Keep Hawai‘i Beautiful!
Your Support Is Not Just a Donation – It Is an Investment in Hawai‘i’s Future
​and a Commitment to “Keep Hawai‘i Beautiful”!
For over 112 years, everyone in Hawai‘i has been the beneficiary of The Outdoor Circle’s beautification and advocacy efforts.

Billboards: Communities statewide enjoy neighborhoods, business districts, highways, and view planes free of billboards due to The Outdoor Circle’s continuing vigilance.

Tree Planting and Beautification: Residents and visitors across the state enjoy and are sustained by The Outdoor Circle’s tree planting and beautification efforts in our neighborhoods, along major thoroughfares, and in parks and botanical gardens.

Cultural Heritage: The Outdoor Circle has played a major role in preserving and protecting Hawai‘i’s rich historical and cultural heritage.

Environmental Stewardship: For over a century, The Outdoor Circle has been at the forefront of environmental causes, such as advocating for statewide recycling, under-grounding of utilities, protection and preservation of our fragile natural resources, and the establishment of Hawai‘i’s Environmental Court.

Who We Are
Founded in 1912, The Outdoor Circle is Hawai‘i’s oldest and leading non-profit organization for protecting and enhancing the environment and natural beauty of Hawai‘i. Through the efforts of generations of our dedicated volunteers, we have pursued our stewardship mission of keeping our islands clean, green and beautiful.

Hawai‘i is our shared home, and it is our collective duty to protect these beautiful islands for future generations, to ensure that our communities are livable, our families are healthy, and our spirits are nourished by our green environment. We invite you to join us!

The Outdoor Circle has a proven track record of performance and reliability and holds the prestigious GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency indicating outstanding leadership and effectiveness. The Outdoor Circle and its Branches from Kaua‘i to Hawai‘i Island operate through all-volunteer Boards of Directors, consisting of experienced urban planners, landscape architects, arborists, native species experts, and engaged community members who care deeply about maintaining the beauty of our island state. We maintain a small, dedicated central office staff headed by an Executive Director, all of whom have extensive backgrounds in environmental sciences and non-profit operations.

What We Do
Through our civic engagement, The Outdoor Circle strives not only to enhance our public green-scapes through community-based beautification and tree planting projects, but to educate the public about the value and importance of environmental stewardship.

But our work does not stop there. We continue to protect our landscape and scenic view planes from visual clutter and billboards, maintain green spaces and nature parks, protect wetlands, watersheds and cultural sites, rehabilitate and preserve native forests and ecosystems and strongly advocate for sound public policies ensuring that our island home is livable and sustainable.

The vision of The Outdoor Circle’s early founders over a century ago has fostered and inspired generations of environmental stewards who have kept this legacy alive and flourishing. We welcome you to join us!
Why Your Support for The Outdoor Circle Matters to Hawai‘i
The Outdoor Circle’s history over the last 112 years is filled with well-recognized significant achievements, such as our 1912 campaign to eliminate billboards from the Territory of Hawai‘i, and subsequently from the State.  Hawai‘i’s billboard-free environment is now the envy of the nation. Our tree planting and tree preservation projects started in urban Honolulu in 1912 and have spread throughout communities across the islands, with over one million trees planted to date.

In 1913, The Outdoor Circle collaborated with the “Daughters of Hawai‘i” to save the deteriorating Queen Emma Summer Palace from demolition to install a baseball park. In 1914 and 1922, we spearheaded replanting the ‘Iolani Palace grounds, and we refurbished the gardens of Washington Place in the 1930s and again in 1963. The Outdoor Circle led the clearing of Ulupo Heiau, in Kailua, Oahu, for archeological inspection in 1951, and restored Pahua Heiau in Hawai‘i Kai, Oahu in 1984 … thus preserving these valuable cultural and historical resources for the benefit of all of Hawai‘i.

The Outdoor Circle established Oahu’s first recycling plant in 1967, “Cash for Trash”, which led to the 1977 “Hawai‘i State Litter Control Bill, Act 2”, whose provisions are still in force in the Hawai‘i Revised Statutes. Through our advocacy, Oahu’s Kualoa Ahupua‘a was protected from development and placed on the State Historic Register in 1974, and the Diamond Head State Monument and Crater, one of the most visited attractions in Hawai‘i, was dedicated and opened to the public by The Outdoor Circle in 1978.

The Outdoor Circle founded the Hawai‘i Nature Center in Makiki, Oahu in 1981, the Sadie Seymour Botanical Gardens in Kona in 1986, the Ulu La‘au Nature Park in Waimea, Hawai‘i Island in 1999, and helped establish the Waikoloa Dry Forest Initiative in 2012 … thus cultivating and fostering the public’s appreciation for and stewardship of Hawai‘i’s unique natural environment.

Through The Outdoor Circle’s advocacy efforts in 2004, we spearheaded Hawai‘i State tax incentives to protect our Heritage and Exceptional Trees and, in 2014, were instrumental in establishing the Hawai‘i State Environmental Court, the second in the nation.
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FOR OVER A CENTURY, ALL OF HAWAI‘I HAS BEEN THE BENEFICIARY OF THE BEAUTIFICATION,
​ADVOCACY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL WORK OF THE OUTDOOR CIRCLE.

LET'S KEEP HAWAI‘I BEAUTIFUL!