News & Updates

Ten families have begun work on their homes as Phase I of the three-phase homeownership project, Puʻuʻalalā Village, on Hawai‘i Island in Pepeʻekeo. Nonprofit housing developer, Hawai‘i Island Community Development Corporation, is...

Since 2012, the Foundation has partnered with the University of Hawaiʻi to support graduate assistantship opportunities at the University of Hawaiʻi, Hilo and Mānoa. We are pleased to once again support nine graduate assistantship...

Transitions at Hau‘oli Mau Loa FoundationAloha Partners,For a number of years, and out of a desire to ensure continuity of leadership within the Foundation, our Founding Directors, Wayne Pitluck and Hans Bertram-Nothnagel, have...

This past spring I graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Economics. Fresh out of college, I wanted to devote this summer to explore potential career paths.Given my...

In 2012, The University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO), in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy Hawai‘i and Hau‘oli Mau Loa Foundation, published a report characterizing the natural resources management (NRM)...

Dear Friends, According to the Hawaiian Dictionary, Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert, the Hawaiian word for time of change is huliau. For a number of reasons, we have been especially focused on what it means to be in a time of...

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 2019 school year. In addition to a tuition waiver, the nine...

Since 2011, Hauʻoli Mau Loa Foundation has partnered with the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species (CGAPS) in an effort to keep invasive species from entering our island home. Each year we work with CGAPS to identify important...

It feels like just yesterday I got the email stating, “We’d like to offer you the internship position for 2018.” Now I have the email saying, “Shai, one of your final projects is to work on your blog for the summer internship.” What can...

"A Reason for Hope"Aloha!Is there reason for hope today? Depending on when you ask that question, my answer might vary. Like many of you in the past year, we at the Foundation have felt buffeted by waves of uncertainty arising from a...