Community Resources & Connections
Partners & Supporters
Community resilience is collaborative by nature. It grows through trusted relationships, shared spaces, local knowledge, and people willing to work alongside one another.
RRRN connects residents, neighborhood leaders, gathering places, nonprofits, cultural practitioners, educators, public agencies, funders, volunteers, and community organizations across Puna Makai.
Relationships that help the network work
RRRN’s work moves through trusted organizations and the community relationships that connect people, places, knowledge, and support.
Partner organizations
Resilience network partner
Vibrant Hawaiʻi
Connects RRRN to islandwide resilience hubs, training, resources, volunteers, and assistance pathways.
Fiscal sponsor & corridor partner
Pōhaku Pelemaka
Provides fiscal sponsorship and partners with RRRN on the Red Road Corridor Management Plan.
Community recovery grant funder
County of Hawaiʻi Kīlauea Disaster Recovery Grant Program
Community sponsorship is provided through the Red Road Resilience Network’s Red Road Resilience Outreach Project: Connecting Community & Building Capacity and Red Road All-Communities Disaster Initiative: Four Drivers for Survival and Recovery, funded by the County of Hawaiʻi Kīlauea Disaster Recovery Grant Program.
Community Partners & Collaborators
Community resilience is collaborative by nature. RRRN works alongside organizations, gathering places, schools, markets, community groups, and resilience hubs whose spaces, relationships, knowledge, and resources help strengthen Puna Makai.
These collaborations take many forms—from emergency preparedness and community outreach to education, food resilience, arts, gathering, and the sharing of community spaces.
Resilience hub & community learning place
Hawaiʻi’s Volcano Circus / SPACE
Hawaiʻi’s Volcano Circus operates the Seaview Performing Arts Center for Education (SPACE), a community education and gathering place that is also home to Seaview Community School, a Hawaiʻi Academy of Arts and Science public charter school program.
The SPACE Resilience Hub works with RRRN through the Red Road Emergency Command Group to support coordinated emergency response. When activated as a response hub, its off-grid facilities and resilience volunteers may help meet community needs through services such as water access, charging, ice, food distribution, and recovery support.
At other times, SPACE hosts school activities, community classes, performances, gatherings, and some of RRRN’s art exhibitions and events.
Uncle Robert’s ʻAwa Club
Uncle Robert’s ʻAwa Club is a longstanding Kalapana gathering place and an important point of community connection along the Red Road. Its work is grounded in aloha, ʻohana, ʻāina, culture, and community self-sustainability.
Uncle Robert’s hosts a Wednesday Night Market from 5 p.m. until pau, the Kaimū Farmers Market on Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to noon, and frequent live music and community events.
RRRN works with Uncle Robert’s to support outreach and the distribution of food, supplies, and other resources to residents throughout the Red Road corridor during times of disruption.
You can often find members of the RRRN resilience team at a Saturday Market outreach table or participating in second-Thursday bingo. Uncle Robert’s also hosts periodic Feeding Community, Gleaning Hope community imu meals—free gatherings that support nourishment, connection, and the sharing of locally grown and gleaned food.
Star of the Sea Painted Church
Built in 1927, the Star of the Sea Painted Church is a treasured part of the Kalapana community. In 1990, the church was moved to its present location ahead of an advancing lava flow, preserving an important place of worship and local history.
Mass continues to be celebrated on the first Friday of each month, and visitors are welcome to appreciate the church and its historical heritage. The church also supports the network by making space available for lectures, learning opportunities, and community gatherings.
Kalani
Kalani offers arts, movement, wellness, and educational spaces and classes in Puna Makai. Its programs and gathering spaces contribute to the creative and educational opportunities available to residents and visitors throughout the region.
Center for Getting Things Started
The Center for Getting Things Started supports organizations and community initiatives through sustainability consultation, educational design, business incubation, networking, appropriate technologies, event coordination, communications, funding support, and data collection.
RRRN partners with the Center for Getting Things Started on Feeding Community, Gleaning Hope, an initiative that brings locally grown and gleaned food into free community meals while strengthening relationships among growers, gleaners, cooks, volunteers, and neighbors.
Kanaka Haʻaheo & the Pāhoa Resilience Hub
Kanaka Haʻaheo is a community service and outreach organization based in Puna.
RRRN collaborates with Kanaka Haʻaheo and the Pāhoa Resilience Hub to broaden community preparedness, response capacity, and connection across the greater Puna region.
Together, our hubs are part of a growing network of community-based organizations and gathering places working to share knowledge, coordinate resources, and strengthen support before, during, and after emergencies.
Vibrant Hawaiʻi and the Hawaiʻi Island Resilience Hub Network
RRRN participates in the Vibrant Hawaiʻi Resilience Hub Network, connecting Red Road communities with a larger cohort of resilience hubs across Hawaiʻi Island.
The network creates opportunities for hubs to share resources, training, information, and practical experience while strengthening coordinated island-wide preparedness, response, and recovery capacity.
Other Organizations and Community Gathering Places
RRRN also values its connections with Mālama O Puna and with other neighborhood groups, food producers, educators, artists, cultural practitioners, service organizations, markets, and community gathering places serving Puna Makai.
These relationships continue to grow as RRRN’s work develops.
Strong networks are built through many kinds of collaboration. We are grateful to the people and organizations who share their knowledge, spaces, resources, and time in support of our community.
How the network connects
Kūpuna, uncles & local knowledge holders
Longtime residents, cultural practitioners, growers, artists, and tradespeople carry relationships and understanding that cannot be replaced by a directory.
Shared spaces & gathering places
Shelters, farms, studios, schools, churches, markets, and cultural places give neighbors room to gather, learn, and coordinate support.
Neighborhood & hub relationships
Neighborhood Connectors, volunteers, and hubs help local needs and resources move through the broader network before, during, and after emergencies.
Public agencies, supporters & funders
Public agencies, philanthropic partners, and community supporters make preparedness, outreach, education, stewardship, and local capacity-building possible.
Community allies & gathering places
Local places and relationships that keep people connected
This growing network includes formal partners, informal allies, trusted gathering places, and neighborhood connectors across Puna Makai.
Uncle Robert’s ʻAwa Club & Kaimū markets
A trusted place for community meals, markets, outreach, distribution, music, and connection in Kaimū/Kalapana.
Pāhoa Resilience Hub & Nānāwale
Neighborhood and hub relationships that connect Lower Puna residents with information, readiness efforts, and community support.
C4GTS
Community collaboration through gatherings such as Feeding Community, Gleaning Hope, where locally grown and donated food supports shared meals and resilience conversations.
Churches, learning places & creative spaces
Star of the Sea Painted Church, ʻOpihikao Congregational Church, Kalani Honua, and other spaces provide room for lectures, classes, markets, culture, and community gathering.
Kapoho & coastal neighborhood connectors
Neighbors carry local knowledge, check on one another, share resources, and keep the network grounded in each place.
ASC
A local community connection supporting relationships, shared activities, and access to resources in Puna Makai.
HAAS
Hawaiʻi Academy of Arts & Science connects students, families, educators, and community learning in Puna.
Mālama O Puna
Supports environmental stewardship, community education, and care for the natural and cultural resources of Puna.
Connections still growing
RRRN continues building relationships with Four Corners, local farms and markets, and people throughout the Red Road corridor.
Supported through community partnership
This community resilience work is supported by Vibrant Hawaiʻi and through RRRN’s Red Road Resilience Outreach Project: Connecting Community & Building Capacity and Red Road All-Communities Disaster Initiative, fiscally sponsored by Pōhaku Pelemaka and funded through the County of Hawaiʻi Kīlauea Disaster Recovery Grant Program.