Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 22, Number 11, 1 November 2005 — Board awards $685,000 in community grants [ARTICLE]

Board awards $685,000 in community grants

Also at the Oct. 6 OHA board meeting, the agency's trustees approved $685,000 in grants to 1 1 community groups serving a variety of needs, including an Alzheimer's outreach project, a service program for homeless veterans and a reintegration project for female prisoners. "We're pleased that OHA is able to support such a wide variety of needs within the Hawaiian eommunity," said Board Chairperson Haunani Apoliona. The recipients of the grants are: • Alzheimer's Association - Aloha Chapter: $71,644, to support the Alzheimer's Association Kikuyu Corps, a kūpuna Hawaiian outreach demonstration project focusing on underserved Hawaiian rural communities statewide. • Kōkua Kalihi Valley: $40,000, to support the Native Hawaiian Historic Preservation Project designed to protect, preserve and restore the historic Hawaiian eultural and archeological sites and native ecosystems within two 'ili of Kalihi Valley. In partnership with Hālau Lōkahi Charter School, the project will increase hands-on cultural restoration and educational activities for Hawaiian youth and others in the community. • Kona Historical Society: $124,250, to conduct research and analysis of Hawaiian Kingdom tax records and oral histories. • Manawale'a: $57,296, to eonstruct and renovate facilities at the riding center in Waimānalo to expand services for special-needs and indigent children. • Pacific American Foundation: $38,513, to support Project Mālama Waiwai, a pilot project to train Hawaiian high school students in financial management strategy and practices.

• PA'I Foundation: $74,310, on behalf of Hale Kū'ai, to support the development of a Native Hawaiian cultural certification trademark program to denote authentic works of cultural arts and crafts by Native Hawaiian artisans. • Partners In Development: $62,971, to support Nā Pono no nā 'Ohana, a community-based learning center coordinating early childhood and adult educational and vocational programs designed to improve the socioeconomic outlook for residents. The program currently operates at Blanche Pope Elementary School in Waimānalo. • Salvation Army Family Treatment Services: $88,144, for the Nā Lei Lōkahi program, whieh provides substance abuse treatment and domestic violence services through community outreach, education, support and treatment services for families of the Ko'olauloa community. • TJ Mahoney and Associates: $48,600, to support a transitional program for incarcerated female offenders' reintegration into the community using the "'Ohana Management System" methodology. • United States Veterans Initiative: $50,000, to provide outreach, treatment, housing, case management and employment assistance to homeless veterans through the Veterans In Progress (VIP) program. • UniversityofHawai'iFoundation: $29,065, on behalf of the William S. Richardson School of Law, to provide Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) preparation classes to Hawaiian students wishing to apply to law school, and to provide academic assistance to Hawaiian law students through tutoring in basic first-year courses. S