Community Partnerships
Kapa maker Kaʻiulani de Silva, left, with mixed-media artisan and educator Mahi La Pierre at MHC's 2018 Educator & Cultural Practitioner Open House. 
Volunteers work with expert Hawaiian dry-stack stone mason Billy Fields to restore a portion of the stone wall in Lila's White Garden. 
Hōkūleʻa navigator Cat Fuller explains the Hawaiian Star Compass and Polynesian navigation to visitors. 
Students learn about and practice techniques of lauhala weaving and lei hulu (featherwork) from Kumu Aloha Kekipi at one of MHCʻs Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke workshops. 
Participants, including MHC founder Mary Cooke, learn the art of ipu pyrography from Kumu Tamsen Fox. 
Moani Hibbard of Botanica Skincare, far right, teaches students about the power plants and assists them in creating their own lip balm. 
11th and 12 graders from Mid-Pacific Instituteʻs Historic Preservation class setting up their equipment to do a 3-D LiDAR scan of Kūkaʻōʻō Heiau.
Mānoa Heritage Center is fortunate to partner with organizations, agencies, schools, and cultural practitioners in our ahupuaʻa and beyond to build a vibrant community connected to land, culture and place. We are grateful to the following partners who work so hard to promote an understanding of Hawaiʻi’s cultural and natural heritage.
- Ala Wai Elementary School
- Aloha Kekipi
- August Ahrens Elementary School
- Awaiaulu
- Bill Char
- Billy Fields
- Blanche Pope Elementary School
- Catherine Fuller
- Central Pacific College
- Chaminade University
- East-West Center
- Education Incubator
- The EPIC Foundation
- Hālau Hula Ka Noʻeau
- Hālau Kū Māna
- Hanahauʻoli School
- Hauʻula Elementary School
- Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities
- Hawaiʻi Department of Health SNAP-Ed
- Hawaiʻi Green Growth
- Hawai‘i Kāhuli
A new, comprehensive website funded by a grant from the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities
Once thriving in every island ridge and valley, Hawaiʻi’s endemic kāhuli (snails) are now critically endangered. The beautifully designed HawaiiKahuli.org website will help inspire greater interest in and understanding of these ‘jewels of the forest,’ celebrated in Hawaiian moʻolelo, oli, and song as a symbol for both balance and change. Developed by Daniel A. Kelin, II, Director of Education with Honolulu Theatre for Youth, an entire section provides engaging activities, detailed information and downloadable handouts freely available to all schools.
The website profiles a wide range of captivating, yet underappreciated kāhuli species by exploring their scientific, cultural and environmental significance to ask necessary questions about Hawaiʻi’s ecological, and human, future.
- Hawaiʻi Museums Association
- Hawaiʻi Rainbow Academy
- Hawaiʻi State Department of Education
- Hawaiʻi State Department of Education Nānākuli-Waiʻanae Complex Area
- Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority
- Hawaiian Historical Society
- Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge
- Hōkūlani Elementary School
- Honolulu District Kupuna Program
- Honolulu Home Educated Keiki
- Honowai Elementary School
- ʻIliahi Shawn Doo
- Institute of Intensive English
- Kaʻala Elementary School
- Kaʻewai Elementary School
- Kaimuki Christian School
- Kaʻiulani de Silva
- Kalihi Kai Elementary School
- Kalihi Waena Elementary School
- Kamaile Academy Public Charter School
- Kamehameha Schools Kāpalama Campus
- Kamiloʻiki Elementary School
- Kapiolani Community College
- Keiki O Ka ʻĀina
- Kimo Keaulana
- Kupu
- Ladd Heleloa
- La Pietra – Hawaii School for Girls
- Le Jardin Academy
- Leeward Community College
- Lokoʻolu Quintero
- Mahi La Pierre
- Major General William R. Shafter Elementary School
- Mālama Mānoa
- Mānoa Elementary School
- Marine Corps Base Hawaii Homeschool
- Mayor John H. Wilson Elementary School
- Michael Pili Pang
- Mid-Pacific Institute
- Moani Hibbard
- Mōʻiliʻili Community Center
- Mokapu Elementary School
- Montessori Community School
- MoʻO School
- Myron B. Thompson Academy
- Nānāikapono Elementary School
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Oahu Visitors Bureau
- Obama Foundation
- Office of Hawaiian Education
- Partners in Development
- Punahou School
- Pūnana Leo o Mānoa
- Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani Elementary School
- Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Pacific
- Royal Elementary School
- Saint Francis School
- Saint Patrick School
- Saint Theresa School
- Samuel Wilder King Intermediate School
- Schofield Barracks Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
- Soong Ching Ling school
- St. Clement’s School
- Susannah Wesley Community Center
- Tai Crouch
- Tamsen Fox
- Tiki’s Grill and Bar
- Tom Penna
- Trinity Christian School
- ʻUmi Kai
- The University of Hawaiʻi Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Children’s Center
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education STEMS²
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Faculty and Scholar Immigration Services
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Information Technology Services Academic Technologies
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Office of Public Health Studies
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Architecture
- University Laboratory School: A Hawaiʻi Public Charter School
- Waiʻanae Elementary School
- Waikīkī Aquarium
- Waolani Judd Nazarene School
- Windward YMCA
