News & Updates

We are excited to share the launch of our Hauʻoli Mau Loa Foundation Facebook page! Please visit and "like us" on Facebook to stay up to date on the work of our partners and our programs. Mahalo!

Against the backdrop of Hōkūleʻa's successful homecoming and other defining moments of this past year, we are pleased to present to you the second edition of HE LONO MOKU - HAWAIʻI'S STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORT for 2017. Beginning...

We are pleased to once again partner with the University of Hawaiʻi to support graduate assistantship opportunities at the University of Hawaiʻi, Hilo and Mānoa for the Fall 2018 school year. In addition to a tuition waiver, the nine...

I'm happy to share that I graduated from the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work Master's program in May, and I couldn't have asked for a better way to transition out of a whirlwind last year of school than to join Hau‘oli Mau Loa...

"It's About Time" In 1964, The Rolling Stones popularized the song, Time Is On My Side. If you are of a certain generation, I'll bet you've heard it a time or two. The title line is the best known: "Time, time, time is on my side, yes...

In the following twenty-two minute video, Hauʻoli Mau Loa Foundation and the Hope for Kids ʻEkahi partners provide an overview of the first Hope for Kids Initiative (2009 – 2015). Over the course of the initiative, the nonprofit...

Registration is now open for the 24th Annual Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference, July 18-20th, 2017 at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center. This year’s theme, “He Waʻa He Moku- Mālama Honua: Caring for our Island Earth” highlights the need to...

At noon on Monday, November 28, 2016, the Hawaiʻi Island skies cleared as the Reverend Daniel Akaka, Jr. led friends, board, and staff of Hawaiʻi Island Community Development Corporation (HICDC) and Hauʻoli Mau Loa Foundation in...

We are pleased to partner with the University of Hawaiʻi to support graduate assistantship opportunities at the University of Hawaiʻi, Hilo and Mānoa for the Fall 2017 school year. In addition to a tuition waiver, students selected by...

A few months ago I was powering through my first year of graduate school at the UH Mānoa Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work. This consisted of: coffee, exams, final projects, a part-time job, practicum requirements, extracurricular...