Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 24, Number 10, 1 October 2007 — OHA awards $190,000 in community grants [ARTICLE]

OHA awards $190,000 in community grants

By KWŪ staff In late August, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs approved a total of $190,511 in eommunity grants to nine nonprofit organizations in support of programs ranging from the development of a television documentary on Hawaiian chant to the provision of a tutoring service for dyslexic children and adults. The awards were the first of OHA's Fiscal Year 2008 grant-making cycle and the first in the agency's new Kauhale Grants category, whieh consists of awards helow $25,000. The Kauhale Grants comprise one component of the OHA Community Grants Program, whieh assists qualified nonprofit organizations with addressing the needs of the Hawaiian community in such areas as education, health, human services, native rights, land, culture, housing, eeonomie development and governance. In addition to the Kauhale Grants, the program administers Kaiāulu Grants between $25,000 and $100,000, and also offers the 'Ahahui Event Sponsorship Program. For information on funding eligibility requirements and application deadlines, visit the OHA website at www.oha.org. Recipients of the Kauhale Grants are: • Alu Like, ine.: $22,500, to support the purchase of a new 15-passen-ger van to transport kūpuna on Hawai'i Island. • Hawai'i Branch of the International Dyslexia Association: $24,500, to support the Odyssey Project in providing tutoring to disadvantaged children and adults

with dyslexia. • Hawai'i Community Action Program: $24,942, to support the Mālama Pono Project, whieh provides mentoring services to children of incarcerated parents in Windward O'ahu. • Hawai'i Community Television (on behalf of Alphamedia Corporation): $24,950, to support a onehour television documentary on the history cultural signifieanee and practice of traditional Hawaiian chant or oli. • Legal Services for Children: $21,113, to support the Empowering Parents as Advocates Project to ensure that homeless children with disabilities receive appropriate educational services. • Mediation Center of Moloka'i: $24,999, to support violenee prevention services on Moloka'i. • Moloka'i Community Services Council (on behalf of Moloka'i Canoe Racing Association): $24,999, to support the building of a koa eanoe to be used by the Moloka'i eanoe clubs. • Kaua'i Community College: $24,958, to support five Ni'ihau educators in attaining teacher certification and 17 facilities engineering students in attaining marketable job skills. • University of Hawai'i: $22,500, to support the Akeakamai 'Ōiwi Fellowship Program for doctoral candidates of Hawaiian ancestry.