Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 22, Number 3, 1 March 2005 — OHA board approves $2.1 million in community grants [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OHA board approves $2.1 million in community grants

By Manu Boyd At two separate meetings in February, OHA's Board of Trustees approved 25 community grants totaling more than $2.1 million. Recipients of the grants included organizations serving homeless and at-risk families, cultural preservation projects, educational initiatives, an HIV/AIDS awareness program, environmental protection projects and more. Prior to approval, the grant applications were reviewed by OHA grants staff and other personnel in the appropriate program areas, then recommended to the board's Asset and Resource Management and Beneficiary Advocacy committees. The grant awards were then approved unanimously by the full board. OHA accepts grant proposals twice eaeh year. Proposals must support goals and objectives of OHA's strategic plan, and should be submitted by nonprofit organizations. Grant applications and information are available online at www. OHA.org. The next deadline for grant proposals is

Fri., April 29, 2005. Formore information on OHA's grants program, eall 594-1762. What follows is a list of the 19 organizations that were awarded grants on Feb. 3. In April, we will list the 16 organizations that were awarded grants on Feb. 24. For a list of all the recipients, visit oha.org. • Aka'ula School: $91,700, to support an independent middle school on Moloka'i whieh addresses the unique academic needs of the community. • Blue Print for Change: $105,560, to support the establishment of a Neighborhood 'Ohana Center as a "pu'uhonua," a safe and nurturing plaee for families and children at risk for child abuse and neglect, in collaboration with the Neighborhood Plaee of Wailuku. • Catholic Charities Hawai'i: $100,000, to support the Mā'ili Land Transitional Housing Program in assisting homeless families to transition to permanent housing. • Earthjustice: $50,000, to support the Laulima Initiative to restore the four great waters of Maui. • Ho'omau Ke Ola: $40,000, to improve the current residential substance abuse treatment program by

extending cultural healing approaches to the outpatient and day treatment curriculum. • Hui Hānai: $40,000, to preserve and restore damaged audio tapes of original interviews collected for "Nānā I Ke Kumu," volume III. • Hula Preservation Society: $72,882, to support the collection of oral histories of hula masters through a digital documentation project. • Kamauoha Foundation: $84,200, to support agricultural and eeonomie community-based development through the farming, harvesting, processing and marketing of noni. • Keaukaha Elementary School: $66,008, to implement Project Kāko'o, a core-reading program. • Life Foundation: $50,000, to support the Hawaiian HIV services program offering awareness, prevention and casemanagement services. • Maui Arts & Cultural Center: $50,000, to support the Ke Kahua Pa'a cultural program initiative. • Nā Kai 'Ewalu Canoe Club: $32,500, to build a new koa eanoe following traditional cultural practices. • Nānākuli High & Intermediate

School: $75,226, to support the Literacy Improvement Project. • Olomana School: $44,508, to support the after-school, technology-based enrichment and pre-vocational training program for incarcerated youth at the Hawai'i Youth Correctional Facility. • Partners in Development: $44,045, to support the purchase of a bus for use by the Kohala Intergenerational Center on the island of Hawai'i. • Protect Kaho'olawe Fund: $50,000, to support cultural and environmental stewardship projects on the island of Kaho'olawe. • Turning Point for Families, ine.: $99,925, to implement Ke Ala Lōkahi, a domestic violence prevention program based on traditional Hawaiian values, beliefs and practices. • Wai'anae Coast Early Childhood Services: $37,500, to provide preschool scholarships for children on the Wai'anae coast. • YMCA Communities in Schools of Hawai'i Project: $86,737, to support Ke Ala 'Ohana, a program to implement the 'Ohana Management System method of culturally coherent provision of services. V

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