2026 Public Education GrantsTotal: $70,000
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| Design Thinking Hawaiʻi | Aloha Pathways Spring 2026 Pilot: Scaling Post-High School Planning Across Hawaiʻi Schools | $50,000 |
| Teach for America | Unsolicited support in celebration of 20 years of impact in Hawaiʻi | $20,000 |
2025 Public Education GrantsTotal: $1,784,650
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| 50CAN | For an unrestricted core operating grant in support of HawaiiKidsCAN strategic advocacy | $250,000 |
| Academy for Healthcare Innovation | To test and expand low-barrier certificate programs that lead to meaningful, well-paying positions with ample career growth, while creating pathways to post-secondary education | $150,000 |
| Building Industry Association of Hawaiʻi | Youth Apprenticeship Program Design | $35,000 |
| Ceeds Of Peace | Strengthening Visibility, Advocacy, and Impact of Afterschool and Community School Programs in Hawaiʻi: Support of the Hawaiʻi Afterschool Alliance’s capacity to build public and policymaker support to sustain afterschool, summer and community schools programs | $25,000 |
| ‘Ewalu Industries | CREATE Hawaiʻi: A Creative Industries & Business Leadership Youth Apprenticeship | $35,000 |
| Florida State University Research Foundation | Fundamentals of Literacy Coaching Train-the-Trainer Workshop for the Hawaiʻi Department of Education | $17,339 |
| Florida State University Research Foundation | Literacy Coaching for the Hawai’i Department of Education: to improve early literacy through a professional learning community (PLC) of complex area literacy leads that support school level literacy coaches and principals | $71,000 |
| Hawaiʻi Chamber of Commerce Foundation | Hālau Holomoana: a Maritime Youth Apprenticeship | $35,000 |
| Hawaiʻi Chamber of Commerce Foundation | To provide short-term bridge funding to connect K-12 students and employers through a range of work-based learning experiences that help young people explore viable careers in Hawaiʻi | $63,500 |
| Hawaiʻi Department of Education, OCID | MLSL Transitioneers: Develop and socialize a Middle Level Transitions Toolkit in schools and through middle level student councils | $15,000 |
| Hawaiʻi Department of Education, OCID | Expand Career and Technical Student Organizations to public middle schools | $45,000 |
| Hawaiʻi Preparatory Academy | To provide Hawaiʻi Preparatory Academy with $20,000 in support of College Horizons’ residential pre-college workshop for approximately 100 students of Native Hawaiian ancestry | $20,000 |
| Hawaiʻi Workforce Pipeline | To provide short-term bridge funding to connect K-12 students and employers through a range of work-based learning experiences that help young people explore viable careers in Hawaiʻi | $63,500 |
| Highlands Intermediate School | Building a Successful Partnership to Create Seamless Transitions from Intermediate to High School | $5,000 |
| Kaua’i Economic Development Board | To provide short-term bridge funding to connect K-12 students and employers through a range of work-based learning experiences that help young people explore viable careers in Hawaiʻi | $42,500 |
| Kohala Middle School | Bridging the Natural Resources Pathway from Middle to High School | $5,000 |
| Leadership Institue, Hawai’i Department of Education | To strengthen HIDOE middle level leadership networks and provide targeted support for school teams | $100,000 |
| Leadership Institue, Hawai’i Department of Education | Grow HI Department of Education’s Leadership Institute capacity to develop and support school-level, complex area and state leaders across the Department | $200,000 |
| Lift HI Foundation | To scale a promising effort that trains, prepares and places low-income and ALICE residents into jobs as a certified nurse aide | $122,400 |
| Moanalua Middle School | Moanalua High School Elective Exploration Day | $5,000 |
| University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Hawaiʻi Youth Auto Technician Apprenticeship | $35,000 |
| University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Research, design and support the development of a direct admissions process | $147,798 |
| University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Establish Educators Rising as a recognized Career and Technical Student Organization at the Hawaiʻi Department of Education | $76,000 |
| University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Redesigning with Kuleana: Preparing Elementary Educators for Hawaiʻi and Beyond – to redesign the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa College of Education undergraduate elementary education teacher preparation program with a focus on literacy instruction | $150,000 |
| University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | To scale and expand support for students in rural and neighbor island high schools to initiate and sustain professional relationships and build social capital | $30,613 |
| Vibrant Hawaiʻi | Hawaiʻi Island Apprenticeship Design Sprint | $35,000 |
| Waikoloa Elementary and Middle | The Kealakehe Complex Connection: Strengthening the Middle to High School Transitions from Kealakehe Intermediate and Waikoloa Elementary and Middle School to Kealakehe High School | $5,000 |
2024 Public Education GrantsTotal: $1,608,485
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| After-School All-Stars Hawai’i | To match an employee contribution | $500 |
| Center for Tomorrow’s Leaders | To strengthen the persuasive communication and writing of the roughly 300 high school students served each year | $80,000 |
| College Promise | To review and provide feedback on the Hawai’i Promise Initiative | $25,000 |
| College Summit Inc dba PeerForward | To scale a promising peer counseling model to four additional high schools | $224,985 |
| Hawai’i Association of Independent Schools | To the Hawai’i Association of Independent Schools to support an executive search process | $10,000 |
| Hawai’i Chamber of Commerce Foundation | To support employer collaboratives that help ensure students in Hawai’i are on clear pathways to high skill, high wage, in-demand careers and that help Hawai’i businesses have a highly skilled, local talent pipeline | $85,000 |
| Hawai’i Department of Education, OCID Extended Learning Branch | Support for Hawai’i Department of Education complex area teams to coordinate student-led student transition activities to and from middle school | $50,000 |
| Hawai’i Hospital Education and Research Foundation | To retrofit DOE classrooms for healthcare pathways in partnership with Hawai’i 3R’s, G70 and Hawai’i Pacific Health | $300,000 |
| Hawai’i Workforce Funders Collaborative | For the Hawai’i Workforce Funders Collaborative (HWFC) to cover membership dues that support the operative budget of this new organization that supports effective workforce development across the state of Hawai’i | $25,000 |
| Hilo High School | Support for post-high student transitions | $50,000 |
| Kailua High School | Support for post-high student transitions | $50,000 |
| Kapolei High School | Support for post-high student transitions – Huakaʻi Pono: Guiding Kapolei’s Youth Toward Their Future | $50,000 |
| Ka’u High and Pahala Elementary School | Ka’u High & Pahala Elementary School and Na’alehu Elementary School Transition Partnership | $7,500 |
| Kealakehe High School | Support for post-high student transitions and stronger senior capstone projects | $50,000 |
| Kula Elementary School PTA | Kula-Kalama Middle School Transition | $7,500 |
| Moanalua Middle School | Moanalua Middle School 6th Grade Transition | $7,500 |
| Molokaʻi High and Intermediate School | Support for post-high student transitions | $50,000 |
| New Teacher Center | To work alongside the Hawai’i Department of Education in building the support and resources that enable complex area leaders to bring effective mathematics coaching to their school communities | $180,000 |
| Niu Valley Middle | Future Forward: Bridging the Gap to High School and Careers | $3,000 |
| Oahu Resource Conservation and Development Council | To support strategic and sustainability planning for Pop-Ups Labs for STEAM (PULS) | $25,000 |
| Pahoa High and Intermediate School | Pahoa High and Intermediate School Middle School Academy Collaboration | $7,500 |
| Public Schools of Hawai’i Foundation | To launch a new effort that combines human and artificial intelligence to expand student support by offering more personalized navigational guidance and improving academic performance through targeted interventions | $67,500 |
| RiseHI Foundation | To support middle school youth in their development and career exploration | $50,000 |
| The American AI Forum aka AI Education Project | To deliver professional development that helps Hawai’i public school teachers better understand artificial intelligence (AI) and how to responsibly incorporate AI literacy into their curriculum | $115,000 |
| University of Hawai’i Foundation | To support The Right to Read: Film Screening & Discussion, as part of the UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series, to raise awareness about improving literacy education based in science in Hawaiʻi | $5,000 |
| University of Hawai’i Foundation | Investing in Teachers, Honoring Student Voices: The Hawai‘i Writing Project Young Writers Camp | $25,000 |
| Waiākea High School | Support for post-high student transitions for Waiakea Graduates | $50,000 |
| West Hawai’i Complex Area | West Hawai’i Middle School to High School Academy Transition Planning | $7,500 |