Our Services
Upon determining your needs, we apply our experience and tap into our network of collaborators and subject matter experts to strategically tailor and implement a plan. We offer a comprehensive menu of services to help you achieve your goals.
Meaningful Community Engagement
From uplifting voices in the most rural reaches of the state to informing a path toward resolving longstanding conflict, our team offers outreach and engagement facilitation from conception to implementation. Building on our strong community roots, we bring people together, with a core belief that the best decisions are shaped by a rich tapestry of diverse perspectives.
Strategic Communications
Our team’s decades of experience navigating Hawaii’s unique political, economic, and cultural landscape inform our approach in developing each client’s strategic communications framework. We evaluate gaps in current communications, advise on relationships in the community, and execute strategies that overcome challenges and build on strengths in a rapidly evolving world.
Grants Strategy and Assistance
Our team guides and supports applicants statewide and across the country. From building capacity for emerging grassroots nonprofits to supporting multi-billion dollar state agencies, our team assists entities of all sizes throughout the pre-award grants process. To meet varying needs, we assess readiness, design and conduct training, and provide technical assistance services including writing, reviewing, editing, and submitting applications.
Navigating in Hawaii
We bring generational roots and community connections to every project. Our team assists clients every step of the way to realize visions that are grounded in Hawaii’s culture, practices, places, and people. We believe in overcoming challenges with place-based solutions that help people, organizations, businesses, and ecosystems thrive across the pae aina (Hawaiian islands).
Government Relations
We bring years of experience to shape policy and secure streams of public funding. We advise and support entities to obtain federal funding through various means such as Congressionally-Directed spending and new initiatives. Building on our network spanning from local government to Capitol Hill, we shape strategies to build relationships at county, state, and federal levels to gain political and public support for key priorities.
Conference and Workshop Design
Our team assists in designing events to build and inspire community and attendees and panelists. We leverage cross-sector expertise in program and content development, identification of speakers and panelists, as well as venue selection to ensure an impactful and valuable experience that will draw and engage attendees year after year.