of Hawai‘i YMCA
When the pandemic hit, Alena Vincent was in a bind. She had started a new job with the DMV, while her husband, Wendell, worked with the Department of Transportation.
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Building the Foundation for a Stable Community
Hawaiian Community Assets Financial Opportunity Center on Maui
Ivory Gilmore’s family has lived in Lahaina for generations. She works for Maui County, and has never been unemployed.
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COVID, Legal Issues, and a Surge of Calls
Legal Aid Society Hawai‘i
Last March, as the pandemic was raging and Hawai‘i was all but shuttered, Cynthia Merrick found herself out of a job. Unemployment insurance was slow in coming, but she made rent with her savings and federal disaster relief money.
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Nurturing Body and Spirit for Low-Income Kona Families
Kona Kids Outreach
Before COVID-19 hit, Kona Kids Outreach (KKO) was focused on enrichment for kids and their families in low-income subsidized housing in Kona, with afterschool programs and mentoring.
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Food Trucks & Care Givers—An Unexpected Relationship
University of Hawai‘i Foundation
CTAHR partnered with the Maui Food Technology Center—a cooperative of fifteen food trucks—to offer family caregivers free meals. Former participants of CTAHR’s education programs received “kūpuna meal vouchers” to redeem at their choice of fifteen food trucks—twelve on Maui and three on Moloka‘i.
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Helping Victims Walk a Dangerous Road Through COVID-19
Domestic Violence Action Center
When the coronavirus stay at home order was announced in Hawai'i, Nanci Kreidman, CEO of Hawai'i’s Domestic Violence Action Center (DVAC), knew that it would be an exceptionally risky period for DVAC clients.
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New Models for Helping Homeless Families During COVID-19
Family Promise of Hawai'i
On any given day, an estimated 563 families with minor children in Hawai‘i have no place to call home.
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Zero Interest Loans Provide Security—And Hope
Hawaiian Community Assets
Struggle is nothing new for single mom Lei Agcaoili, who moved from O‘ahu to Kaua‘i, where they had few friends and no family, in order for her daughter to be closer to her dad.
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Support for our Keiki—and Our Economy
The Home-Based Child Care Emergency Fund
Before COVID-19 reached our islands, Chanelle Aina-Paaoao had been caring for the children of working families from her home in Hilo for seven years. “They were all like family,” she says. “When there was a party, they were all invited.”
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Food Talk
The Food Basket, Hawaii Island’s Food Bank
More than 1 in 10 people in Hawaii are food insecure—which means they lack consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. With COVID-19, families across Hawaii who were already struggling now need immediate help to basic needs. Grants from the Hawaii Resilience Fund were deployed to foodbanks across our islands just days after the fund was established.
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Feeding Kupuna and Keiki—While Keeping Kauai’s Fishers Afloat
E Ola Mau and the Kekaha Agriculture Association
When the COVID-19 crisis struck, fishermen on Kauai’s rural West Side found themselves with plenty of fish but not so many buyers with restaurants only doing take-out. At the same time, the community’s furloughed tourism industry workers were finding it harder to feed their families.
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Supporting the Working Families Who Support Hawaii
The YMCA
When schools closed their doors because of COVID-19, the YMCA knew that working families weren’t just losing lessons, but also reliable, trusted childcare, and often, important nutrition in the form of school meals.
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Protecting Those Who Continue to Serve
PPE Resilience Hubs
Without a supply of masks, gloves, and other PPE, Heather Lusk and her staff, volunteers, and community partners can’t work safely in the field or in their clinic. Unless they find more, quickly, they may not be able to continue their lifesaving work at all.
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Keeping Kupuna Healthy — at Home
Kokua Kalihi Valley
For many seniors at Kokua Kalihi Valley (KKV), the beloved elder program is a lifeline to friends, movement, fresh air, and community. When the COVID-19 stay-at-home order rolled out, the group activities for the senior program had to stop.
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