Delivering Measurable Results
KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS
Kamehameha Schools is a private charitable educational trust endowed by the will of Ke Ali'i Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The trust is Hawaiʻi’s largest private landowner with an endowment of $14.7 billion. Kamehameha Schools educates over 6,900 students at its Kindergarten through Grade 12 campuses and 30 preschool sites throughout Hawaiʻi. It serves an additional 50,000 Hawaiian learners through programs and community collaboration.
Māmaka values the partnership that we have formed with the trust in working towards improving the capability and well-being of Hawaiians.
DIVISION
Community Engagement & Resources
PROJECT
Regional Action Planning
TASKS
Strategic Planning
Māmaka provided strategic planning services and contributed to the development of regional action plans for KS’ ʻEwa, Kona Oʻahu, Waialua, and Koʻolau Oʻahu Regions. Each plan presents a strategic roadmap that is guided by KS’ Strategic Plan 2020 and Vision 2040, focuses on educational targets while aligning trust and community resources, identifies existing projects, new and innovative work, and outlines actions and tactics to better leverage resources and expand partnerships and initiatives. Māmaka planned and facilitated meetings that included consultation with KS trustees, directors, administrators, faculty, contractors, and other stakeholders. Projects identified in the regional action plans are being implemented.
DIVISION
Community Engagement & Resources
PROJECT
Honouliuli Educational Fair
TASKS
Strategic Planning
Māmaka planned and managed the 2019 and 2020 Honouliuli Educational Fairs. Kamehameha Schools teamed up with Island Pacific Academy, Kapolei Community Development Corporation, Hawaiʻi DOE and Charter schools, UH West O‘ahu, Leeward Community College, and other educational partners to sponsor these events to spotlight Pre-K through Post-High educational opportunities for Native Hawaiian families living within the ʻEwa region, supporting strategic industry pathways, college and career readiness, increased career training and workforce development opportunities for Native Hawaiians.
DIVISION
Information Technology
PROJECT
IT Asset Reconciliation
TASKS
Strategic Planning
Māmaka provided logistics services to KS’ IT Division by leading a physical inventory, certification and reconciliation effort of over 10,000 technological assets at 70 unique sites including three K through 12 campuses and 30 preschool sites throughout Hawaiʻi involving equipment swap, (de)tagging of assets, and clean-wiping data from over 5,000 pieces of lease-return equipment including desktops, laptops, and tablets.
HONOLULU AUTHORITY FOR RAPID TRANSPORTATION
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation is constructing a fully-automated driverless, urban light metro rail system. It will link key employment centers, visitors destinations, and residential communities along a 20-mile corridor on the south shore of the island of Oʻahu. Passenger service from Kualakaʻi Station (East Kapolei) to Hālawa Station (Aloha Stadium) is targeted for late 2023. The entire 20-mile system from Kapolei to Ala Moana is expected to be complete by the 2031.
Since 2010, Māmaka has worked on the Honolulu rail transit project offering a variety of services in various capacities, partnering with the City & County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services during the planning phase of the project and continuing on the project in working with the HART upon the agency's inception. Māmaka offers exceptional institutional knowledge and is proud to support mobility and transportation equity.
DIVISION
Public Involvement
PROJECT
Honolulu Rail Transit
TASKS
Public Information
Community Relations
Māmaka planned and managed dozens of stakeholder and community meetings, workshops, public hearings and other events including the project's 2011 ceremonial groundbreaking; supported public involvement and outreach efforts that included generating traffic, construction and informational communications, preparing public and legal notices, securing media buys, canvassing thousands of businesses and residents along the project's 20-mile corridor, and managing the production and distribution of over 100,000 direct-mail pieces. Māmaka managed customer service and the project’s 24-hour hotline including the development of policies, procedures, and manuals, incident reporting and dispatch, investigations, monitoring, and resolutions. Māmaka served as Administrator for archival and active integrated public information and comment management database systems linked to outreach and canvassing efforts, inquiries via info@honolulutransit.org, social media, project website, community meetings, and mail. Māmaka assisted with business and residential mitigation that included the development, implementation and management of HART’s Shop & Dine on the Line, and Shop, Dine & Shuttle programs. Māmaka also served on the development team for the project website, administering the website and social media.
DIVISION
Planning & Environmental
PROJECT
Honolulu Rail Transit
TASKS
Stakeholder Consultation
Document Control
Māmaka assisted with environmental compliance, NHPA Section 106 consultation, and with preparation of Draft, Final and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statements; coordinated with internal and external stakeholders including recognized descendants, Native Hawaiian and historic preservation organizations to ensure the protection of cultural and historic resources. Māmaka developed and managed the project’s Section 106 Programmatic Agreement Implementation Schedule, which monitors hundreds of project-wide environmental mitigation measures, deliverables, and environmental compliance. Māmaka assisted with the archaeological inventory survey fieldwork and in the preparation of AIS plans and reports including the development of a cultural monitoring program, burial protocol, and treatment plans, and communications including legal notices and weekly archaeological data recovery updates, and ʻiwi kūpuna discoveries notifications.
Māmaka independently managed the project’s Planning website and historic properties web application concurrently administering document control for the Planning & Environmental division – developing and implementing forms, plans, policies and procedures, and managing hardcopy and electronic deliverables and transmittals; coordinated internal and external surveillances and audits, identifying opportunities for improvement; compiled, indexed, and managed HART’s Administrative Record for State and Federal lawsuits comprising over 150,000 pages of documentation; reviewed Environmental Site Assessments and HazMat studies to support right-of-way and parcel acquisitions; assisted with permitting including preparation of Noise & Vibration Mitigation Plans for the WOFH, KHG, and Airport sections of the project, and for the Rail Operations Center; independently conducted the Before & After Parking Study for areas surrounding the West Loch, Leeward Community College, and Waipahu Transit Center rail stations; supported historic resources preservation efforts including the preparation of historic american buildings survey, historic american engineering record, historic american landscapes survey, and national register of historic preservation nominations.
HAWAIʻI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation manages all public airports, commercial harbors and Hawaiʻi's highway system.
Since 2014, Māmaka has offered a range of services on various HDOT projects - supporting mobility and transportation equity in Hawaiʻi.
DIVISION
Highways
PROJECT
Kalanianaʻole Highway Improvements
TASKS
Public Relations and Communications
Māmaka provides public relations and communications services for the Kalanianaʻole Highway Improvements project in Waimānalo where the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation continues improvements from Poalima Street to Makai Pier. Work began in January 2022 and continues through 2023. Work is being done in phases to alleviate traffic impacts and includes road resurfacing, pavement reconstruction, upgrading of existing guardrails, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, bus pullouts, walkway resurfacing, pavement marking and signage, drainage, and other improvements. Māmaka developed and maintains the project website, has disseminated public notices and provided community outreach including coordination with the neighborhood board and elected officials.
DIVISION
Highways
PROJECT
H1 Freeway PCP Rehabilitation
TASKS
Public Relations and Communications
HDOT rehabilitated the H-1 Freeway shoulder, eastbound and westbound lanes in ʻAiea and Pearl City using a precast concrete pavement method proven to efficiently and effectively repair highways. Over 1,200 PCP panels were installed on the H-1 Freeway between Waimalu and Hālawa; other improvements included widening of shoulder lanes, highway lighting replacements, drainage and safety upgrades. During the planning phase of the project, Māmaka provided public information and communications services that included data collection, video and photo documentation of the PCP method. Public awareness activities included traffic notices, outreach, and an internet-based survey of H-1 commuters. The ʻAiea and Waimalu projects are complete, and this precast method is now being used for rehabilitation projects on the H1, H2 and H3 Freeways on Oʻahu.
SERVING SMALL BUSINESSES AND LARGE CORPORATIONS
Māmaka is proud to serve local and international organizations, small businesses and large enterprises.
CLIENT
Patrick Ching
Naturally Hawaiian, LLC
PROJECT
Patrick Ching Art
TASKS
Marketing, Communications, and Public Relations
Māmaka assisted Hawaiʻi’s Nature Artist, Patrick Ching with marketing, public relations, and communications that included the redevelopment of the artist’s gallery and art instruction websites, and social media; managing internal and external communications including vendors and support consultants; supporting with business development and relationship cultivation; managed online sales, giclée and print productions, and coordinated sale of original paintings; secured wholesale distribution and consignment agreements for art products and books with art galleries, gift shops, and framers; provided supplies and material, and labor to produce, package, distribute, and ship art products.
Māmaka promoted monthly painting workshops and special events, developing print and digital marketing collateral, and managing event registrations; created and managed an inventory database of nearly 300 pieces of art, and a database of over 150 students; assisted with production editing for the artist’s television show, Painting In Paradise, and served as the POC with students and vendors including Spectrum OC16.