Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 10, 1 ʻOkakopa 1992 — ANA announces new grant deadlines [ARTICLE]

ANA announces new grant deadlines

The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) has set Oct. 9, Feb. 5, 1993 and May 14, 1993 as the proposal deadlines for 1993 fiseal year grants. This year ANA expects to award $14 million in grants. Organizations of Native Hawaiians, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, American Samoan Natives, and the indigenous peoples of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and the Republic of Palau are ehgible to apply. Grants provided by ANA are designed to promote the goal of self-sufficiency for Native American groups and organizations by supporting locally-determined social and eeonomie development strategies and by strengthening loeal govemance capabilities. ANA believes that responsibility for achieving self-sufficiency rests

with the governing bodies of Indian tribes, Alaskan Native villages, and in the leadership of Native American groups. ANA also believes that progress toward selfsufficiency requires active development and strengthening of governmental responsibilities, eeonomie progress, and improvement of social systems whieh protect and enhanee the health and eeonomie well-being of individuals, families and communities.

The ANA approach is based on two fundamental principles: first, the loeal community and its leadership are responsible for determining goals, setting priorities, and planning and implementing programs aimed at achieving those goals. The unique mix of socioeeonomie, political, and cultural factors in eaeh community makes such self-determination necessary.

The loeal community is in the best position to apply its own cultural, political, and socio-economic values to its long-term strategies and programs. Second, eeonomie development, self-governance, and social development are interrelated, and development in one area should be balanced with development in the others in order to move toward selfsufficiency. Consequently, comprehensive development strategies should address all aspects of the governmental, eeonomie, and social infrastructures needed to develop self-sufficient communities. ANA believes a Native Ameiiean community is self-sufficient when it ean generate and control the resources whieh are necessary to meet the needs of its members and to meet its own social and eeonomie goals. ANA expects its appli-

cants to have undertaken a longrange planning process to address the community's development. Proposed projects must then be based on these long-range plans, with non-ANA resources leveraged to strengthen and broaden the impact of the proposed project in the community. Projects of up to 36 months duration may be proposed. Grantees, with the exception of Native American Pacific Islanders, must provide at least 20 percent of the total approved cost of the project in cash or by in-kind contributions. Application kits containing the neeessary forms and instructions may be obtained from ANA by calling (202) 690-7727. More information about the ANA program ean be obtained from the OHA Planning Office by calling 586-3794.