Discover volunteer opportunities below for community organizations across the pae ʻāina.

Join Understory Alliances' Volunteer Workday the fourth Sunday of the month and help care for Mala Laʻau, a biocultural forest garden, by weeding, feeding, and watering the plants and monitoring their growth. You will contribute to caring for this essential community resource while learning about their Mala Laʻau method and its role in increasing food security and supporting local ecosystems. 

Join weekly volunteer days at NTBG’s Limahuli Garden! Limahuli Garden and Preserve is a puʻuhonua, a place of refuge, where Indigenous traditions and flourishing relationships continue today. Volunteers help to take care of the valley and living collections through weeding, planting, and mulching. If you are interested in joining NTBG on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays, RSVP below.

Waikalua Loko I'a, an ancient fishpond nestled in Kāneʻohe, O‘ahu, sprawls across 17 acres of Private Property under the ownership of the Pacific American Foundation. The foundation works to revive and protect Loko I'a with a focus on cultural preservation, integrating place-based, culturally-centered learning that meets educational standards and honors local heritage. Collaborating closely with the community, they ensure the perpetuation of cultural practices and traditions. Volunteers can join events five times a year, based on low tides.

Kauluakalana’s mission is to restore and grow healthy relationships between people and place through the aloha ʻāina practices of retelling their Kailua-specific stories, replanting and eating ancestral foods, and caring for the sacred sites, lands, and waters of the beloved ahupuaʻa of Kailua, O‘ahu. All ages, from keiki to kūpuna, are warmly welcomed to join them to huli ka lima i lalo. For the location, volunteer dates, times and more information about the volunteer experience, please visit the link below.

Join Mālama Maunalua for a volunteer workday in Maunalua Bay! You will help restore the marine environment by removing invasive algae from the nearshore waters, as part of an effort to continue the work of the Great Huki. Today, this effort continues through volunteer workdays with schools, community groups, and individuals. Check out their volunteer calendar through the link below.

Protect & Preserve Hawaiʻi focuses on giving back to the ʻāina (land) through mauka to makai conservation efforts and aims to protect Hawaiʻi’s native ecosystems and cultural heritage. Their monthly volunteer days serve as an introduction to native ecosystems, invasive plant ID and removal, and native out planting.  Check out what they are up to, meet members of our local conservation community, and help restore the biodiversity and resilience of the ahupuaʻa every fourth Saturday of the month.

Come and volunteer with Hoʻāla ʻĀina Kūpono and ʻohana Fukumitsu, at Hakipuʻu Loʻi Kalo a Kaialau. Turn your hands to this ʻāina momona (abundant land) as you alu like (work in unity) to cultivate kalo (taro), care for our waterways, and share aloha for community. Volunteers are welcome on the third Saturday of the month.

Kuli'ou'ou valley is a beautiful watershed that once boasted of native trees, shrubs, plants, birds and snails. The switchbacks have been deeply cut, killing trees & plants and causing erosion that eventually kills coral and damages Maunalua Bay due to overuse & misuse. At ATA’s volunteer events, they focus on being in community while watering plants, working on trail maintenance, and removing invasive species. Community members can join weekly watering days every Friday (except the third Friday of the month) or every third Saturday for tree planting and trail maintenance.

Hāna moku, Maui is considered one of Hawai'i's wahi pana due to the richness and significance of local myths. Ke Ao Hāli'i is dedicated to ensuring the thriving existence of this land, maintaining its openness and lushness, protecting its shoreline and reef, and preserving the traditional practices and subsistence lifestyle of families with deep ancestral ties along the Hāna coast. Volunteers are welcome to join Ke Ao Hali'i’s community workdays, held monthly on the second Saturday.

Kipuka Olawalu works to restore the land through projects such as lo’i restoration, native plantings, invasive species removal, and re-establishing proper cultural protocols for all who enter. Kipuka Olowalu believes in a holistic ahupua’a approach to managing the ecosystem that extends from the mountains to the sea, using traditional approaches. Volunteers can join on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Keālia Pond is a hidden wetland treasure transitioning the urban development and agriculture fields. Here, endangered Hawaiian waterbirds are protected and go about their daily activities and are joined by migratory birds in winter. Quiet solitude for those that wander and explore the wetlands.  Volunteers will help remove invasive species, plant and care for over 40 species of native Hawaiian plants, and more in Maui’s tropical dryland forest ecosystem. Join the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service every Thursday and Friday.

Join for NTBG once a month for a morning of hala tree care and plant identification at Kahuna Garden in Hana, Maui near Kalāhū point. You will be removing ink berry and other competing plants to open up space for hala. Come learn more about the the Hala Preserve project at Kahanu Garden, as you tend to one of the largest intact Panandus tectorius forests remaining in Hawaii.