YARN FAW SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

Based in Hawai‘i, Yarn Faw was founded with a promise: do not take money from the islands. Our client work is funded entirely from off-island projects, allowing us to give back to the place we call home with integrity and purpose. Each year, we offer up to $100,000 in in-kind storytelling services—including production (shooting, producing, and writing) and post-production (editing)—to qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. To be eligible in Hawai‘i, your story must be Hawai‘i-centered, rooted in the people, place, and cultural life-ways of these islands.

This could include—but is not limited to—work focused on:

  • Cultural traditions and language
  • Stewardship of land and sea
  • Food systems and sustainability
  • Native and endemic species
  • The arts and community resilience

We also welcome stories that may not fit neatly into a category, but which honor and uplift Hawai‘i’s cultural fabric, challenge erasure, or preserve what commercialism too often overlooks.
If your mission is guided by mālama (care), authenticity, and community, we’re here to help tell your story.

Beyond Hawai‘i, we also partner with nonprofits around the world—but with the same core requirement: your work must center culture, authenticity, and community. We are not a fit for organizations driven solely by promotion or profit. We’re here to amplify voices that protect what’s sacred—not sell it.

Some stories aren’t just worth telling. They’re worth protecting.









 

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