Our mission is to create and maintain a robust community-driven planning process for Kohala in support of projects addressing current Kohala community and Hawaiʻi Island goals. 

The Kohala Community Plan (KCP) is grounded in community generated ideas gathered in community “talk story” sessions and data gathered by working focus groups. Ongoing documentation of goals, actions, and progress is provided by the working focus groups and the stakeholders with which they collaborate.

The 10 Focus Groups are shown below.

Some of these groups were formed to implement the 2008 North Kohala Community Development Plan. All of them are available to provide guidance to County, State, Federal, and private decision makers. They report regularly to the NKCDP Advisory Group and to the community as a whole. Meetings are open to all interested parties.