Nearshore Marine Resource Conservation Grant is sponsored by Harold K. L. Castle Foundation.

This grant seeks to enhance Hawaii's coastal ecosystems through collaborative governance. It focuses on reducing land-based pollution, improving resource management capacity, and fostering community engagement.

Recent Grants: Nearshore Marine Resource Conservation - Harold K. L.

Castle Foundation Conservation International Foundation To amplify the impact of restoring groundwater flow at Kalauha’iha’i fishpond for limu and for the broader nearshore ecosystem in Maunalua Bay Malama Learning Center Corp To raise public awareness of nearshore water quality challenges and solutions and grow public support for new conservation funds including the Green Fee and DLNR’s Aloha I Ke Kai fund Core operating support to coordinate the Holomua Initiative and Care for ‘Āina Now Coalition, to support Hawaiʻi county with cesspool conversions and to convene Climate Ambition Hui as a durable climate strategy hub University of Hawaiʻi Foundation For the new University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Fisheries graduate program to bolster local conservation capacity and broaden the knowledge base for nearshore fisheries management by supporting a pilot graduate fellowship for a local student to co-produce research with a local community organization(s) University of Hawaiʻi Foundation To amplify the impact of restoring groundwater flow at Kalauha’iha’i fishpond for limu and for the broader nearshore ecosystem in Maunalua Bay Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance Foundation To the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance Foundation: by hiring those impacted by federal funding cuts to provide immediate research and management needs of established government, nonprofit, and community partners To the Hawaiʻi Green Growth: to support our continued membership and progress on Hawaiʻi’s Aloha+Challenge, as well as related marine management metrics development Worth the wait: Focus on new rule-making, education, and community-led human use and in-water monitoring at Kaʻūpūlehu and Kūkiʻo, Hawaiʻi Island To Kalanihale: to hoʻokumu (initiate) Kai Kuleana Network to advance community-led conservation by establishing as a permanent, independent network of communities that support each other through shared learning and capacity, collaborative stewardship, and a unified voice for West Hawaiʻi A challenge grant to increase the efficiency of loko i’a (fishpond) restoration by Mālama Huleʻia through the purchase of the first amphibious exacavator on Kauaʻi for use by this and likely other communities for ecologically sensitive dredging and mangrove clearing to improve native bird and fish nursery habitat A one-time grant to Mālama Maunalua to bring together researchers, managers, and community members for the 4th Hawaiʻi Coral Symposium, which will focus on improving collaboration and increasing clarity on the future direction of coral restoration efforts in Hawaiʻi To Mālama Maunalua: for sustained adaptive co-management capacity by creating a community advisory body, testing new monitoring technologies and coordinating community-involved monitoring approaches in Maunalua Bay To build long-term organizational capacity by strengthening internal leadership and developing sustainable fundraising and communications strategies through targeted coaching, mission-aligned merchandise, and strategic engagement around their 20th anniversary Unrestricted core operating support for Ho’omau: Continuing policy guidance and coordination for the Holomua Marine Initiative and Care for ‘Āina Now Wastewater Alternatives and Innovations Advancing Decentralized Clean Water Solutions for Hawaiʻi ’s Communities: Focus on converting cesspools and cleaner wastewater solutions through better monitoring, expanded neighborhood-scale wastewater solutions, and a trained a local workforce Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance Foundation For the next phase of the Ahupuaʻa Accelerator, a program to expand watershed-wide community management that has expanded to 46 partners statewide To allow Hawaiʻi Green Growth to continue to populate the state’s 2030 sustainability goals dashboard and to spur action to achieve these goals Mālama Learning Center Corp Marine Management Moʻolelo: Expanding Public Support of Holomua: Marine 30 x 30 through story-telling about the people of Hawaiʻi DLNR-DAR and DOCARE Mālama Learning Center Corp To produce another eight segments for local popular cable show Outside Hawaiʻi that humanizes DLNR and socializes the intentions and actions of the Holomua Initiative To help advance the Holomua Initiative by better aligning pro-fishing perspectives with those of governmental agencies, community groups, and environmental organizations To help advance the Holomua Initiative and the Care for ‘Āina Now Coalition (formerly Green Fee) environmental capital formation work To work with a coalition of partners to catalyze cesspool conversions at a meaningful scale sufficient to meet the State’s 2050 goal for 100% conversion The Nature Conservancy of Hawai’i To continue their decades-long work with communities and the State on Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, as well as initiating new work on Kauaʻi