Nalukai Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded and operated on Hawaiʻi Island focused on supporting youth innovation and professional development through intensive training in social, cultural, and commercial entrepreneurship.

It is our mission to equip the next generation of Hawaiʻi change-makers with the technical and leadership skills necessary to produce innovative solutions to the many challenges now facing our communities. 

Since 2016 we have hosted 10 iterations of our Congressionally-recognized* Nalukai Academy program, training 226 Hawaiʻi high school students from 48 schools across 6 islands in the application of cutting-edge business methodologies to social, cultural, and commercial ventures of their own invention.

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