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Nāwaipuna cultivates leaders through immersive, ʻāina-based learning grounded in ʻike kūpuna.
Your support sustains cultural practice, stewardship, and leadership development through the Makaliʻi Project.
What Your Support Makes Possible
PEOPLE
Who carries the work forward.
Developing emerging leaders through cultural practice, place-based learning, and direct experience.
PLACE
Where stewardship becomes practice.
Participants build lasting relationships with ʻāina through stewardship, restoration, and care.
PILINA
The relationships that sustain both.
Shared experiences create connections that continue long after the program ends.
Over the Next Decade, Your Support Will Help Sustain
Annual Makaliʻi Project cohorts
Indigenous knowledge exchange
Leadership development
Cultural and environmental stewardship
Long-term continuity of this work
$50
Support participant learning experiences
$100
Support stewardship and cultural practice
$250
Support community-based learning
$500
Support leadership development
$1,000+
Invest in long-term continuity
Other
Contribute at any level
For more than a decade, participants have engaged in cultural practice, stewardship, and Indigenous knowledge exchange through the Blue Water Exchange and the Makaliʻi Project.
Your support helps ensure this work continues for the next generation.
Nāwaipuna is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible as allowed by law. EIN # 85-2060460