For years, entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders have been told to hustle harder, move faster, and compete better. But in Hawaiʻi, many of us know a different truth: the strongest work grows through relationship.

Right now, Indigenous-led nonprofits are being asked to do more than ever—while receiving only a fraction of the resources needed to sustain their work. Across the United States, for every $100 given by philanthropy, only about 10 cents reaches Indigenous communities…