WAIANAE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

E mau ke a'o is a hawaiian culture-based entrepreneurship workshop series for cultural practitioners. The program provides them with the technical assistance needed to create online learning content. This results in building practitioner capacity to create a self-sustaining business through their cultural practice while also increasing public access to cultural knowledge through online platforms. At the completion of the program, participants will: set up a legal entity, prepare cultural content for an in-person and online audience, build content for online modules, perpetuate their knowledge for future generations, and build new revenue streams through their practice. Accomplishments: convened 1 cohort, with 27 participants total.