Congratulations to Namahana School for being awarded $1.01MM over three years from the federal Charter School Programs (CSP) grant program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). This federal grant will support Namahana School's operating expenses. This is a tremendous accomplishment and further supports Namahana’s curriculum and policy development, staffing hiring and training, and community engagement activities.

Melanie Parker, the executive director for the Namahana Education Foundation, was thrilled to receive a match gift of $500,000 in unrestricted funds from Kilauea residents Mike Kaplan and Rose Contreras.

Over the course of two months, Namahana School raised $1.4 million in community donations to secure an 11.3 acre parcel in Kīlauea Town for its future campus. The fundraising campaign, launched in early May, was an ambitious bet for the public charter school, which plans to welcome its first cohort of students in fall 2025.

In April 2023, Namamaha Education Foundation was presented with the opportunity to purchase an 11.3 acre property in Kilauea Town for the future campus of Namahana School. $1.1 million of the total $2.1 million sale price needed to be raised in cash by June 9 in order to secure to property.

Namahana Education Foundation seeks an ambitious and imaginative advancement professional who has found success working with committed volunteers and campaign counsel to design and implement a comprehensive multi-million dollar campaign.

Namahana Education Foundation is seeking a Kauaʻi-based administrative professional to join its small, start-up team.

A fundraising effort to secure a permanent campus for Namahana School received a substantial financial boost when anonymous donors committed $420,000 to the endeavor.

An anonymous donor has made a pivotal matching gift to Namahana School to help it obtain a permanent campus in Kīlauea Town.

Namahana School has targeted the fall of 2025 for when the first cohort of students will be arriving at the new charter school in Kilauea.

The planned middle and high school for students on the North Shore is fundraising to buy an 11-acre campus.

In an extraordinary turn of events, Namahana School has been given the opportunity to purchase a parcel of centrally located land in Kīlauea Town.

Donation Will Propel the Effort to Build New Public Charter School on Kaua‘i’s North Shore.

Meet the Namahana School and Namahana Education Foundation teams.

Namahana is one of two schools approved by the state Public Charter School Commission this year to begin operations.

Namahana School Receives Conditional Approval from Hawai‘i State Public School Charter Commission

In 2021, Representative Nadina Nakamura met with member of the Namahana team at its future school site in Kalihiwai/Kīlauea.