2019-12-29 HCDP Community Action Guide FINAL REV COVER

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■ The Kohala Center focuses on many of the high priority issues in Hamakua — coastal management, food systems, renewable energy, and rural business development. The Kohala Center's Laulima Center for Rural Cooperative Business Development actively supports coops and other businesses in the area. ■ The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands owns homesteads and agricultural land in Hamakua. ■ The Nature Conservancy owns significant conservation lands and provides support for community- based resource management efforts. ■ The Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) in the State Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) has two full-time outreach coordinators on Hawai'i Island who work closely with community groups interested in forest stewardship. DOFAW has also an Access and Acquisitions Program Coordinator to work on access issues, including access for hunting. ■ Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Project (MKFRP) is a collaborative endeavor with the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit (PCSU) of UH-Manoa. ■ UH Sea Grant has extension agents on Hawai'i Island who provide a range of community education, outreach, and facilitation supports for community-based coastal initiatives, including Makai Watch (DLNR) and ReefWatchers programs. ■ The Olson Trust has its office headquarters in rural South Hilo and provides many jobs, is a major landowner, invests in a range of agricultural enterprises, leases farm land, and donates to a variety of community initiatives. ■ Pakalove/Basic Image, Inc. is a non-profit organization that maintains living classrooms at two of Hamakua's parks, Honoli'i and Hakalau Bay. As part of their malama 'aina initiative, they partner with schools and other groups to malama (to take care of) these adopted parks. 1 _7_q \A/Pnvinv rnmmilnity Networks Leadership within a community network often looks different than within conventional, hierarchical organizations. As noted in Appendix V4A, resilient community networks typically emerge through four stages: First, small, autonomous clusters emerge, often without any guidance, among individuals and organizations with shared interests, values, and goals. In Hamakua, many of these clusters already exist, both formally and informally. In the second and more intentional stage of network -weaving, translational leaders create a hub and spoke model, with themselves the initial hub, connecting many different kinds of constituencies. In Hamakua, such leaders actively make connections among environment, social, and other community -minded groups. In the third phase, translational leaders begin to extend connections among different constituencies for whom they are the sole bridge. This starts to create a multihub social network. Due to the number of relationships involved at this point, the best network weavers don't just connect — they teach those they connect with how to become connectors themselves and begin to assume a role as facilitator of network building. There are also Updated May 2018