Project Grant Library
Teachers from Hawai’i public schools can apply for Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation Project Grants to help advance their environmental education goals. Previous grantees have used KHF funds for garden supplies, eco-footprint workshops, vermicompost trainings, and more. One school has raised enough worms to start a commercial-scale vermicomposting bin for their campus food waste!
HBA Garden Expansion Project
Hawaii Baptist Academy, Honolulu, OʻahuHawaiʻi Baptist Academy students wanted to reduce the amount of food waste produced on campus and wrote for a Hawaiʻi Youth Sustainability Challenge grant to fund their project. They developed an implementation plan for collecting food waste on the high school campus and composting it using worm bins and hot compost piles. The resulting compost would be used to feed the school gardens, which also received a new fence installed by the students.
The project advisor writes, “The students had a chance to take ownership of something that will become their legacy at this school. It’s really been a surprising unifier among our whole school community as several people have been inspired to start their own worm bins, donate materials to the garden, etc...”
“There has been a significant increase in awareness of environmental issues around campus. Students, faculty, and staff have taken a greater interest in being good stewards and are more enthusiastic about caring for the environment. The enrollment is AP Environmental Science has doubled for next year and our second annual Earth Day Fair expanded from one day to a week-long celebration.”
Grant Projects
- Sunscreen Police
- Mahiʻai Kalo Presentation
- Pre-KinderGARDEN for ʻEwa Keiki
- Kupuna Peace Education Project
- Preserving Healthy Harvest
- Garden Kitchen
- Pukalani’s Project Based Learning Garden
- Growing Cherry Tomatoes, Herbs and Lettuce
- Assets School Garden
- HBA Garden Expansion Project
- Vermicomposting System Project
- Peace and Sustainability Garden
- 6th Grade Smoothie Competition
- Kaulana Kawa
- What is Required to Feed Our Community?
- The Fork Project
- Pono Ponic Project
- MOMI Compost System Expansion
- Gardening Nutrition Health Project
- Fern is Where We Learn Hydroponics
- ʻĀINA Nutrition
- Conservation Station Project
- Solar Panels on the Garden
- Huli Ka Lima i Lalo
- Composting at Kaʻelepulu
- Mosaic Debris Mural Project
- Stewards of the Earth
- ʻEleʻele Preschool Garden Project
- Urban Garden Expansion
- Food Waste Reduction Program
- From Field to Table
- ʻĀINA In Schools Nutrition Education
- Hanalei Taro Presentation and Demonstration
- Kolea Gardens Project
- GreenHouse Growing Project
- Nutrition Garden Project
- ʻĀi Pono Garden
- Rain Garden Project
- Kawaikini PCS School Garden
- #sporkitup
- Aquaponics Garden Project
- Special Education Vital Skills Recycle Project
- Aiea Aquaponics/Agriculture Project
- Building a Healthier Campus: Mind, Body and Community
- Konawaena High School Garden Project
- Native Plant Rain Garden