About Ma Hope Institute
The seeds for future harvests lie in the fruit from seasons past.
Home \ mӓ 'hō-pĕ \ n [Hawaiian] after, behind		Ma Hope Institute is a place-based and community-engaged research institute working to foster and ensure healthy futures for children, youth, and communities by honoring, perpetuating, and extending placed-based knowledge and biocultural diversity through education, research, youth development, and social action. .
Collecting Seeds			Planting Seeds	Setting Seeds
learning from the past			acting in the present	building for the future
Honoring place-based knowledge and multiple ways of knowing through research and education.			Perpetuating educational and social practice that builds equity, educational opportunity, and community.	Advocating praxis and policies that advance equity, justice, biocultural diversity, and community wellbeing.