Progressing While Protecting
A Native Hawaiian-led nonprofit restoring the deep connection between ʻāina, culture, and community on the Island of Hawaiʻi — through traditional agriculture, land-based cultural experiences, and regenerative community enterprise.
Who We Are
Holo Mālama exists to advance sustainable progress while honoring our responsibility to protect the people, culture, and natural resources that sustain our communities. We build and sustain a Native Hawaiian-led ecosystem of ʻāina-based cultural experiences, traditional agricultural practices, and community enterprises on the Island of Hawaiʻi that honors the past, sustains the present, and shapes the future of Hawaiian tourism and community life.
What We Do
Our work is grounded in the ahupuaʻa — the traditional Hawaiian land management system that connects mountain to sea. Each of our three program pillars honors a different dimension of that relationship.
Immersive, protocol-guided visitor experiences that connect guests directly with Native Hawaiian culture, land, and knowledge holders. These are not performances — they are invitations into a living culture.
Restoring and perpetuating traditional Hawaiian agricultural systems — from loʻi kalo (taro pond fields) to ahupuaʻa-scale land management — as living practice, not museum exhibit.
Building Native Hawaiian economic self-determination through a marketplace platform, entrepreneurship training, and community-led enterprise — putting resources and agency back where they belong.
Rooted in Place
The ahupuaʻa is the traditional Hawaiian land division running from mountain summit to the sea — a complete, self-sustaining ecological and cultural system. Our work is designed to honor, restore, and operate within this framework. Hilo and the East Hawaiʻi ahupuaʻa are our home, our classroom, and our responsibility.
Leadership
Holo Mālama was founded by three individuals who share a deep commitment to Hawaiian cultural perpetuation, community economic empowerment, and the long-term wellbeing of the ʻāina.
Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and the organizational heart of Holo Mālama. Tiffany brings deep community ties, cultural knowledge, and the leadership vision that grounds everything we do in authentic Hawaiian values and community accountability.
Programs & Outreach Director with deep community connections and a commitment to meaningful, relationship-based engagement. James leads the design and delivery of Holo Mālama's community-facing programs and partnerships across the Island of Hawaiʻi.
Regenerative agriculture practitioner, permaculture designer, and nonprofit strategist. Sam brings hands-on land stewardship experience, organizational infrastructure expertise, and a philosophy of accountability and honest collaboration to Holo Mālama's operations.
Get In Touch
Whether you are a potential partner, a cultural practitioner, a visitor, a funder, or a community member — we welcome the connection. Every relationship begins with a conversation.
"Holo" — to sail, to move forward with intention.
"Mālama" — to care for, to protect, to hold the light.
Moving forward through stewardship.