Hawai’i Marine Animal Response (HMAR) ensures that when a marine animal is in distress, trained responders, specialized equipment, and authorized care are already in place. That level of readiness is built through sustained, strategic investment.
Corporate partners sustain the frontline response infrastructure that protects Hawai’i’s endangered monk seals, sea turtles, and seabirds across O’ahu and Molokai.
This is not sponsorship, it is stewardship.
What Your Partnership Sustains
For more than a decade, HMAR has served as Hawai’i’s frontline marine animal response organization – operating year-round to respond to emergencies, manage critical habitats, educate communities to prevent harm before it happens, and operate the only full-time sea turtle emergency care facility on Oʻahu, where the majority of sea turtle strandings happen in Hawaiʻi.
Your partnership sustains the infrastructure behind every successful outcome. In Hawai’i, this work is grounded in kuleana – a shared responsibility to care for what has been entrusted to us, across generations. Some of this infrastructure includes:
- Hotline response and coordination
- Trained, authorized field responders
- Rescue vehicles, vessels, and other needed equipment and supplies
- Emergency veterinary care and rehabilitation at our HMAR Care Center
- Ongoing habitat management and species monitoring
- Community education that reduces human-wildlife conflict
“Readiness is invisible — until the moment it saves a life.”
Proven impact from this readiness:
Over85,000
contacts handled by our hotlines reporting marine protected animals that may need support.
More than34,000
instances of field support activity conducted by HMAR volunteers and staff.
Over400,000
people reached with face-to-face marine conservation outreach and education.
More than3,200
rescues, stranding responses, and intervention support operations for animals that need help.
Over90%
success rate for patients at our HMAR Care Center.
Over30
endangered, threatened, and at-risk species protected.
These outcomes are not accidental. They are a result of readiness.
These aren’t just numbers. These are monk seal pups who survived their first weeks of life. Sea turtles swimming free after treatment and rehabilitation from life-threatening entanglements. Seabird colonies thriving because someone said “yes.” Your partnership makes every one of these outcomes possible.
Why Companies Partner with HMAR
Proven and Authorized
HMAR is the only organization providing comprehensive marine animal response across O’ahu and Molokai, operating under federal and state permits and with agreements and collaboration with NOAA, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the State of Hawai’i. This ensures partners are investing in work that is accountable, compliant, and effective.
Essential to Hawaiʻi
Hawai’i’s ocean ecosystem is inseparable from the state’s identity, economy, and quality of life. Protecting marine life is foundational to doing business here – and to sustaining the communities, environments, and industries that depend on a healthy ocean.
Transparent and Measurable
With a GuideStar Platinum rating and detailed impact reporting, partners receive credible data to support CSR, sustainability, and ESG reporting, grounded in real outcomes from the field.
Meaningful Engagement
Corporate partners may have opportunities to connect directly with HMAR’s work through education, outreach days, and behind-the-scenes learning experiences. Select partners may be invited to observe field operations alongside HMAR’s trained responders, offering a deeper understanding of the care, coordination, and responsibility involved in marine animal response.
Partnership Frameworks
Every investment level represents a real, tangible impact for Hawaiʻi's most vulnerable marine species. Choose the level that resonates with your corporate values and your commitment to protecting Hawai’i’s special marine animals.
$25,000 · LEGACY CIRCLE
HMAR Care Center Cornerstone
“Sustaining the care that makes survival possible.”
Your Impact:
Sustains one full month of HMAR Care Center operations, providing expert husbandry and veterinary support for sea turtles needing critical care, with emergency readiness and the medical resources behind our 90% success rate.
Recognition:
- Named recognition on HMAR Care Center donor wall
- Periodic impact calls with HMAR’s President and our HMAR Animal Care Manager
- Exclusive behind-the-scenes HMAR Care Center tours
- Participation in sea turtle patient releases
- Featured profile in annual HMAR Impact Report with logo recognition
What This Means:
Your corporation ensures every sick or injured animal that arrives at our door gets world-class care, 365 days a year. When members of our community find a sea turtle in distress, your company is the reason help is coming.
$15,000 · GUARDIAN CIRCLE
Emergency Response Leader
“Equipping the responders who answer when minutes matter.”
Your Impact:
Helps equip the field response team for one year – rescue vehicles and vessels, transportation, fuel, insurance, supplies, and training for 300+ annual emergency responses where minutes can mean the difference for Hawaiian monk seals, sea turtles, and seabirds.
Recognition:
- Featured story in annual HMAR Impact Report
- VIP volunteer experience (ride-along with our response team)
- Named recognition on our website and social media
- Invitation to our annual appreciation event
What This Means:
Your corporation puts trained responders on the ground or in the ocean within minutes of an emergency call. Speed saves lives, and you make that speed possible.
$7,500 · STEWARD CIRCLE
Seabird Lifeline
“Protecting fragile habitats before harm occurs.”
Your Impact:
Your corporation supports 50 seabird rescues, habitat management at critical nesting colonies, and community education to reduce seabird predation and deadly light pollution.
Recognition:
- Named recognition in quarterly newsletter and website
- Social media acknowledgment
- Invitation to habitat management volunteer day
- Detailed impact report on your project outcomes
What This Means:
Your corporation gives 50 vulnerable seabirds a fighting chance at survival— protecting species whose existence depends on our community actions and care.
$5,000 · PROTECTOR CIRCLE
Hawaiian Monk Seal Pup Champion
“Supporting the next generation of an endangered species.”
Your Impact:
Funds complete a Hawaiian monk seal mom and pup monitoring operation, perimeter fencing to reduce human/dog interactions, and regular HMAR volunteer or staff presence to record animal development and conduct public education.
Recognition:
- Named recognition in newsletter and website
- Personal impact update on your Hawaiian monk seal and pup
- Certificate of appreciation
What This Means:
Your corporation protects the all-important Hawaiian monk seal pupping process, which is so critical for this very endangered marine mammal that is found nowhere else on Earth.
$2,500 · ADVOCATE CIRCLE
Hotline Lifeline
“Ensuring every call for help is answered.”
Your Impact:
Your organization provides one full week of hotline coverage (100-200 hotline contacts answered), ensuring no report goes unaddressed and every community member gets expert guidance when animals need help.
Recognition:
- Recognition in newsletter and website
- Impact summary of calls handled during your week
- Certificate of appreciation
What This Means:
Your organization ensures that when someone finds a seal in distress, a turtle entangled in fishing line, or a grounded seabird—help is just a phone call away. Your support provides the HMAR voice on the phone that says, “We’re coming.”
Customize Your Sponsorship
Create Something Special
“Every great partnership begins with a conversation.”
Your Impact:
Work directly with HMAR to design a sponsorship package built around your company’s specific goals, values, and budget. Whether you want to focus on a particular species, program, or geographic area, HMAR will collaborate with your team to create something meaningful and measurable.
Recognition:
- Benefits customized to your partnership level and structure
- Named recognition tailored to your investment
- Direct relationship with HMAR leadership
What This Means:
Your organization helps define what’s possible. Custom partnerships allow HMAR to grow in new directions while giving your team a deeply personal connection to HMAR’s marine protection work.
The Moment We’re In
Hawai’i is home to nearly 25% of all endangered species in the United States. At the same time, threats to marine life are increasing.
For over ten years, HMAR has built the foundation. The next decade requires acceleration.
Corporate partnerships now supports:
- Expanded response capacity
- Strengthened HMAR Care Center operations
- Resilient capacity with rescue vehicles, vessels, and related equipment
- Volunteer and training pipelines
- Scaled education and prevention
Minutes matter. Readiness saves lives.
The question is no longer whether this work is needed – it’s who will help carry it forward.
The infrastructure is built. The need is growing.
Leadership now determines what happens next.
Start the Conversation
The most effective partnerships begin with conversation — not tiers.
We’d love to learn about your company’s goals and explore how a partnership can strengthen both your team and Hawaiʻi’s marine protection infrastructure.
Hawaiʻi Marine Animal Response is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 81-1077953.
Corporate contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
