Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 1, 1 January 2006 — OHA Board approves $1.2 million in funding for community groups [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OHA Board approves $1.2 million in funding for community groups

Trustees award more than $700,000 in grants and another $500,000 in board initiatives

Ky Manu Huyd Public lnfnrmatinn Directnr On Dec, 8, the OHA Board of Trustees approved $704,050 in grants to 12 community organizations, ranging from a traditional agriculture project

to a cancer care program. In addition, the board approved separate initiatives of $109,000 to the Native Hawaiian Hospitahty Association and $400,000 to the Wolf Trap Foundation for Performing Arts, a nahonal park for performing arts

in Virginia where Hawaiian artists often appear. The latest awards brought the total funding awarded to eommunity groups in 2005 through the agency's Grants Program to more than $8 million. Initiatives funded by the OHA Grants Program must benefit Native Hawaiians and must ahgn with the goals and objectives of OHA's strategic plan. For information on OHA's Grants Program, eall 5941888. To the right are the organizations/programs that were awarded funding in December. This is the second round of grant proposals submitted in April 2005. A third and final round of grants from those submissions is slated for board review early in the new year. S

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John Lind, one of the founders of grant recipient Kīpahulu 'Ohana, at the Kapahu Living Farm. - Photo: Sterling Kini Wong