With every year HER furthers in its collaborations with other like-minded organizations within local and global communities. Alliances include:
• Growing number of local, U.S. mainland and international schools and Community Groups – HER hosting volunteer opportunity
• University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH) – supporting vegetation classes, student graduate studies, special events
• Hawaii Community College (HCC) – Hosting service learning events and internships
• Plant Extinction Prevention Program (PEPP), the Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW), and the Volcano Rare Plant Facility (VRPF) – Monitoring and preserving the endangered ha’iwale (Cyrtandra nanawalensis).
• Natural Areas Reserves (NARS)/ DOFAW) – Fencing all natural clusters of the endangered ha’iwale.
• USDA Forest Service – ROD Studies
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry – Support bio-control against target invasive species
• Malama O Puna (MOP) – Seed collection, green house propagation and out-plantings
• Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) – Provide seedlings and out-planting support
• Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC) – Have provided volunteer opportunity and support
• Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) – Gathering professional support for the preservation of Wao Kele O Puna (WKOP).
• Global Giving Community– HER is permanent member, global exposure, fundraising support.
• GiveGab – local community fundraising platform
• Kīlauea Recovery Team/ Council District 4 – HER is Natural Environment RCA CO-Chair to bring community and County together
• Hawaiian Tourism Authority — Malama Hawaii Program directing tourists to our volunteer program
• Rustic Pathways – Summer volunteer events student-travel programs that empowers students through innovative and responsible travel experiences to positively impact lives and communities around the world.
• United Nations HER is included on the Restoration Road Trip environmental program representing restoration efforts worldwide.
• Lemu — Collaborating with an innovative platform for conservation that is developing an “Atlas of the Biosphere” to help revert the environmental crises by connecting organizations whose work targets forest & habitat conservation/restoration; new potential funding source.
• USGS Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center— Hawaiʻi Cooperative Studies Unit Developing a Restoration synthesis
• Pacific Islands – UH Hilo Climate Adaptation Science Center HER is a part of a project team to develop a climate-resilient restoration approach that combines functional, climate and geographic data