2026 Climate Resiliency GrantsTotal: $1,091,206.89
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| Chef Hui | An emergency unsolicited grant to Chef Hui, in partnership with Hawaiʻi Foodbank, KEY Project, and Kapiʻolani Community College, to prepare and deliver hot and ready meals to flood victims in Koʻolau and North Shore communities | $25,000 |
| Hawaiʻi Community Lending, Inc. | Unsolicited grant to Hawaiʻi Community Lending in close partnership with KEY Project: To launch a new recoverable grants program with rigorous case management that can provide up-front support to rehome Ko’olau families displaced from the Kona Low floods until insurance claims, loans or government aid is secured | $300,000 |
| Hawaiʻi Foodbank, Inc. | To build a new food storage and distribution center to dramatically increase the ability to feed a growing population of residents in need throughout Oʻahu and the state | $400,000 |
| Hawaiʻi Foodbank, Inc. | Unsolicited grant to Hawaiʻi Foodbank, Inc. to ship additional food, water and basic supplies to Kauaʻi in response to Hurricane Lowell | $10,000 |
| Honolulu Civil Beat | To educate Hawaiʻi’s public to the realities of climate change in our islands, how climate affects us directly and indirectly, and what can be done | $25,000 |
| Na Maka Onaona | Unsolicited grant to Na Maka Onaona to support local heavy machinery and construction with community members who are providing kōkua in response to Hurricane Lowell | $10,000 |
| Vibrant Hawaiʻi | To strengthen and grow the operational readiness of the network of community resilience hubs in Koʻolau | $321,206.89 |
2025 Climate Resiliency GrantsTotal: $665,000
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| City and County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency | Fostering Resilience: Transitioning the Policy and Grants Specialist to a civil service position and implementing the Climate Ready Oʻahu plan in Koʻolau through the Climate Champions Program | $200,000 |
| Hawai’i Appleseed Center For Law And Economic Justice | Building Resilience Through Climate and Economic Justice: Expand climate impact advocacy | $75,000 |
| Hawai’i Leadership Forum | Co-creating a Climate Fellows program and developing a network of climate leaders across government, business and private sectors in Hawaiʻi | $100,000 |
| Hawaiian Council | Launching the Kalāhiki program: an effort to provide resilience audits and install climate resilience retrofits for Low-to-Moderate Income homes primarily focused in Waimānalo | $175,000 |
| Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi | Fortifying Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi’s existing commercial kitchen to also serve as a resilience hub and disaster distribution center | $50,000 |
| Livable Hawai’i Kai Hui | For Livable Hawaiʻi Kai Hui to convene a broad array of East Oʻahu community, for-profits, non-profits and government for a two-day symposium that will generate a Community Climate Mandate report aimed at augmenting three Honolulu City & County (HC&C) plans with substantive climate resiliency measures | $15,000 |
| Sierra Club Foundation, fiscal sponsor of Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi | Developing and piloting a first-of-its-kind climate training course targeting at least 50 civil servants at all levels of local government on climate-change impacts to Hawaiʻi and opportunities to address them through existing policy to improve awareness and decision-making | $50,000 |
2024 Climate Resiliency GrantsTotal: $140,000
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| Vibrant Hawaiʻi | For Vibrant Hawaiʻi to scale successful early work and establish a network of community-based climate resilience hubs in Koʻolau | $100,000 |
| Vibrant Hawai’i | To develop a network of resilience hubs across Windward Oʻahu | $40,000 |