The Hawaiʻi State Green Fee (Act 96) represents a historic first-year allocation of dedicated funding for environmental stewardship, climate and hazard mitigation, and sustainable tourism across the state. This two-part workshop series, building upon a capacity-building workshop offered in November 2025, is designed to help community-based organizations (CBOs) — particularly executive directors, organizational leads, and grants staff — understand how to prepare for and successfully apply for government Requests for Proposals (RFPs) tied to these new Green Fee budget allocations.

Hosted by Hawaiʻi Green Growth and Hawai’i Public Policy Advocates, and convened in partnership with the Care for ʻAina Now Coalition and the Governorʻs Green Fee Advisory Council, this series combines a statewide virtual training on pre-RFP Readiness with county-level in-person RFP application workshops to ensure that organizations across every island have equitable access to both knowledge and peer support as these funding opportunities become available for the first time.

County Workshops (August 2026)

The first State Agency Request for Proposal (RFP) was released by DLNR in mid-July. At the request of many community organizations, HGG and partners are hosting the second workshop as part of this Community x Green Fee series throughout early August in person in each county. The intention is to support individual orgs prepare proposals and compliance procedures for competitive RFP bids. Presenters will include officials from the State Procurement Office; procurement, budget and policy experts; and many seasoned non-profit and community orgs who have successfully received funds from RFPs in the past that can share peer advice. These workshops, hosted in partnership with each of the Counties and County Sustainability (or equivalent) offices, are free and open to community and non-profit orgs.

These workshops build on the statewide virtual Green RFP compliance and procurement overview webinar hosted in June 2026 (see recording below!) that focused on procurement processes and compliance readiness. The workshops are intended to provide direct action-oriented support to community organizations stewarding environmental, climate hazard mitigation and sustainable tourism work across the state so that they may successfully and confidently apply to Green Fee RFPs via the Agency-issued Request for Proposal (RFP) process.

Registration is open! Please join us for the following in-person workshops by registering below:

Hawaiʻi Island — Hilo
Friday, August 7, 2026, 2:00–4:30 p.m.
Hawaiʻi Aging and Disability Resource Center, In partnership with the County of Hawaiʻi Office of Sustainability, Climate, Equity and Resilience

REGISTER VIA: – bit.ly/hicogreenfee 

Oʻahu — Honolulu
Tuesday, August 11, 3:00 – 5:30pm
Hoʻokupu Center, in partnership with the City and County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency

REGISTER VIA: bit.ly/oahugreenfee 

Kauaʻi — Hanalei
Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Hanalei Initiative Offices

REGISTER VIA: bit.ly/KauaiRFP 


Maui — Wailuku

Thursday, August 13, 2026, 1:00–5:00 p.m.
J. Walter Cameron Center

REGISTER VIA: bit.ly/MauiRFP

*Note that while there are no virtual options and the presentations will not be recorded, materials from the workshops will be made available after the event.

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