Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 11, Number 9, 1 September 1994 — Workshops aim to strengthen, stabilize CBED organizations [ARTICLE]

Workshops aim to strengthen, stabilize CBED organizations

The Department of Business, Eeonomie Development and Tourism. with support from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Hawai'i Allianee for Community-Based Development, has been holding a series of workshops throughout the summer that aim to educate community based organizations about the details of running a nonprofit. The training is designed to help participants strengthen and stabilize their community organization and aid them in developing skills to analyze, plan implement and evaluate eeonomie development

|Z1 ujvv . "We're trying to help these CBED groups develop a range of skills to make them more effective," e.\plains OHA eeonomie specialist Chris Van Bergeijk. Van Bergeijk says they want to impress on CBED organizations the need to look beyond just a single project and to build their organizational capacity so they have more and better programs and projects. "Community-based eeonomie development is not supposed to be just one project," Van Bergeijk points out. "The goal is eeonomie development for the whole community." Some of the specific objectives of the training include: • fund raising; • learning nonprofit management skills for the organization that deal with internal and external management issues; • developing skills to define eeonomie development in relationship to the community and the organization; and • learning how to determine whether a project will

further the eeonomie development goals of the people and their community and determining their feasibility. A number of native Hawaiian organizations are taking part in the meetings, including Hui Ulu Mea 'Ai whieh runs the Waiāhole Poi Factory, and Moloka'i's Ke Kua'āina Hanauma Hou. Both receive OHA support. The workshops began in July and will be held one weekend eaeh month for five months. They are designed and coordinated by Forecee HoganRnu/l(se ti

nationally recognized trainer and practitioner in the field of CommunityBased Eeonomie Development, e s p e e i a 1 1 y microenterprise development. CBED proponents hope the training will lead to the establishment of a more permanent training and education program for community practitioners from Hawai'i and elsewhere.