Hi‘ilei provides educational home-visits where parents meet regularly with a Parents As Teachers certified educator to learn about early childhood development and gain the skills needed to be their child’s first and best teacher.
Ho‘āla conducts outreach that provides families with information on the importance of early childhood education and helps them navigate systems to secure early learning opportunities for their child.
Keiki Steps is a Hawaiian culture-based family-child interactive learning preschool where parents and children, from newborn to age 5, learn together to ensure academic success and prepare keiki for Kindergarten.
Empowering
Early
Learning
Ka Lama Education Academy supports community members in their pursuit to become high-quality teachers in their home communities through college support, mentorship and professional training.
Kaulele seeks to create informal STEM learning opportunities through indigenous Hawaiian knowledge that connects modern and traditional science to help young learners engage, connect to and succeed in STEM academics and occupations.
Kupu Ola collaborates with schools to create alternative learning approaches that focus on strengthening academic and personal confidence in youth through the integration of Native Hawaiian culture in outdoor classrooms and interactive learning activities.
Early Literacy collaborates with community early childcare services and preschools, providing professional development, educational materials, coaching, and support for the delivery of an evidence-based literacy intervention.
Empowering
Educational
Equity
Ho‘oulu Waiwai works with families to strengthen financial well-being though partnerships, pathways and learning experiences that nurture personal financial wellness and entrepreneurial development.
The INPEACE Center for Entrepreneurship supports new family-owned business start-ups on the Leeward Coast of O‘ahu to increase their capacity to succeed.
Empowering
Economic
Stability
INPEACE is a nonprofit organization that relies on funders and in-kind partners to provide programs and services that strengthen, support, educate and empower our communities. To all of the funders and in-kind partners who support INPEACE’s programs and initiatives, mahalo nui loa.
We’re excited to share that INPEACE has received a generous grant from Bank of Hawaiʻi Foundation! Their support helps us improve our very own space, Hale Nānāikeola in Nānākuli, so we can better serve our community, and we’re incredibly grateful for their investment in our work and our community.
The Kaulele “Hoʻonui ʻIke” (Expanding Knowledge) initiative has been awarded $35,000 from Hawaii Tourism Authority’s Kūkulu Ola program! Kaulele delivers culturally grounded, hands-on STEM learning experiences to rural and underserved communities by transporting museum-quality exhibits rooted in ancestral knowledge systems. These interactive learning environments are designed to spark curiosity, reinforce cultural identity, and inspire deeper connections to ʻāina and place.
Our Early Literacy program received a one-year (2025-2026) grant from the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation for culture-based early literacy! The Samuel N. & Mary Castle Foundation was founded in 1894, with nearly 200 years in Hawai‘i. The Foundation’s purpose is to support equal opportunity for young children to thrive in school. The Foundation concentrates its efforts in places where there are barriers to educational success.
Ho‘oulu Waiwai received a grant from the Bernice and Conrad von Hamm Fund of the Hawai‘i Community Foundation! The fund supports Financial Literacy programs that “engage individuals and families in Hawai‘i to build financial knowledge and skills, enabling them to reduce financial vulnerability, achieve economic stability, and contribute to a thriving local economy.”
INPEACE has been awarded a grant from Kamehameha Schools Kaiāulu to help sponsor our Center For Entrepreneurship (C4E) Holiday Pop-Up Market held in our community, to showcase local vendors, artists, and small businesses! This funding will enhance event accessibility and create a vibrant space for connection and commerce
Ho‘oulu Waiwai Program | $200,000
Early Literacy Program | $1,196,604
Kaulele Program | $20,000
Ho‘oulu Waiwai, Ka Lama, and Kupu Ola Programs | $659,236
Hi‘ilei Program | $2,905,862
Kupu Ola Program | $700,000
Kaulele Program | $398,795
Kaulele Program | $2,300,000
Ka Lama & Keiki Steps Programs | $13,714,708
Center for Entrepreneurship | $500,000
General Fund | $50,000
Ho‘oulu Waiwai Program | $100,000
Ho’oulu Waiwai Program | $300,000
Kaulele Program | $40,000
Kaulele Program | $10,000
General Fund | $20,000
Kaulele Program | $10,000
Ho‘āla Program | $150,000
Center for Entrepreneurship | $300,000
General Fund | $15,000
Kaulele Program | $45,000
Ka Lama and Kupu Ola Programs | $100,000
Ho’oulu Waiwai Program | $50,000
Ho‘āla, Ka Lama, Kaulele, and Keiki Steps Programs | $6,995,905
Kaulele Program | $20,000
Keiki Steps Program | $21,061
Early Literacy and Keiki Steps Programs | $230,000
Business Action Center
Chaminade University
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA)
‘Eleu Native Hawaiian Consortium
Employee Trust Fund
Hamada Financial Group
Hanakēhau Learning Farm
Hawai‘i Jump$tart Coaltion
Hawai‘i State Teachers Standards Board
Hawai‘i Tax Help
Hawaiian Community Assets
Howard Hughes Corporation – Ward Village
Ka Makana Ali‘i
Kamehameha Schools
Learning Disabilities Association of Hawaiʻi
Lili‘uokalani Trust
MA‘O Organic Farms
Moloka‘i General Hospital
Na Pu‘uwai, Moloka‘i
Nānākuli Public Library
Native Hawaiian Education Council
OK Farms – Hilo
Partners In Development
Pearl Hawai‘i Federal Credit Union
State of Hawai‘i Department of Education
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Hawai‘inuiakea, School of Hawaiian Knowledge
University of Hawaiʻi, College of Education
University of Hawaiʻi (Mānoa, West Oʻahu, Leeward CC, Honolulu CC)
Villages of Kapolei
The mission of INPEACE is to improve the quality of life for Native Hawaiians through community partnerships that provide educational opportunities and promote self-sufficiency.
INPEACE, the Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture, is a 501(c)(3) Community-Based Organization.
Your gift is tax deductible as provided by law.
Our Federal Tax ID# 99-0315193.
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