New Moon Foundation works in cooperation with The Kohala Center for Pacific Environments, located in Waimea, to conduct graduate level research and educational programs on NMF’s Sweet Water lands. Recent collaborations include the Yale School of Foresty graduate studies.
The Kohala Center is at the hub of an estimable network of private, public and independent sector institutions that serve the integration of living communities and cultures with the pursuit of academic excellence at all levels, from kindergarten to postgraduate study. The Kohala Center uses its unique island setting as a living laboratory and classroom to generate new knowledge about global ecological phenomena and provide systemic solutions to global environmental challenges, so that communities on the island and around the world can thrive, economically, socially and culturally. The Kohala Center’s Hawai`i State partners include Bishop Museum’s Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, the Edith Kanakaole Foundation, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, The Kamehameha Schools, The Makali’i Project, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai’i Authority, Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute, and many others. Their mainland educational partners include Cornell University, Brown University, Yale University, and others.