Project Grant Library
Teachers from Hawai’i public schools can apply for Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation Project Grants to help advance their environmental education goals. Previous grantees have used KHF funds for garden supplies, eco-footprint workshops, vermicompost trainings, and more. One school has raised enough worms to start a commercial-scale vermicomposting bin for their campus food waste!
Kupuna Peace Education Project
Waikiki SchoolOur experience with the Kūpuna Peace Education Project was incredible. We had kūpuna come and work with our students every Monday and build a kūpuna donation garden bed with them. The students were able to grow, harvest, and share all the produce grown with kūpuna for them to take home every Monday.
We also built a peace pole and decorated and planted it in our Peace Garden. The kūpuna along with our students blessed and dedicated our peace pole along with the whole school on Earth Day, April 22, 2019.
The kūpuna and the students worked beautifully together and made some very special memories and tasty food and created a peaceful harmonious environment for all to enjoy. The peace pole project was well received by the entire school.
We are so grateful that we are able to receive funds to create such a peaceful intergenerational community involvement here at Waikīkī School. We hope to inspire other schools to create peace Gardens and involve kūpuna in their plans to do so.
Grant Projects
- Sunscreen Police
- Mahiʻai Kalo Presentation
- Pre-KinderGARDEN for ʻEwa Keiki
- Kupuna Peace Education Project
- Preserving Healthy Harvest
- Garden Kitchen
- Pukalani’s Project Based Learning Garden
- Growing Cherry Tomatoes, Herbs and Lettuce
- Assets School Garden
- HBA Garden Expansion Project
- Vermicomposting System Project
- Peace and Sustainability Garden
- 6th Grade Smoothie Competition
- Kaulana Kawa
- What is Required to Feed Our Community?
- The Fork Project
- Pono Ponic Project
- MOMI Compost System Expansion
- Gardening Nutrition Health Project
- Fern is Where We Learn Hydroponics
- ʻĀINA Nutrition
- Conservation Station Project
- Solar Panels on the Garden
- Huli Ka Lima i Lalo
- Composting at Kaʻelepulu
- Mosaic Debris Mural Project
- Stewards of the Earth
- ʻEleʻele Preschool Garden Project
- Urban Garden Expansion
- Food Waste Reduction Program
- From Field to Table
- ʻĀINA In Schools Nutrition Education
- Hanalei Taro Presentation and Demonstration
- Kolea Gardens Project
- GreenHouse Growing Project
- Nutrition Garden Project
- ʻĀi Pono Garden
- Rain Garden Project
- Kawaikini PCS School Garden
- #sporkitup
- Aquaponics Garden Project
- Special Education Vital Skills Recycle Project
- Aiea Aquaponics/Agriculture Project
- Building a Healthier Campus: Mind, Body and Community
- Konawaena High School Garden Project
- Native Plant Rain Garden