Causes: Amateur Sports, Sports

Mission: Hapa Mana is a 501(c)(3) Guidestar, Gold-level certified, nonprofit athletics and educational club that also acts as a community outreach program. We partner with like-minded community groups that focus on, but are not limited to, the homeless and low-income keiki (children) on the island of Oahu, have several civilian and veteran volunteers, and are all community-forward thinkers. Our mission is to bring society together through the bond sports participation can generate in order to bridge the divisions that the class divide can create. Hapa Mana offers access to free Sports & More camps, and free after school athletic and educational enrichment programs, all with the goal to make free, competitive, mixed-population teams across the island, state, country, and planet for kids, and living wage jobs for our instructors.

Results: We have partnered with Kunia Village Development Corporation. We throw monthly sports and more camps at their gymnasium. We also host weekly Taekwondo and basketball in Kunia. We have partnered with the Institute for Human Services. They bus 10-14 kids to our camps. We hold weekly tennis for them also. We have also partnered with several educational groups that come out to our camps to do STEAM and other projects with the kids.

Target demographics: children

Direct beneficiaries per year: 150 children, and partnered 8 companies or non profits

Geographic areas served: Honolulu, Hawaii

Programs: weekly after school tennis, basketball, Taekwondo, and some times soccer. We also provide monthly sport and educational camps where our kids rotate through athletic drills and STEAM projects or our tutors and mentors.