Connections Beyond Campus Fair 2024

ʻĀina Hoʻōla Initiative

Founded by Kumiko and Patrick Mattison, our mission is deeply rooted in the preservation and restoration of Hawaiʻi’s unique ecosystems. Contact: ainahoola@gmail.com

American Cancer Society

The mission of the American Cancer Society is to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. Contact: rebecca.vandaele@cancer.org

American Red Cross- Pacific Islands Region

The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. Contact: mary.finley@redcross.org

Big Island Invasive Species Committee

Our mission is to prevent, detect, and control the establishment and spread of invasive species threats to the Big Island environment, economy, and way of life. We work island-wide protecting our native forests, communities, and agriculture from new and ongoing threats. Contact: biisc@hawaii.edu

Big Island Water Garden Club

The Big Island Water Garden Club was founded to promote the hobby of water gardening and to provide a place where members can meet and exchange information. The club's goal is to promote and develop the hobby within the community. Contact: mariner472000@yahoo.com

Center for Maunakea Stewardship

The Center for Maunakea Stewardship works to achieve harmony, balance and trust in the sustainable management and stewardship of the Maunakea Science Reserve through extending Native Hawaiian and community involvement and programs that protect, preserve and enhance the cultural, natural, educational and scientific resources of Maunakea in a manner that integrates traditional Indigenous knowledge and modern science. Contact: pilago@hawaii.edu

East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center

The East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center is a non-profit organization supporting the arts and culture community in Hilo for over 50 years. It is located across from Kalākaua Park in beautiful historic Downtown Hilo; a two-block walk from Hilo’s downtown Bayfront. Once the Hilo Police Station and County Courthouse, the Center now offers striking art exhibits, unique performances and a broad range of classes/workshops for all ages. Contact: lrich@ehcc.org

Goodwill Hawaii - Ola I Ka Hana Program

Goodwill Hawai‘iʻs Ola I Ka Hana program equips youths with the skills to achieve thir academic, employment and healthy living goals.

Habitat for Humanity Hawaiʻi Island, Inc.

Habitat For Humanity Hawaiʻi Island is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization operated on Christian principles that seeks to put God’s love into action by building homes, communities and hope. Contact: margo@habitathawaiiisland.org

Hawai‘i Community Assets

Our mission is to build the capacity of low- and moderate-income communities to achieve and sustain economic self-sufficiency with a particular focus on Native Hawaiians. Contact: melissa@hawaiiancommunity.net

Kupu Hawaiʻi Youth Conservation Corps

A non-profit organization with a mission to empower youth to serve their communities through service-learning and environmental stewardship opportunities. Internships are available statewide and throughout the Pacific. Contact: info@kupuhawaii.org

NexTech Hawai‘i

Our emphasis is STEM skills and career learning through a framework of relationships, relevance, and rigor. We offer tuition-free, project and place-based STEM learning programs for elementary, middle, and high school-aged youth. Contact: admin@nextechhawaii.org

Pacific Tsunami Museum

The goals of the Museum are to promote public tsunami education and to preserve history. The Museum serves as a living memorial to those who lost their lives in past tsunami events. Contact: museum@tsunami.org

Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center

The PI-CASC mission is to deliver science that helps fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate. Contact: slaursen@hawaii.edu

Pacific Internship Programs for Exploring Science

Growing, strengthening, and investing into the next generation of aloha ʻāina leaders throughout Hawaiʻi and the Pacific with transformative place-based internships and mentorship, innovative programming, pathways, and partnerships. Contact: uhintern@hawaii.edu

Student Care and Assistance

Hale Lako, the UH Hilo student supply house provides non-perishable food, school supplies, clothes, and personal hygiene items such as soap and laundry detergent when available for UH Hilo students with a valid student ID at no cost. Contact: uhhcaas@hawaii.edu

The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army Family Intervention Services (FIS) provides residential, prevention and intervention services to adolescents in communities on the Big Island of Hawai'i and Maui. Its mission is to provide youth with skills for a healthy lifestyle, and instill purpose, hope and vision to youth and their families. FIS provides opportunities to achieve academic success and personal resiliency.

Teach For America Hawaiʻi

Guided by our regional core values of kuleana (responsibility), ‘ohana (family), and aloha (love) and alongside our neighbors, we are preparing Hawaiʻi's keiki to be the authentic leaders of our local and global communities. Contact: paoakalani.shook@teachforamerica.org

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

The Pacific Islands Area includes the state of Hawai’i, territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Freely Associated States. We deliver conservation solutions so agricultural producers can protect natural resources and feed a growing world. Contact: laila.jayyousi@usda.gov

Zero Waste Hawaiʻi Island

The mission of Zero Waste Hawaiʻi Island is to connect diverse Hawaiʻi Island communities to support equitable systems redesign and policy change to achieve zero waste. Contact: zwhi@zerowastehi.org