ChangeMakers Hawai‘i is catalyzing change and creating economic opportunities for Hawai‘i communities that traditional finance does not serve. We do this through our five core values.

Our Values

ChangeMakers Hawaiʻi incorporate market data from traditional sources with place-based knowledge. ChangeMakers connects community stories and experiences with quantitative analysis to understand each place through a multi-capital framework that re-imagines value.

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Engaging Community Wisdom:

As a practice, ChangeMakers work with the community to map their unique ecosystem of resources, relationships, cultures, and power dynamics that are unique to them. We identify and harness a multi-capital framework to multiply the community's strengths.

2.

Creating Ecosystem Impact:

ChangeMakers’ investments focus on supporting strengths and capacities of people, organizations, and natural environments. We invest in small businesses, nonprofits, and service providers in the communities we are developing and the ecosystem impact.

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Working from Strengths:

ChangeMakers utilizes participatory investing. Participatory investing cedes decision-making power about funding— including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions—to the very communities that funders aim to serve. Participatory investing increases participants’ sense of agency, power, and leadership.

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Sharing Power:

At ChangeMakers Hawaiʻi, we know change takes “acting boldly.” We are imagining and creating new ecosystems of community power by challenging antiquated systems and engaging people in daring to act boldly.

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Acting Boldly:

Our Purpose

ChangeMakers Hawaiʻi nurtures thriving communities by empowering people to pursue the work they love, connect with resources that build stability, and grow a future rooted in the strength of our ʻāina and the dreams of our people.

ChangeMakers Hawaiʻi offers programs designed to meet you where you are at, whether you’re an individual, business, or community group/ organization.

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Stewarding legacies. At ChangeMakers Hawaiʻi, our ʻĀinapreneurs Program empowers entrepreneurs rooted in aloha ʻāina and cultural integrity. We support side hustles, growth with capital, and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi in business—uplifting people, place, and purpose. Through tools, training, and deep guidance, we help build thriving, sustainable ventures that strengthen Hawaiʻi’s future.
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Unlocking potential with purpose and empowering Indigenous professionals with culturally grounded fundraising skills. Our courses are thoughtfully crafted to honor indigenous values while equipping you with practical expertise to drive meaningful change in your community.
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People empowering purpose. KanakaMob’s goal is to be a Workforce Development Collective that engages cross-sector partners, purpose-filled professions that allow Hawaiʻi’s people to continue to live, thrive and contribute to the communities they call home.
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