2025-05-15T14:25:24-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 990271743 HUI O KUAPA HUIO 8085518671 99205 Kamehameha HWY Kaunakakai HI 96748 Joe Farber Project Manager 8085518671 2025-05-15 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://huiokuapa.org X X 183736 X 180607 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3129 2306 823 0 181430 0 0 38621 32868 4062 800 59708 136059 45371 127688 0 173059 X 124670 170758 0 0 3018 2301 127688 173059 0 0 127688 173059 WE EDUCATE COMMUNITIES ABOUT NATIVE HAWAIIAN RESOURCE MGMT AND FOOD SECURITY THROUGH THE RESTORATION AND MAINTENANCE OF HISTORIC, ANCIENT, AND CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT ROCK WALLED FISHPOND AND ROCK LINED TERRACED WETLAND FARM PLOTS GROWING TARO, AND GARDENS. WE HOST OVER 1,000 PEOPLE A YEAR INCL MOLOKAI K-12 STUDENTS. WE SHARE THE FOOD THAT WE PRODUCE WITH THE COMMUNITY. WE CREATE DIGITAL CONTENT ABOUT THE WORK WE DO TO BROADCAST TO A GLOBAL AUDIENCE. Agriculture and aquaculture restoration on Molokai Island at Ohalahala Fishpond and wetland taro and gardens. To date we have restored over 350ft of Ohalahala Fishpond wall conducting monthly workdays with a core group of Molokai experts. Every quarter we hold workdays that are open to the public with about 15 community members per event participating. 1. We have Cleared 1 acre of ancient rock walled wetland taro plots (loi), which includes restoring two rock-walled terraces, the existing water ditch path, and reopened direct access to the stream. We planted 150 taro seedlings which is on track with our goal to open loi and plant 120 taro huli every six months-thus, in constant rotation and at least 240 huli harvested every year. This equals about 600 pounds of taro, most which will be processed into poi. 2. Mala (garden). We continue to clear land and plant, expanding our garden as well as enclosing it with 4-6ft high chainlink fence to protect it from invasive ungulates, pig and deer-due to an island-wide drought, which have been decimating our produce. We have distributed free over 1,500 pounds of produce from the garden. We provided over 200 meals to our visitors, sourced from our garden, surrounding lands, and fishpond. 29265 20983 Education. In the spring of 2024 we completed construction of a two-stall restroom with sinks and showers on a septic tank system to service visiting school field trips, and other visiting community groups and hosted events. These facilities will allow us to expand our services in providing hands-on immersive educational experiences. Each year we work with groups from all the four elementary schools on Molokai, as well as the two secondary schools, Molokai Intermediate and High School. Services provided to the Molokai Schools include multiple outreach visits to classrooms and larger school assemblies and field trips to Ohalahala Fishpond, Honouliwai Stream and the gardens. We also co-host with student visits via Molokai Digital Bus (mobile science and technology bus). We hosted 18 field trips with 480 students and 120 teachers. We hosted 10 community group events to work in the fishpond and gardens, over 100 participants of all ages. On October 5 & 6 we conducted our first large overnight gathering (with camping and meals provided on-site) of skilled fishpond practitioners to help rebuild the fishpond. We hosted about 30 volunteers from Molokai, 60 from Kauai, 9 from Maui, about 8 from Oahu, and 10 school principals from Hawaii charter schools. With our partner, Ka Hale Hoaka, online Hawaiian learning school, we hosted a two-day professional development Teacher training workshop which participants, mostly Hawaii Dept of Education Charter School teachers and administrators. Lahinaluna High School Song Project. The students of Lahinaluna HS, grades 9-12 (post fire, which destroyed the town of Lahina) traveled to Molokai where they spent 4 days camping, working in the fishpond and gardens and writing songs. Prior to their visit to Molokai, HOK staff conducted 4 in-class workshops at Lahinaluna. The finished song along with a 5-minute highlight video can be found online via popular media platforms (YouTube, Spotify). 26202 26202 Multimedia Projects. We document all our actitives through video and stills images, posting them to our social scial media sites (FB, IG) along with continually upgrading our web-site (huiokuapa.org). Explorers Video Series; "Ka Hale Hoaka Explores TV," a Hawaiian environmental educational series, hosted on YouTube. Six 25-minute episodes have been produced to date with over 20,000 views. Two new episodes dropped in Spring/Summer 2024. In March 2024 We entered a song for NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest. The Hookupu Collective gathered back on Molokai to create and record a new song, Imu Stones. It was submitted to for their nationwide talent contest and multi-city concert tour. HOK Produced Hookupu: A Hip Hop anthology of Hawaiian History in October 2022 to major music platforms. We performed the album at La Hoihoi Ea Festival (July 2024), at the East West Center-Pacific Islands Young Leaders Conference (Feb 2024) and at The Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture (Festpac) in June 2024. Our Molokai Nui a Hina Mural Project hosts and teaches storytelling and art for our community. We have produced the first set of mural prints for the high school and created a virtual gallery on-line. 6508 6508 Lahina Maui Fire Relief Efforts. We received a $20,000 grant, acting as the fiscal sponsors for the Lahina community organization Kaiaulu Initiatives, to help assist in post-fire relief efforts. These monies were used to purchase $21,001 in equipment (a water tank $10,471, irrigation supplies and hand tools, creation of a native plant nursery) in the effort to replace and replant the abandoned, fallow lands above Lahaina which are overrun by invasive plants that fuel wildfires with native plants that will serve as a natural fire break from Lahina town below, downwind. 21001 21001 74694 Guy Hanohano Naehu Board President, Program Field Specialist 19 30300 1170 Tanya Maile Naehu Board Vice President, Program Director 19 3000 Joseph Farber Administrator, Board Treasurer 19 22880 Sebastian Kahale Ramos Independent Contractor, Video, film and music producer 8.00 6915 Sonja Angst Independent Contractor, Web Master, social media 2 575 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 HI Joseph Farber 99205 Kamehameha HWY Kaunakakai HI 96748 8085518671 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 29022 38143 76300 168965 180607 493037 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29022 38143 76300 168965 180607 493037 493037 0 0 818 414 823 2055 495092 0.99585 0.99662 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 - Sale of organization merchandise, i.e., hats, stickers, music CD, and t-shirts. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 - Quickbooks accounting sofware subscription, $2,361; Travel, outreach, attend conferences, $5,363; Fishpond workshop and camp out gathering 125 ppl 3 days supplies, $4,847; Lahinaluna High School song writing camp, $3,186; Hire buses 4 times to bring students to our field site, $1,425; Equipment and supplies to build a 2-stall toilet and enclosed shower to service visitors, $10,258; Supplies to erect 4ft high deer fencing to protect farm and stream from invasive deer and pig, $4,371; Equipment and tools to clear and farm lands, restore fishpond and stream habitat and host school kids, incl. Hand tools ie, chainsaws and weed wackers, tool shed, air gun for invasive pests; small PA system, $6,896. Total Other Expenses, $38,707. Assist the Lahina, Maui community impacted by the August, 8 2023 wildfire. We received a $20,000 grant, acting as the fiscal sponsors for the community organization Kaiaulu Initiatives, to help post-fire relief efforts. These monies were used purchased $21,001 in equipment (a water tank, irrigation supplies and hand tools) to replace the abandoned, fallow lands above Lahaina which are overrun by invasive plants that fuel wildfires with native plants that will serve as a natural fire break from the Lahina town below, downwind. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 - Year-end merchandise inventory (t-shirts, stickers, hats, Music CDs), $2,301.00