Purple Maiʻa Foundation

Purple Maiʻa Foundation We're transforming technology by teaching it to our kids.

We are on a mission to educate and empower the next generation of culturally grounded, community serving technology makers and problem solvers.

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⚡️ Nā lālā Purple = Kaikaina Youth Programs, Mālama Studios, Hiapo Workforce Development, Hawaiʻi FoundHer, Food+ Policy, Hālau Hekili Middle College, and more!

Many years ago, we planted a seed.Tonight, we celebrate how far it’s grown. Swipe to learn about the Laʻa Carvalho Schol...
05/27/2026

Many years ago, we planted a seed.

Tonight, we celebrate how far it’s grown. Swipe to learn about the Laʻa Carvalho Scholarship and the haumāna we are honoring.

Sponsorship isn’t just a transaction, it’s a seed. 🌱We’re deeply grateful to the partners who are helping us plant a leg...
05/27/2026

Sponsorship isn’t just a transaction, it’s a seed. 🌱

We’re deeply grateful to the partners who are helping us plant a legacy for the next generation. Swipe to see learn who’s being supported and where your efforts directly impact.

An evening you won’t want to miss 🥗 🎨 🎷Here’s what’s in store for Planting A Legacy, May 27th at . Swipe to meet the nig...
05/24/2026

An evening you won’t want to miss 🥗 🎨 🎷

Here’s what’s in store for Planting A Legacy, May 27th at . Swipe to meet the night.



Something is growing 🌱Join us next Wednesday, May 27th as we gather to celebrate our haumāna, honor a legacy, and plant ...
05/22/2026

Something is growing 🌱

Join us next Wednesday, May 27th as we gather to celebrate our haumāna, honor a legacy, and plant something lasting together.

05/09/2026

Haku Waiwai. 🌿

Day 3 wasn’t a closing. It was a commitment.

We gathered as a working assembly, not to dream about Hawaiʻi 2036 but to build toward it: aligning cooperative institutions, mapping community enterprises, and weaving the long-term infrastructure of a sovereign, self-determined Hawaiʻi.

And we closed the way we should: with a kīpāepae. A shared lei. A collective promise to carry what we built here forward, together, long after the gathering ends.

This is what abundance looks like when it’s rooted in ʻāina, culture, and each other.

Mahalo to every person who showed up, contributed, and stayed til the end. Eahou isn’t over. It’s just beginning.

Mōiliili SelfDetermined

05/07/2026

Day Two. Kānāwai. 💧

The living law of collective stewardship.

Kānāwai is not a rule imposed from above. It is the understanding our kūpuna carried. That wai, like capacity, like knowledge, belongs to the community. You manage it together. You build it together. And this day, we did.

In the Labs, hands found soil. Seeds were propagated. Sensors were calibrated. Reels were cut. Policy was mapped from the ground up. Hula was practiced not as performance but as knowing. Every skill grown here flows into the collective.

In the Sessions, the room held Oaxaca and Waiʻanae, Jamaica and Maui, Chicago and Pueblo Territory. Cooperative economics, regenerative finance, food sovereignty, governance rooted in collective power. Thirty practitioners. One campus. Water moving where it needs to go.

And as the sun set, Mōʻiliʻili filled up. The Nite Mākeke opened its doors at the Church of the Crossroads, local vendors and makers carrying pua, ea, and ʻŌiwi design into the night. A reclamation of May Day and everything it means to bloom here.

To every facilitator, every lab participant, every vendor, every maker who showed up and shared their mana, mahalo.

Day Two practiced the law. Day Three weaves the abundance.

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KīhoʻihoʻiKānāwai

Day 1 has been incredible so far 🔥Mahalo mahalo mahalo for bringing the Wai and making this the event of the year for us...
05/02/2026

Day 1 has been incredible so far 🔥

Mahalo mahalo mahalo for bringing the Wai and making this the event of the year for us .

Stay tuned for tomorrow and film fest tonight!

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WE ARE SOLD OUT. 🧡🔥Mō’ili’ili is calling… and this weekend, we answer together.Save this post and swipe through for your...
04/30/2026

WE ARE SOLD OUT. 🧡🔥

Mō’ili’ili is calling… and this weekend, we answer together.
Save this post and swipe through for your full Eahou Fest guide: campus map, parking, schedule, workshop registration, and night activations open to the public. 🎞️🛍️

📍 Malaplex Campus across Mō’ili’ili
🗓️ May 1–3, programming starts 8:30am daily
🌐 Full schedule at eahoufest.com

Night activations are FREE and open to all. Short Film Festival on Friday and Nite Mākeke on Saturday. Bring your people.

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