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 are pleased to announce Congressman Ed Case secured $500,000 in federal funding for the development of the INPEACE Center for Entrepreneurship, a small business incubator to assist local entrepreneurs and small businesses.
We are pleased to announce the Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture (INPEACE) received a historic gift of $5 million from Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the largest single unrestricted donation received by INPEACE in our 28 years of operation and the most remarkable investment towards our mission. As a result of a national search and an extensive research process, the gift was made in support of our educational work with indigenous people.
The Native Hawaiian Organizations Association has generously provided $21,061 in funds to INPEACE to support a book project to create culture-based children’s readers to help build educational capacity for keiki.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has awarded $175,000 to INPEACE through the Native Hawaiian Teacher Education & Professional Development Grant to support the collaborative work with Native Hawaiian community members working towards their academic and professional goals on a teacher career pathway.
The Department of Community Services City & County of Honolulu has awarded $200,000 to INPEACE through the Grants In Aid program to help strengthen new businesses with the strategic focus on businesses owned by families with young children.
Ho‘oulu Waiwai Program | $200,000
Ho‘oulu Waiwai, Ka Lama, and Kupu Ola Programs | $1,009,164
Keiki Steps Program | $265,476
Hi‘ilei Program | $1,824,909
Kupu Ola Program | $400,000
Kaulele Program | $199,642
Kaulele Program | $143,476
Ka Lama & Keiki Steps Programs | $10,274,539
INPEACE Center for Entrepreneurship | $500,000
General fund | $50,000
Ho‘oulu Waiwai Program | $100,000
Ho’oulu Waiwai – Financial Capabilities | $300,000
General fund | $10,000
Kaulele Program | $30,000
Ka Lama Program | $50,000
Ka Lama Program | $50,000
Ho‘āla, Ka Lama, and Keiki Steps Programs | $1,136,100
Kaulele Program | $20,000
General Fund | $50,000
Business Action Center
Chaminade University
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA)
‘Eleu Native Hawaiian Consortium
Employee Trust Fund
Hamada Financial Group
Hanakēhau Learning Farm
Hawai‘i Jump$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
INPEACE, the Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture, is a non-profit 501(c)3.
Your gift is tax deductible as provided by law.
Our Federal Tax ID# 99-0315193.
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