Restoring our natural resources takes all of us, working together.
2024 Gathering of CBES Grantees
Permanent preservation of our environment requires collaboration between community, science and academia, and government.
Twenty-six Kosasa Foundation Community-Based Environmental Sustainability grantees and a few funders spent a day together sharing, listening and learning.
We all came away ready to work together to reclaim our environment.
Grantee Participants
BIRC&D – Big Island Invasive Species Committee, Plant Pono Landscaping Education Program
Coral Reef Alliance, Restoring & Strengthing Resilience of Maui Nui Reefs
Hawaiʻi Bicycling League, HBL 50th Safe Streets for All
Hawaiʻi Environmental Restoration, Keauʻohana Native Rainforest
Hawaiʻi Forest Insititute, Go Native Project
Hawaiʻi Land Trust
Hawaiʻi Wildlife Center, Native Wildlife Treatment & Rehabilitation
Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund, Kaʻū Hoa Pili ʻĀina Traning and Enrichment Program
Hoʻokauaʻāina, Palawai Land Expansion
Hui Aloha Kīholo, Mohala i ka Wai: Empowering our Community to Support a Thriving Kīholo
Hui Makaʻāinana o Makana, Ka Makana Paʻakai
Hui Mālama i ke Ala ʻŪlili, Hoʻonopapa Koholālele
Mālama Learning Center, Ola Nā Kini Kōkua Program
Mālama Maunalua, Creating New Protocols for Improved Fisheries Data Collection and Rule Compliance
Mālama Pūpūkea-Waimea, Preserving Place: Community Implementation of a New Management Plan
Maui Nui Marine Resources Council, Resilient Reefs: Assessing Wildrire Impacts & Restoring Lahainaʻs Coral Ecosystems
National Tropical Botanical Garden, Biocultural Conservation of Coastal Hala Forests in East Maui
Polynesian Voyaging Society, Moananuiākea: A Voyage for Earth
Protect & Preserve Hawaiʻi, Aloha ʻĀina
Re-Use Hawaiʻi, Lessions of Sustainability Through Material Reuse
Sustainable Coastlines Hawaiʻi, Uniting Inspiration & Action for Healthy Coastlines from Soil to Sea
Trust for Public Land – Aloha ʻĀina
The Nature Conservancy, Maui Conifer Fuels Reduction/Biochar Project
UH Institute for Sustainability & Resilience, Sustainability Fellows Program
We ended our day together with hope and a list of actions that will propel us forward:
Terrence R. George, President and CEO of the Harold K. Castle Foundation, and Travis Counsell, Executive Director of the Hawaiʻi Bicycling League, share their reflections from the gathering.
