Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 10, 1 October 2006 — OHA awards $1.8 million in grants [ARTICLE]

OHA awards $1.8 million in grants

By KWŪ Staff At a meeting on Sept. 14, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' Board of Trustees awarded 17 community groups a total of $1,813,517 in grants from proposals that were submitted in April. Projects receiving grants ranged from heahh services and marine resource management to prisoner re-integration and preschool scholarships. Eaeh proposal was assessed on the project's potential impact for the Hawaiian community and relevance to the goals of OHA's strategic plan. OHA's grants funding is based on 10 percent of its total operating budget - $34.9 million for Fiscal Year 2007. Accordingly, $3.4 million was budgeted for competitive community grants. The recent grant awards are as follows:

• The Bay Clinic ine.: $98,000, to support direct dental services and preventive heahhcare education through the Kea'au Family Heahh Center. • Community Conservation Network: $100,000, to support the management of critieal Hawaiian marine natural and cultural resources. • Hawai'i Center for Attitudinal Healing: $53,114, to promote heahh education through literacy and the arts to elementary school students. • Hawai'i Nature Center: $98,480, to support culture and science-based environmental education to elementary schools students on O'ahu, Maui, Moloka'i and Lāna'i. • Ho'omau Ke Ola: $31,125, to support the first annual Makahiki Games Festival for clients, staff and the community. • KAHEA: The Hawaiian

Environmental Allianee: $48,575, to support skill-build-ing and training workshops to empower organizations and individuals concerned whh protecting natural resources and Hawaiian cultural rights. • Kaloko-Honōkohau National Historie Park: $99,044, to support the reconstruction of the Kaloko fishpond wall. • Maui Eeonomie Opportunity Ine.: $49,800, to support the B.E.S.T. reintegration program, whieh provides comprehensive transitional support to offenders/ex-offenders at Maui Community Correctional Center. • Offīce for Social Ministry: $80,000, to support the Mobile Care Heahh Project, whieh provides dental care to uninsured and underinsured populations. • Partners in Development Foundation: $99,352 - to sup-

port the Kōkua 'Ohana foster parent program. • Turning Point for Families Ine.: $99,925, to support the Domestic Violence Intervention Program, whieh utilizes tradihonal Hawaiian beliefs, practices and values. • Wai'anae Coast Early Childhood Services: $90,000, to provide preschool scholarships to low-ineome families on the Wai'anae Coast. • Windward Spouse Abuse Shelter Ine.: $250,000, to provide a safe haven to battered women as they work to rebuild their lives. • Aloha 'Āina Health Center Ine.: $58,000, to support ahupua'a program curriculum development and implementation. • Partners in Development: $191,849, to support the Baibala Hemolele project to produce recording of the entire Hawaiian Bible, website and workshops. • Partners in Development: $212,989, to support the Tūtū

and Me preschool program on Moloka'i. • Tri-Isle Resource, Conservation and Development Ine.: $153,264, to support eultural preservation in Hālawa Valley, Moloka'i, on behalf of the Hālawa Valley Cooperative. Grant proposals received by OHA are reviewed by staff and rated by subject matter specialists. The OHA Board of Trustees receives recommendations from staff, and votes on proposals. Grant requests for less than $25,000 may be awarded by the OHA administrator. Projects funded by OHA's grants program must address the agency's goals and objectives in the following areas: advocacy/native rights, eulture, eeonomie development, education, environment/natural resources, nationhood, policy, social services, land/housing and heahh. For information on OHA community grants, visit www. oha.org, or eall 594-1925. ^