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■ The Kohala Center focuses on many of the high priority issues in Hamakua — coastal management, food <br />systems, renewable energy, and rural business development. The Kohala Center's Laulima Center for <br />Rural Cooperative Business Development actively supports coops and other businesses in the area. <br />■ The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands owns homesteads and agricultural land in Hamakua. <br />■ The Nature Conservancy owns significant conservation lands and provides support for community- <br />based resource management efforts. <br />■ The Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) in the State Department of Land and Natural Resources <br />(DLNR) has two full-time outreach coordinators on Hawai'i Island who work closely with community <br />groups interested in forest stewardship. DOFAW has also an Access and Acquisitions Program <br />Coordinator to work on access issues, including access for hunting. <br />■ Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Project (MKFRP) is a collaborative endeavor with the Pacific Cooperative <br />Studies Unit (PCSU) of UH-Manoa. <br />■ UH Sea Grant has extension agents on Hawai'i Island who provide a range of community education, <br />outreach, and facilitation supports for community-based coastal initiatives, including Makai Watch <br />(DLNR) and ReefWatchers programs. <br />■ The Olson Trust has its office headquarters in rural South Hilo and provides many jobs, is a major <br />landowner, invests in a range of agricultural enterprises, leases farm land, and donates to a variety of <br />community initiatives. <br />■ Pakalove/Basic Image, Inc. is a non-profit organization that maintains living classrooms at two of <br />Hamakua's parks, Honoli'i and Hakalau Bay. As part of their malama 'aina initiative, they partner with <br />schools and other groups to malama (to take care of) these adopted parks. <br />1 -7-q Weaving Community Networks <br />Leadership within a community network often looks different than within conventional, hierarchical <br />organizations. As noted in Appendix V4A, resilient community networks typically emerge through four stages: <br />First, small, autonomous clusters emerge, often without any guidance, among individuals and organizations with <br />shared interests, values, and goals. In Hamakua, many of these clusters already exist, both formally and <br />informally. <br />In the second and more intentional stage of network -weaving, translational leaders create a hub and spoke <br />model, with themselves the initial hub, connecting many different kinds of constituencies. In Hamakua, such <br />leaders actively make connections among environment, social, and other community -minded groups. <br />In the third phase, translational leaders begin to extend connections among different constituencies for whom <br />they are the sole bridge. This starts to create a multihub social network. Due to the number of relationships <br />involved at this point, the best network weavers don't just connect — they teach those they connect with how to <br />become connectors themselves and begin to assume a role as facilitator of network building. There are also <br />Community Action Guide: 2018 4 <br />