The Mālama ‘Āina Foundation is a curriculum development organization supported by the Consortium for Hawai‘i Ecological Engineering Education (CHEEE), which received a grant from the United States Department of Education under the terms of the Native Hawaiian Education Program. The Consortium was developed in order to maximize the cooperation of programs whose focus is primarily the curriculum development for K-12 native Hawaiian students, in the areas of science, mathematics, and the Hawaiian culture.