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Molokai
Heritage
Trust

What is the Molokai Heritage Trust?
A community-based non-profit Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) formed to acquire and provide oversight for management of Molokai Ranch lands.

  • Year 1
    Description
  • Year 2
    Description

Why acquire Molokai Ranch?
Molokai Ranch’s foreign landowners have been grossly negligent in caring for uplands, which has led to ecological degradation which now threatens the health of the community.

“When the community buys back Molokai Ranch, it will have restored ea (sovereignty) to its people.”

~ Malia Akutagawa, JD, ESQ.

Associate Professor of Law & Hawaiian Studies
Hui ʻĀina Momona

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Hawai'inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge - Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
William S. Richardson School of Law - Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law

Community-Based Ownership Models. 
Forming an SPV is among the first steps towards community ownership of Molokai Ranch. 

View our community meeting flow below

Meeting Flow

Community Meetings

Community-wide distilled updates on working group progress, opportunity for broad community input.

Working Group Meetings

Synthesize progress made by subcommittees into material that is easily understandable and empowers our community with the information to make informed choices.

Subcommittee Meetings

Dedicated to doing technical research on financing models, community ownership models, and revenue generation and distilling findings for
working groups.

Community Ownership Models

Funding
Options

20

Average total number of participants in meetings

80%

Of meeting participants “agreed” or “strongly agreed” to the establishment of a community-based non-profit to buy and manage Molokai Ranch lands.

13

Total number of meetings as of 2022

Past Meetings.

February 22, 2022

First Open Community Ownership of Molokaʻi Ranch Meeting 

View Zoom recording here >> 

March 22, 2022

Working Group Meeting

March 29, 2022

Open Community Ownership of Molokaʻi Ranch Meeting #2

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April 20, 2022

Subcommittee Meeting (Funding Options)

April 27, 2022

Subcommittee Meeting (Community Ownership Models)

May 4, 2022

Working Group Meeting

May 11, 2022

Open Community Ownership of Molokaʻi Ranch Meeting #3

June 2, 2022

Subcommittee Meeting (Funding Options)

June 9, 2022

Subcommittee Meeting (Community Ownership Models)

June 30, 2022

Open Community Ownership of Molokaʻi Ranch Meeting #4

View Zoom recording here >> 

July 14, 2022

Subcommittee Meeting (Community Ownership Models)

  • Implementation and developing the bylaws for the SPV

July 21, 2022

Open Community Ownership of Molokaʻi Ranch Meeting #5

Zoom Recording coming soon

July 28, 2022

Subcommittee Meeting (Funding Options)

  • Discuss acquisition of Molokaʻi Ranch and developing materials for potential funders

Upcoming Meetings.
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The Solution.
Community Ownership of Molokai Ranch 
through a community-led initiative facilitated by Sustʻāinable Molokai.

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