Membership Criteria

Any local business owner who has genuine interest in progressing from wherever you are right now is eligible to join. A locally owned business is one where you have full autonomy and local decision-making authority with respect to your business practices.

Individuals working for positive change within large corporations may also wish to join and will be welcomed as individual members, but we won’t be promoting the business you work for. If you want to join as a business, our goal is to work with the decision-makers/owners who:

• Have the business registered in Hawaii, with no corporate or national headquarters outside the state
• Have greater than 50 percent local ownership and live here
• Have a privately held business (not publicly traded)
• Can choose to purchase locally or from businesses that share your values rather than from central distribution or only company-approved vendors
• Don’t have to seek policy changes at company headquarters before making decisions to the benefit of the community or environment
• Pay your own rent, marketing and other expenses (without assistance from a corporate headquarters)