Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 4, 1 April 2007 — OHA grants [ARTICLE]

OHA grants

OHA's Community Grants Program will accept applications postmarked April 1 through lune 30, 2007, for the next Grants Program cycle. Funds for these Fiscal Year 2008 grants will not be available until after Iuly 1, 2007. The OHA Grants Program administers two categories of grants: Kauhale Grants (requests up to $24,999) and Kaiāulu Grants (requests between $25,000 and $100,000). To be eligible for funding, an applicant must meet the following criteria: • The organization must have IRS tax-exempt nonprofit status (operating in the state of Hawai'i) or be a government agency; • The project must benefit Native Hawaiians individually or as a group in such areas as education, heakh, human services, housing, eeonomie development, land/natural resource protection, native rights and culture; and • The organization must provide a percentage of total costs in other funds or in-kind donations (percentage detennined by the amount of funding requested). In addition, all applicants must attend an OHA grants workshop or meet with grants program staff within 12 months prior to submitting an applieahon. For more information or to register for a workshop, please eall Grants Program staff at 594-1972 or visit the OHA website at www. oha.org.

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