Organizational status.
Our Maui is an educational project of Keep Maui Nui Home, Inc. Keep Maui Nui Home is a Delaware nonprofit corporation organized under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code as a social welfare organization.
Our exempt purpose is the civic and social betterment of Maui residents through education, lobbying, and issue advocacy. We do not endorse or oppose candidates for public office. We do not direct charitable funds through this organization; readers interested in tax-deductible charitable giving should consult their tax advisor or consider donations to separately-organized 501(c)(3) entities working on related issues.
Lobbying and issue advocacy.
As a 501(c)(4), we may engage in lobbying as our primary activity. We may take positions on legislation. We may advocate for and against specific policies and bills. We register our lobbying activity with the State of Hawaiʻi where required under Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes chapter 97.
We track our positions on active legislation in a public log. When we testify before the County Council, the State Legislature, or any state board, we publish the testimony on this site.
Donor disclosures.
Donations to Keep Maui Nui Home, Inc. are not tax deductible as charitable contributions. We accept individual donations, corporate donations, and program support from partner organizations. We do not publicly disclose donor information except to the extent required by law.
We do not accept funding from political campaigns, candidate committees, or candidate-affiliated PACs.
Paid media disclosure.
From time to time, Keep Maui Nui Home produces and runs paid issue-advocacy media on television, radio, digital video, and social platforms. Paid media carries the disclosure "Paid for by Keep Maui Nui Home" in compliance with state and federal disclosure requirements.
The content on this site, ourmaui.org, is not paid advertising. It is educational content produced by the organization. The two are distinct in how we produce, label, and distribute them.
Corrections policy.
We correct errors when we find them or when readers report them. Material corrections are noted on the page with a brief description of what changed and when. Minor corrections (typos, formatting) are made silently. Send corrections through our contact form.
Privacy.
We collect the minimum data we need to operate this site.
What we collect
- Email addresses voluntarily submitted through our contact form.
- Standard server logs (IP address, browser type, referring page, request time) for security and basic traffic analysis.
- Aggregate, anonymized analytics on which pages and issues are most read. We use Plausible, a privacy-friendly, cookie-free analytics tool that collects no personal data. We do not track individual users.
What we do not do
- We do not sell or share email addresses with third parties.
- We do not embed social widgets, ad networks, or trackers that profile you. Our only third-party request is to our cookie-free analytics, which sets no cookies and stores no personal data.
Your rights
You may request deletion of any data we hold through our contact form. We will confirm deletion within 30 days.
Terms of use.
Content on this site is published under a Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license unless otherwise noted. You may share and adapt our content for non-commercial purposes with attribution to Our Maui and a link to the original page. Photo, video, and chart credits remain with their original creators.
We make no warranty about the completeness or accuracy of information on this site. We do our best. If we are wrong, we correct it.
Contact for questions.
For questions about anything on this page, use our contact form.
Last updated: June 9, 2026. This page is reviewed annually and updated as our policies change.