The Kohala Center (TKC) is a non-profit, independent academic institution. The
mission of TKC is: to respectfully engage the Island of Hawai‘i as an extraordinary and
vibrant research and learning laboratory for humanity.6
The vision of TKC is to achieve: a
state of pono, in which individuals realize their potential, contributing their very best to
one another, to the community, and to the ‘Äina (the land) itself, in exchange for a
meaningful and happy life. 7