Mahalo for your support!

Thanks to our community, we met our $ 20,000 goal in June, allowing us to complete the Saving Kona Stories project goals.

This, of course, will be an ongoing project, and we will continue to seek future grants.
Every donation towards Pūlama allows us to preserve our precious stories and places.

This funding supports;

  • Research historical places, events, and people along the Mamalahoa Kona Historic Corridor (MKHC).

  • Upgrading and expanding our digital collection repository

  • Record and compiling the oral history of Kona

  • Update and enhance our website and social media platforms

  • Redoing the twenty-four historic building signs along the Mamalahoa Kona Historic Corridor that have been degraded. They will be replaced by the more durable photo-engraved anodized aluminum signs with improved photos and histories.

  • Development of a virtual walking tour and driving tour along the MKHC

MAHALO TO OUR DONORS!

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Preservation Helper
$20 - $49

$20 Diane Vickers
$25 Nathan & Cheryl
$25 Kurashige
$25 Ashley Raymond
$25 Barbara Bosz
$25 Janette Chiron
$25 Susan Crisafi
$25 Svenja Muenter
$50 Clare Wilson

Preservation Supporters
$50 - $99

$50 Motter Snell
$50 Donn Hakoda
$50 Tomoe Nimori
$50 Sierra Scott-Anderson
$50 Valerie Corcoran
$50 Keiko Ono
$50 Michelle Romo
$75 Deborah Chang

Heritage Sustainers
$100 - $999

$100 Valerie Delahaye-Ippolito
$100 Rita Brogan
$200 Walter Dods
$200 Meredith Yasui
$200 Amber Aguirre
$425 Anonymous Donor
$500 Mike Peck
$200 Gerald & Renee Ben
$200 Tricia Buskirk
$500 Marena Smith
$200 Sachie Sato
$100 Kamuela Meheula
$750 Setsuko & Hiroki Morinoue
$500 Deidre Roney & John Cadarette
$100 Robert Forman
$100 Anonymous
$500 Paulette & Timothy Mulligan
$200 Sam & Monica Guckenheimer
$200 Miho Morinoue
$500 Donkey Mill Art Center
$500 Douglas Vaughan
$200 Tia and Otis Greer
$200 Janet & Melvin Kunitake
$200 Deborah Ozaki
$100 Bruce Corker
$100 Christine Kim
$500 Stephanie Moore
$300 Renee Kimura

Heritage Sponsors
$ 1,000-plus

$1,000 Tony & Noriko Donna
$2,000 Phil Hodson
$1,000 Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union
$2,500 Geoffrey Grauer & Maki Morinoue
$1,000 Honpa Hongwanji
$5,000 Mitchell Skiles & Deborah Haartz Family Foundation Grant

MAHALO TO BUSINESS SPONSORS!

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“Historic preservation clearly does much more than preserve bricks and mortar. It recognizes that our built history connects us in tangible ways with our past and provides context for the places we occupy and the world we live in. It fuses art with craftsmanship, capacity for modern utility with embodied energy, and progressive ideas for economic revitalization with traditional authenticity. Historic preservation is at the same time wonderfully egalitarian; all socioeconomic classes in every corner of the nation have successfully utilized it’s principles to protect their heritage and revitalize their communities.”

~ Craig Potts, Executive Director of the Kentucky Heritage Council and State Historic Preservation Officer