Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 3, 1 March 2007 — OHA grant awards [ARTICLE]

OHA grant awards

By KWŪ staff On Feb. 1, OHA's Board of Trustees approved its third round of community grants for Fiscal Year 2007 (July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007). Community grants are awarded to nonprofit applicants who provide services and programs that benefit the Native Hawaiian community. The five grants awarded totaled $411,264, bringing the agency's FY-07 community grants total to $2.74 million. In addition, the trustees approved a board initiative grant of $100,000 to Teach America Ine. to be used for the recruitment, selection, training and support of teachers who will work in Hawai'i public schools with a high population of Native Hawaiians. An additional $100,000 was also approved for eaeh of the next two fiseal years, contingent upon an evaluation of the program after the first year. The community grant recipients are: • Family Promise of Hawai 'i: $100,000, for a consortium of multi-faith churches and eongregations that provides shelter, food and counseling to

"transitional homeless" families with members who are working and in school. About 70 percent of current cases are Native Hawaiian families. • Keōmailani Hanapl Foundation: $96,164,forsponsorship of Native Hawaiian artists to attend PIKO 2007, an indigenous artists forum to be held in Waimea, Hawai'i in June 2007. • Ma Ka Hana Ka 'Ike: $80,000, for a Hāna, Mauibased vocational program that fosters construction skills in students who build and renovate homes for kūpuna. The program also provides training in the construction of access ramps for wheelchairs. • 'Ohana Makamae Ine.: $35,100, for a Hāna, Mauibased substance abuse treatment program. • Papa Ola Lōkahi: $100,000, for capacity building for five Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems. OHA will be accepting community grant applications between April 1 and June 30 for the coming fiscal year. For information on OHA's Community Grants Program, visit www.oha.org or eall 594-1888.