Hawaii People's Fund / Recent Grantees

Friends of Lana‘i (FOL): Project: Friends of Lanaʻi Outreach and Education
This grant helps FOL give voice to those who oppose destroying culturally and environmentally sensitive lands on Lanaʻi to build an industrial wind power plant. FOL supports decreasing Hawai‘iʻs dependence on fossil fuels. After years of building community support and awareness on Lanai, FOL will extend their organizing and outreach efforts to O‘ahu where the power generated by the wind farm project will be consumed.
Hawai‘i Community Stewardship Network (HCSN): Project: Speaking for Ourselves and the Earth: Empowering Advocacy by Hawaiian Communities that Malama ‘Aina
As part of a three-year campaign, the grant to HCSN provides for grassroots community advocacy training for rural Hawaiian communities that mālama ‘āina, communities that often have been marginalized from decision-making and alienated from governmental and political resources. This grant will help with advocacy training planned on Lanaʻi in 2012.
Hawai‘i Friends of Justice and Civic Education: The Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Family Law Clinic will empower marginalized imprisoned women to have a voice and some degree of power to solve family issues legally. The Clinic will offer legal sessions with women to assist completing pro se paperwork. It will also develop The Family Law Manual, a user-friendly resource manual that will be available to incarcerated women.
Mauna Kea Anaina Hou: A second time grantee, Mauna Kea Anaina Hou consists of cultural practitioners with ancestral ties to Mauna Kea who are working to protect the sacred summit from the impacts of continued expansion of an industrial park within the its conservation district. This grant will help in their outreach efforts in educating communities in Hawai‘i about the significance and meaning of Mauna Kea.
Mohala Farms: Based in Waialua on the North Shore of O’ahu, Mohala Farms is a fully functioning organic farm. Their innovative project, Ola Mai Ka Piko: Connecting to the Source combines two foundational qualities of a living culture: sharing practices of growing and preparing healthy, organic food and teaching in a traditional learning style, the practice of Hawaiian chanting. By combining these practices, the project brings much needed health awareness to Hawaiian families and support to place-based practices.
Godʻs Country Waimanalo: This second-time grantee perpetuates Hawaiian culture, history, language and the arts. The Kim Coco Iwamoto Fund for Social Justice will help fund the repair of their roof, which was damaged during a storm in January.

Since July 1, 2011 Hawai‘i People's Fund has distributed over $45,000 in grant awards. YOUR donations helped to support these grants!