Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 8, 1 ʻAukake 1992 — OHA grant workshops [ARTICLE]

OHA grant workshops

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs will continue its series of free grant writing workshops in August and September with sessions on the islands of O'ahu and Maui. The workshops are designed to provide a general introduction to grants for people with no previous grant writing experience.

Topics to be covered include identifying sources of funding, developing a project idea, drafting a grant proposal. and developing a project budget. The workshops will also cover the basic steps in creating a nonprofit organization. The O'ahu workshop is being eosponsored by the HCAP-Wai'anae District Office and will be held on Saturday, August 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lili'uokalani Children's Center, 87-1876 Farrington Highway in Nanakuli. To register eall the HCAP-Wai'anae office at 696-4261 or Christine Valles at OHA at 586-

3777. The Maui workshop is being eosponsored by Ka Lahui o Maui and will be held on Saturday, September 19, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Lahaina. To register eall Blossom Feiteira at 242-9774 or Thelma Shimaoka in the OHA Maui office at 243-5219.

Added to the series in August are two workshops specifically focused on grants from the Administration for Native Americans. ANA provides grants for social and eeonomie development and governance projects to Native American organizations, including Hawaiian and American Samoan groups. These two-day workshops, conducted by Development Associates, the

ANA technical assistance providers for Hawai'i, will explain the ANA funding philosophy and the applieation procedures; provide hands-on practice in writing project objectives and completing the applieahon forms; discuss the development of a project business plan; and describe the proposal evaluation and review process.

The ANA workshops will be August 11 and 12 in the OHA Honolulu office at 711 Kapi'olani Blvd. and August 14 and 15 at the Cameron Center on Maui. The workshops begin at 8 a.m. both days and end at 5 p.m. The introductory grant workshops are being led by Valles, head of OHA's Planning and Research Office. Valles has been helping Hawaiian organizations apply for grants for the last five years. In time she has assisted more than 20 organizations obtain about $1 million in grants.