Round 1 Grant Recipients

The Island Innovation Fund is proud to announce its Round 1 Grant Recipients. Congratulations to these Innovators and their efforts to make Hawai'i, and the world, a better place.

Better corporate practices & nonprofit engagement through group buying

Our innovation will foster good social and environmental business practices and increase public engagement with Hawaii's nonprofits, at scale. We will leverage the Kanu network to participate in group discounts from companies screened for environmental and social practices. Each deal will be 'adopted' by a nonprofit, which will market itself and receive a percentage of pr...

Community Harvest Hawai‘i

Community Harvest Hawai'i takes an idea intrinsic in Hawaiian culture- that of preparing and sharing food together- and creates a process that makes use of food that is going to waste. This project brings people in a community together to: Harvest and collect food that would go to waste; Process and preserve the food (freeze, can, pickle, cook, smoke, ferment); Distribute...

Hawaii Conservation Technology Initiative

The Hawai'i conservation technology initiative aims to facilitate and hasten the application of new conservation tools and technologies, proven effective in at least one high-priority Hawaiian native forest, by groups working in other high-priority conservation areas where these new technologies are not yet in use. The implementation of these cutting-edge technologies wil...

Improving Population Management through Disease Focused Registries

Creatively addressing significant health issues in the State of Hawaii requires an understanding of the community served and specific quality indicators. With a growing number of community health centers utilizing health information technology, health care practice has highlighted the critical importance of tracking and efficiently producing quality disease focused patie...

Lei Fresh: Connecting Farmers to the Community

To increase consumption and production of local agriculture in Hawaii requires a thriving, interactive network connecting consumers, farmers and retailers. The concept of Lei Fresh is to leverage existing networks of farmers and retailers and connect them to the consumer via a mobile platform allowing inventory and product information to be shared in real-time and by loca...

Activity Feed

  • August 14 - Round 3 Awards

    Congratulations to the five grantees selected for the final round of the Island Innovation Fund. Tune in to Bytemarks Cafe Wednesday Aug 15 to meet some of the grantees.  Read more
  • July 23 - Final Presentations 8/3

    HCF invited 8 proposals to make final presentations on August 3. Read about the finalists here. Read more
  • April 10 - Concepts due 4/16

    A reminder to make sure your concepts is completed and submitted by 5:00 PM next Monday, April 16. Read more