What We Fund

Youth education, youth advocacy and reducing childhood poverty – these are the broad funding focus areas for our grants supporting youth. While we do make exceptions, in general we prioritize the following in each category:

• Education: school-based programs for youth focused on educational attainment. We also reserve a small portion of our education grants budget for development of youth leaders.
• Advocacy: organizations working to support foster youth and prevent and treat child abuse.
• Reducing poverty: in the short term, organizations focused on childhood hunger; in the long-term, educational attainment and family support such as housing and education support.

Our environmental grants support climate change mitigation and organizations working to protect ecosystems.

The great majority of our grants are in support of youth and/or the environment. However, we do award a small amount of community grants, typically in response to an acute need. 

Banner Photo Credit: ʻIolani School’s KAʻI Program