Delivering Measurable Results
Rail Transit
Department of Transportation Services + Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation is responsible for the design and construction of Honolulu's fully-automated rail system that will link key employment centers, visitors destinations, and residential communities along the south shore of the island of Oʻahu. The City & County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services operates Skyline, which began passenger service in June 2023.
Since 2009, Māmaka has worked on the Honolulu rail transit project offering a variety of services in various capacities, partnering with the City & County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services during the planning phase of the project, continuing on the project in working with the HART upon the agency's inception and through construction and operations. Māmaka offers exceptional institutional knowledge and is proud to support mobility and transportation equity.
Services
Hotline + Call Answering
Outreach + Canvassing
Rights + Stakeholder Identification + Consultation
Websites + Social Media
Meetings + Events
Transcribing + Translation
Public Involvement
Māmaka planned and managed dozens of stakeholder and community meetings, workshops, public hearings and other events including the project's 2011 ceremonial groundbreaking; supported public involvement and outreach efforts that included generating traffic, construction and informational communications, preparing public and legal notices, securing media buys, canvassing thousands of businesses and residents along the project's 20-mile corridor, and managing the production and distribution of over 100,000 direct-mail pieces. Māmaka managed customer service and the project’s 24-hour hotline including the development of policies, procedures, and manuals, incident reporting and dispatch, investigations, monitoring, and resolutions. Māmaka served as Administrator for archival and active integrated public information and comment management database systems linked to outreach and canvassing efforts, inquiries via info@honolulutransit.org, social media, project website, community meetings, and mail. Māmaka assisted with business and residential mitigation that included the development, implementation and management of HART’s Shop & Dine on the Line, and Shop, Dine & Shuttle programs. Māmaka also served on the development team for the project website, administering the website and social media.
Environmental Planning
Māmaka assisted with environmental compliance, NHPA Section 106 consultation, and with preparation of Draft, Final and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statements; coordinated with internal and external stakeholders including recognized descendants, Native Hawaiian and historic preservation organizations to ensure the protection of cultural and historic resources. Māmaka developed and managed the project’s Section 106 Programmatic Agreement Implementation Schedule, which monitors hundreds of project-wide environmental mitigation measures, deliverables, and environmental compliance. Māmaka assisted with the archaeological inventory survey fieldwork and in the preparation of AIS plans and reports including the development of a cultural monitoring program, burial protocol, and treatment plans, and communications including legal notices and weekly archaeological data recovery updates, and ʻiwi kūpuna discoveries notifications.
Māmaka independently managed the project’s Planning website and historic properties web application concurrently administering document control for the Planning & Environmental division – developing and implementing forms, plans, policies and procedures, and managing hardcopy and electronic deliverables and transmittals; coordinated internal and external surveillances and audits, identifying opportunities for improvement; compiled, indexed, and managed HART’s Administrative Record for State and Federal lawsuits comprising over 150,000 pages of documentation; reviewed Environmental Site Assessments and HazMat studies to support right-of-way and parcel acquisitions; assisted with permitting including preparation of Noise & Vibration Mitigation Plans for the WOFH, KHG, and Airport sections of the project, and for the Rail Operations Center; independently conducted the Before & After Parking Study for areas surrounding the West Loch, Leeward Community College, and Waipahu Transit Center rail stations; supported historic resources preservation efforts including the preparation of historic american buildings survey, historic american engineering record, historic american landscapes survey, and national register of historic preservation nominations.
Freeway + Highway Improvements
Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation
The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation manages all public airports, commercial harbors and Hawaiʻi's highway system. Since 2014, Māmaka has offered a range of services on various HDOT projects - supporting mobility and transportation equity in Hawaiʻi.
Kalanianaʻole Highway Improvements
Māmaka provided public relations and communications services for the Kalanianaʻole Highway Improvements project in Waimānalo. Work on Phase 1 from Olomana Golf Course to Poalima Street began in August 2016 and completed in June 2017. Phase 2 work from Poalima Street to Makai Pier began in January 2022 and was completed in March 2024. Work was done in phases to alleviate traffic impacts and included road widening and resurfacing, pavement reconstruction, upgrading of existing guardrails, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, bus pullouts, walkway resurfacing, pavement marking and signage, drainage, and other improvements.
Māmaka developed and maintained the project website, has disseminated public notices and provides public relations and community outreach including coordination with the neighborhood board and elected officials.
Services
Public Information + Communications
Stakeholder Consultation
Websites + Social Media
H1 Freeway PCP Rehabilitation
HDOT rehabilitated the H-1 Freeway shoulder, eastbound and westbound lanes in ʻAiea and Pearl City using a precast concrete pavement method proven to efficiently and effectively repair highways. Over 1,200 PCP panels were installed on the H-1 Freeway between Waimalu and Hālawa; other improvements included widening of shoulder lanes, highway lighting replacements, drainage and safety upgrades. During the planning phase of the project, Māmaka provided public information and communications services that included data collection, video and photo documentation of the PCP method. Public awareness activities included traffic notices, outreach, and an internet-based survey of H-1 commuters. The ʻAiea and Waimalu projects are complete, and this precast method is now being used for rehabilitation projects on the H1, H2 and H3 Freeways on Oʻahu.
Services
Public Information + Communications
Recordation + Documentation
Photography + Videography
Education
Kamehameha Schools
Kamehameha Schools is a private charitable educational trust endowed by the will of Ke Ali'i Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The trust is Hawaiʻi’s largest private landowner with an endowment of $14.7 billion. Kamehameha Schools educates over 6,900 students at its Kindergarten through Grade 12 campuses and 30 preschool sites throughout Hawaiʻi. It serves an additional 50,000 Hawaiian learners through programs and community collaboration.
Māmaka values the partnership that we have formed with the trust in working towards improving the capability and well-being of Hawaiians.
Services
Strategic Planning
Meetings + Events
IT Asset Management
Regional Action Planning
Māmaka provided strategic planning services and contributed to the development of regional action plans for KS’ ʻEwa, Kona Oʻahu, Waialua, and Koʻolau Oʻahu Regions. Each plan presents a strategic roadmap that is guided by KS’ Strategic Plan 2020 and Vision 2040, focuses on educational targets while aligning trust and community resources, identifies existing projects, new and innovative work, and outlines actions and tactics to better leverage resources and expand partnerships and initiatives. Māmaka planned and facilitated meetings that included consultation with KS trustees, directors, administrators, faculty, contractors, and other stakeholders. Projects identified in the regional action plans are being implemented.
Honouliuli Educational Fair
Māmaka planned and managed the 2019 and 2020 Honouliuli Educational Fairs. Kamehameha Schools teamed up with Island Pacific Academy, Kapolei Community Development Corporation, Hawaiʻi DOE and Charter schools, UH West O‘ahu, Leeward Community College, and other educational partners to sponsor these events to spotlight Pre-K through Post-High educational opportunities for Native Hawaiian families living within the ʻEwa region, supporting strategic industry pathways, college and career readiness, increased career training and workforce development opportunities for Native Hawaiians.
IT Asset Management
Māmaka provided logistics services to KS’ IT Division by leading a physical inventory, certification and reconciliation effort of over 10,000 technological assets at 70 unique sites including three K through 12 campuses and 30 preschool sites throughout Hawaiʻi involving equipment swap, (de)tagging of assets, and clean-wiping data from over 5,000 pieces of lease-return equipment including desktops, laptops, and tablets.
Small + Large, Local + Global B2B
Māmaka is proud to serve local and international organizations, small businesses and large enterprises.
Patrick Ching Art + Naturally Hawaiian
Māmaka assisted Hawaiʻi’s Nature Artist, Patrick Ching with marketing, public relations, and communications that included the redevelopment of the artist’s gallery and art instruction websites, and social media; managing internal and external communications including vendors and support consultants; supporting with business development and relationship cultivation; managed online sales, giclée and print productions, and coordinated sale of original paintings; secured wholesale distribution and consignment agreements for art products and books with art galleries, gift shops, and framers; provided supplies and material, and labor to produce, package, distribute, and ship art products.
Māmaka promoted monthly painting workshops and special events, developing print and digital marketing collateral, and managing event registrations; created and managed an inventory database of nearly 300 pieces of art, and a database of over 150 students; assisted with production editing for the artist’s television show, Painting In Paradise, and served as the POC with students and vendors including Spectrum OC16.
Services
Artist Management
Marketing + Branding
Public Relations + Communications
Websites + Social Media
Wholesale Printing + Distribution
サムライワークス
SamuraiWorks Hawaii + MAULU
Māmaka managed the new store opening for Tokyo-headquartered Samuraiworks’ first Hawaiʻi B&M in Waikīkī that included business registration, lease negotiations, demolition, design, new fixtures and equipment ordering, tracking, international shipping and customs, transportation and installation, signage, and merchandising, and grand opening event planning with Hawaiian blessing; including coordination with Kyo-Ya Hotels & Resorts and Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, and Department of Planning & Permitting. Māmaka also provided monthly marketing consulting services, website, digital and social media management including celebrity endorsements and promotions with CyberJapan Dancers Kanae & Kazue Watanabe.
Services
Marketing + Public Relations + Communications
Websites + Social Media
New Store Grand Opening
U.S.-Japan Council + Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage growing interdependence of the Asia-Pacific. APECs 21 nation members aim to create greater prosperity for people of the region by promoting balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative and secure growth and by accelerating regional economic integration. Māmaka supported the 2011 APEC International Trade Reception celebrating U.S.-Japan relations via media relations. The successful event was attended by dignitaries including the late-U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye, and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and Māmaka received written praise from the U.S.-Japan Council for providing “invaluable” services.
Service
Media Relations
Non-Profits
Māmaka recognizes the value that the services and programs of non-profits deliver to communities, and we are proud to support those in service of Hawaiʻi.
The Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association + Kuhikuhi
Māmaka provided public relations, communications, and marketing services to the Native Hawaiian Hospitality Associations (NaHHA) that included creating, managing, and disseminating a range of marketing materials and informational content, overseeing NaHHA communications with internal and external stakeholders, the public, and the media; collaborating with the Executive Director and Director of Programs to execute campaigns to promote NaHHA projects and programs. Māmaka launched the Kuhikuhi program to promote Native Hawaiian-owned businesses, which included logos, graphics, and promotional campaigns. Māmaka also managed the NaHHA and Kuhikuhi websites and social media.
Services
Marketing + Public Relations + Communications
Websites + Social Media
The Hawaiian Cultural Center of Hāmākua
Māmaka assisted with the development and implementation of operational (administrative, financial, and personnel) policies; project and program management; supported the Executive Director with strategic planning of programs, projects, systems, and policies, fundraising and donations including community grants, volunteer and donor relations. Māmaka managed all public and community relations, marketing, and communications including newsletters and eBlasts, social media and website management, digital media and graphics; program development and implementation for Huli Ka Lima I Lalo: community garden of Hawaiian crops; project management for Kū Ka ʻUlu, I Ola Hāloa, ʻUala a Kama, Maiʻa a Kanaloa, and Lāʻī a Ola: ʻulu orchards, kalo beds along with diversified composting and regenerative agriculture, sweet potato fields, banana groves, and a lush source of ti-leaf to feed the Hāmākua community for generations.
Services
Marketing + Public Relations + Communications
Websites + Social Media
Strategic Planning
Program Management
Kaupō Community Association
Kaupō Community Association's mission is to document, archive and publish the history and current events of Kaupō, a small rural community situated at the base of Haleakalā on the island of Maui - and its extended community of the east Maui mountains reaching from Kahikinui to Hāna. Led by KCA, the Kaupō School Community History Project was a part of a larger restoration and adaptive reuse effort for the site. Established in 1887, Kaupō School is inextricably tied to the ranching and agricultural culture of Kaupō, a Native Hawaiian place replete with the ruins of ancient heiau, the foundations of kauhale, as well as numerous legends, mele or songs, and stories. Recent history includes recollections of cattle ranches and cowboys, hog raisers, coffee planters, taro and potato farmers, and those who opposed the overthrow and annexation of Hawaiʻi.
Māmaka provided community relations, public information and education services to the project that included public posting of final work products comprising of oral history recordation with kūpuna born and/or raised in Kaupō and who attended Kaupō School; historic and archival photographic documentation, a historic context study, and an update to the existing National Register of Historic Places nomination. The community project began in September 2019 with construction and restoration of the Kaupō School historic site beginning in 2020. The former school house will now serve as a community resource center.
Services
Websites + Social Media
Transcribing
Recordation + Documentation
Archival + Ethnographic Research
Cultural + Historic Resources
Rooted in Hawaiian values with indigenous knowledge, and in-depth local expertise, we deliver services that responsibly advance Hawaiʻi: our people, our places, our rich and unique heritage. We specialize in cultural and historic resources management and consultation. We have researched and documented moʻolelo and the history of our islands, people, traditions, cultural practices and landscapes of Hawai‘i. As Kānaka ‘Ōiwi, we have the kuleana to protect, preserve, and perpetuate our stories and resources, and elevate community voices on projects that support individual and community independence, equity, and mobility.
Projects
Queen Kaʻahumanu Highway Widening Project
Queen Kaʻahumanu Kealakehe Highway Mitigation Project
LEDCOR South Maui Properties and Improvements Project
Waimea Valley Improvements Project
Kamehameha Highway Windward Coast Shoreline Mitigation Project
Waimānalo Beach Park Project
Kailua Boat Ramp Improvements Projects
Honolulu Rail Transit Project
Services
NEPA + Section 106 + Section 4(f)
NAGPRA + HRS 6e + HAR 13-300
Recordation + Documentation
Archival + Ethnographic Research
Transcribing + Translation