Puna Strong

Puna Strong

Uncles Kokua Center

Enhancing Uncles Kaimu Farmers Market The Puna Strong Grant from the Hawaii Community Foundation provided funding for infrastructure improvements, mainly to cover the market grounds with beautiful red cinder. With future funding, we plan to build a Pavilion for people…

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Kūkulu Kumuhana o Puna

Kūkulu is a Hawaiian model of education based on ancestral ecological knowledge. The model is valuable now as it was for generations in Hawaii. In 1991, as a way to create a more balanced educational approach to the current educational…

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Kua O Ka Lā New Century Public Charter School

Kua O Ka Lā New Century Public Charter School’s vision is to help students thrive on Ke Ala Pono – the right path. Vision: We believe that every individual has a unique potential and that is our responsibility to help our…

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Hawai‘i Animal Kuleana Alliance

Their mission began in 2018, when Kilauea volcano erupted, and Alessandra and a friend rallied together to help rescue animals from the impending lava. They started a Facebook group (the Hawaii Lava Flow Animal Rescue Network) and added a few admins to help…

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Grassroots Church Pāhoa

At Grassroots Church we seek to structure our community not by the fears and agendas of our culture but by the revelation of God in the Scriptures. We believe that church leadership is a high calling and that not many…

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Girls to Women Mentoring Hawai‘i

Girls to Women Mentoring Hawai’i is a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization with a mission to offer meaningful connections and skills for adolescents that build empowerment, resilience, self-esteem, and healthy relationships. We provide this through circles facilitated by trained adult mentors in schools,…

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Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute: Healthy Diets and Education

The Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute is the only federally recognized 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization in the United States (US) devoted entirely to food ingredient safety, education, and research. There has been no organization in the U.S. devoted to conducting research…

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Fern Acres Community Association: A Resilience Hub for Fern Acres

Fern Acres continue to construct a resilience hub for the community that will include a Food Basket site, internet access, and activities for Keiki. Located in Puna, Hawaii, Fern Acres Community Association provides repair and maintenance of the approximately 26…

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Equality HI: Community Resource for LGBTQ+ Awareness and Education!

We host biannual Virtual Resource Fairs targeting LGBTQ+ individuals that are open to all Puna residents providing information and access to employment and financial literacy, housing resources, healthcare, domestic violence, and human trafficking resources, community-building activities, cultural services, and LGBTQ+…

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Boys and Girls Club of Big Island: Creative & Cultural Activities for Ages 6 – 17

BGCBI will offer academic support, critical needs resources, healthy lifestyles, substance and alcohol abuse prevention programming, and nutritional supplementation services to Puna youth. Everyday Hawai’i Island children go unsupervised after school. Many are left unattended at home until adults return…

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Big Island Invasive Species Committee: Environmental Care For Our Community

The Big Island Invasive Species Committee will coordinate neighborhood teams within Puna to educate and help treat invasive pests, leading to the development of positive relationships between neighbors and strengthened resilience.

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Arts & Sciences Center

Arts & Sciences Center will increase capacity to coordinate a variety of networking and learning opportunities for families and students of Hawai‘i Academy of Arts & Sciences and other surrounding schools, such as mentoring, yoga, and hula circles. We exist…

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Ahava ‘Āina: Healing Our Community

We will address the long-term mental and emotional effects of Puna residents impacted by the 2018 Kīlauea eruption through a series of talk stories and wellness events led by social workers and faith leaders. Founded and led by Rabbi Rachel…

Puna Rising: Connection through digital platforms

We are dedicated to the recovery and renewal of Puna by connecting our communities through several digital platforms and listening to the needs of the community and improving the content we create. Puna Rising’s mission as a media organization is…