Community benefits

• Fostering ecologically and economically viable coffee cultivation
  
• Facilitating the cultural and economic uses of other trees grown together with coffee
  
• Strengthening sustainable development and economic diversification
  
• Enhancing watershed function and wildlife habitat
  
• Empowering coffee growers to successfully diversify their coffee plantings
  

Benefits of co-sponsoring

The educational publications will generate more community goodwill for sponsors and expand the sponsors' ongoing educational activities. Sponsorship benefits include (minimum $10,000 contribution):

• High-visibility acknowledgment on all educational materials produced
  
• Wide exposure in print, CD, e-mail and internet
  
• Demonstration of sponsoring organizations’ ongoing commitment to culturally and environmentally sensitive development
  
• Permission to post educational materials produced on sponsor’s web site
  

Note: Smaller contributions (less than $10,000) are also welcome. If a smaller contribution is made, proportional benefits will apply.

Please contact the project coordinator for more information:

Craig Elevitch
Director
Permanent Agriculture Resources
P.O. Box 428
Holualoa, HI 96725 USA
Tel: 808-324-4427; Fax: 808-324-4129
Email: craig@agroforestry.net

This project presents sponsors with a unique opportunity to support ecologically viable coffee production in Hawaii.

There are many questions that farmers, ranchers, landscapers, and landholders must have answered in order to be willing to grow coffee in biodiverse environments. This project is unprecedented in the practical, user-friendly, and readily accessible information they provide to answer this need.

Sponsorship

This project has current sponsorship by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Conservation Innovation Grant program and the County of Hawai‘i Department of Research and Development in partnership with the Big Island Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council, with matching contributions from the project collaborators’ organizations. The Big Island RC&D Council is a 501c3 non-profit corporation registered in the State of Hawai‘i. The RC&D Program is a public-private partnership administered by NRCS that assists individuals and organizations with grant acquisition and fiscal management for beneficial community projects. Opportunities for co-sponsors are still available.

						County of Hawaii Dept. of Research and Development
			Opportunities for co-sponsors are still available