Program areas at TIRCD
Environment and watershed protection and restorationtri-isle assists projects that managed watersheds throughout maui county. These watersheds, which are in the uplands, are important to the environmental health of the lands below them. It is crucial that these projects work continue in order to protect all lands and ecosystems of our ahupua'a, the traditional mountain-to-the-sea land divisions on each island. All of maui county's watersheds are recipients of these projects. It is important to realize that these watershed projects enjoy public funding support from all governments; federal, state and county and, increasingly, from private foundations as well. It is also important that we become facilitative and collaborative in an inter-active and inter-connected system of watershed protection, restoration and management at all levels of government and with private sector partners.
Native forests, ecosystems, and habitat protection and restorationthe indigenous ecosystems of the islands of maui county continue to be compromised and are in demise, decreasing in size and less able to positively contribute to the environments and climates so important to island life. These projects need to continue as our native flora and fauna contribute to how our environments and ecosystems are major contributors to the nurturing of our climate and weather. These projects also need resources to continue to educate the general public, and visitors to these islands about the importance of Conservation, environmental protection and natural Resource Development. Our membership in the maui Conservation alliance (mca) helps us to understand and seek new funding streams, as well as to work with new and emerging environmental and Resource Conservation projects.
Social, community, cultural, civic and economic developmentmaui county is a culturally, socially and ethnically diverse jurisdiction. Our mission was expanded, through a strategic planning process in 2012, and revised in 2015, to include projects that build, nurture and improve quality of life for the people living in our communities. These projects contribute to social, cultural, environmental and health factors important to civic and community life on all the islands of maui county. These projects become more important as the population of maui county continues to grow both in numbers and diversity. We work with emerging community organizations that have innovative projects, including events, which need a combination of public and private funding, as well as philanthropic and charitable contributions from the general public, in order to fulfill their goals and objectives.