Hawai'i Environmental Funders Group

The Hawai‘i Environmental Funders Group (HEFG) is a network of philanthropic individuals and institutions engaged in active, substantial grantmaking to promote environmental and community sustainability in the Hawaiian Islands. The HEFG’s purpose is to foster peer learning and collaboration among its members and to steadily increase philanthropic support from both inside and outside of the state for environmental and sustainability efforts in Hawai‘i.

HEFG members are thinkers and leaders who are interested in an array of topics including conservation, biocultural restoration, climate resiliency and adaptation, renewable energy, agriculture and food security, long-term sustainability, environmental justice, green infrastructure, and more.

“The HEFG is a welcoming space to learn from one another and from our communities and partners working every day to grow resilient, caring, reciprocal relationships between people and ʻāina (land, “that which feeds”).”

— Amber Datta, Harold K.L. Castle Foundation

Key Roles

  • Melissa Hampe, Biodiversity Funders Group – Program Manager
  • Kimberly Thayer, Biodiversity Funders Group – Program Manager
  • Amber Datta, Harold K.L. Castle Foundation – Co-chair
  • Jason Jeremiah, Kamehameha Schools – Co-chair
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