Board of Directors
The current Board of Directors consists of 15 seats, 12 of which are elected by the membership. Three seats are designated as diversity seats and appointed by the Board to ensure a well rounded representation of community development areas reflected in our communities. Directors serve for three-year terms, five of which expire each year and are filled by member elections each summer.
Na Lei Na‘auao Alliance
Expires 2012
The mission of Na Lei Na‘auao Native Hawaiian Charter School Alliance is to establish models of education throughout the Hawaiian Islands which are community-designed and controlled and reflect, respect, and embrace Hawaiian cultural values, philosophies, and ideologies.
Representative(s): Alvin N. Parker; Alapaki Nahale-a (alternate)
Native Hawaiian Economic Alliance
Expires 2010
The Native Hawaiian Economic Alliance is a collaborative partnership of Native Hawaiian businesses and nonprofit organizations whose goals are to increase the amount of work for Native Hawaiian firms; to enhance employment and career opportunities for Hawaii residents; to foster leadership and innovation through education, training and mentoring; to diversify and develop the capacity of Hawaii’s local business economy; and to promote sound economic and community development.
Representative(s): William Ornellas; Li Garcia-Ballard (alternate); Austin Nakoa (alternate)
Na Pualei o Likolehua
Expires 2012
Na Pualei o Likolehua is dedicated to training young women in the art of hula and Hawaiian culture. Its mission is to prepare young women to become kumu hula, practitioners of Hawaiian culture and to carry on the traditions surrounding hula. The organization strives to uphold the values of traditional protocol to remain actively responsible to the ‘aina and to empower the Hawaiian people through education.
Representative(s): Leina‘ala Kalama Heine; Piilani Hanohano (alternate)
Papakolea Community Development Corporation
Expires 2010
Papakolea Community Development Corporation was organized to provide residents of the Papakolea, Kalawahine and Kewalo Hawaiian Homesteads with a full range of comprehensive services which would include, but not be limited to life-long educational experiences; health and wellness services; human services; and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Representative(s): Harold Johnston; Puni Kekauoha (alternate)
Hawaiian Community Assets
Expires 2010
Hawaiian Community Assets (HCA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that uses homeownership as a tool to build, strengthen, and sustain Hawaiian families and communities for future generations. HCA is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Hawaii's only non-profit mortgage broker.
Representative(s): Michelle Kauhane; Kehau Filimoeatu (alternate)
Friends of Moku‘ula, Inc.
Expires 2011
Kanaka Maoli o Kaleponi acts as a community outreach and resource and referral network for the California Native Hawaiian community for the purpose of initiating community development and capacity building programs focused on improving and enhancing the cultural, educational, employment, health, and overall socio-economic status of Native Hawaiians to help them achieve self-sufficiency through self-governance.
Representative(s): Andrew Ah Po; Jan Allianic (alternate)
Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission
Expires 2011
The mission of Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission is to provide a meaningful, safe use of Kaho‘olawe for traditional and cultural practices of the Native Hawaiian people, and to undertake the restoration of the island and its waters.
Representative(s): Michael Naho‘opi‘i; Carol-Marie Kaonohi Lee (alternate)
Kanaka Maoli o Kaleponi
Expires 2011
Kanaka Maoli o Kaleponi acts as a community outreach and resource and referral network for the California Native Hawaiian community for the purpose of initiating community development and capacity building programs focused on improving and enhancing the cultural, educational, employment, health, and overall socio-economic status of Native Hawaiians to help them achieve self-sufficiency through self-governance.
Representative(s): Andrew Ah Po; Jan Allianic (alternate)
Na Mea Hawai‘i/Native Books (Diversity Seat)
Expires 2012
Na Mea Hawai‘i (Native Books) is a community resource devoted to providing opportunities for Hawaiians who make cultural products and hand-made items to sustain themselves economically. As a retail partner, Na Mea Hawai‘i offers venues in Kaka‘ako, Honolulu, Waikiki and downtown Honolulu for Hawaiian producers. The organization is focused on bringing raw materials needed for cultural products to market, teaching classes and workshops on how to make products, and learning more about customary Native practices.
Representative(s): Maile Meyer
Mainland Council Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs
Expires 2010
The mission of the Mainland Council Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs (MCAHCC) is to actively encourage and offer assistance to all Hawaiian Civic Clubs in MCAHCC in furthering education of all people of Hawaiian Ancestry; to take an active interest in the civic, economic, social, health, and moral welfare of respective community issues, particularly with reference to the people of Hawaiian ancestry; and to support programs of benefit to them and to the community at large while fostering a spirit of friendly aloha.
Representative(s): John Jensen
‘Ahahui Siwila Hawai‘i O Kapolei
Expires 2011
‘Ahahui Siwila Hawai‘i O Kapolei, kupa‘aina of Honouliuli is rooted with the kuleana to assure that cultural traditions and practices of na ‘oiwi o Hawai‘i are perpetuated by promoting cultural awareness and providing educational opportunities and an authentic Hawaiian presence in the Native community.
Representative(s): Lance Holden; Annelle Amaral (alternate)
Alaka‘ina Foundation
Expires 2012
The mission of the Alaka‘ina Foundation is to build leadership programs and opportunities for Native Hawaiian youth and to serve as a conduit to ensure young men and women have the skill sets and competencies to become effective leaders in Native Hawaiian and rural communities.
Representative(s): Philip Kahue
I Mua Group (Diversity Seat)
Expires 2011
The I Mua Groups aims to improve and maintain the quality of life of the kanaka maoli.
Representative(s): Mel Soong; Bob Moore (alternate); Eddie Lee (alternate)
Robert Lindsey, Trustee
Expires 2010
Individual Member (Diversity Seat)
Mr. Lindsey is a Native Hawaiian and has worked with Native Hawaiian communities for over 20 years. He currently serves as the Hawaii Island Trustee on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees and the Vice Chair of the Committee on Asset and Resource Management.