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.
Our organization received a grant from the Children’s Behavioral Health Fund and CBH-RWJ Fund of the Hawai’i Community Foundation. This funding will fulfill the vision of the Promising Minds initiative to support early learning assesments.
The McInerny Foundation has awarded $20,000 to INPEACE to advance the Indigenous Science Center’s Kapa Exhibit project. The Story of Kapa is a traveling exhibit that consists of ten large wooden display panels and fragile equipment.
Aloha United Way and the Hawai‘i Community Foundation are committed to finding solutions that lead to a more equitable and sustainable Hawai’i. We are excited to share that INPEACE – Ho’oulu Waiwai Financial Capabilities is part of the 2022 – 2024 ALICE Initiative Cohort and have been granted $300,000 over the next three years!
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.
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 501(c) Community-Based Organization.
Your gift is tax deductible as provided by law.
Our Federal Tax ID# 99-0315193.
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