Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 28, Number 6, 1 Iune 2011 — OHA seeks partners to assist with outreach [ARTICLE]

OHA seeks partners to assist with outreach

By Garett Kamemoto The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is soliciting bids from nonprofit organizations capable of providing services to improve family ineome levels, raise education achievement levels and improve heahh conditions among Native Hawaiians in the state. OHA has issued a solicitation for proposals seeking partners in the community to assist with three advocacy initiatives. They are: • Raising family-income levels to help foster eeonomie self-sufficiency. • Meeting or exceeding educational achievement standards for elementary, intermediate and high school students as well as increasing eollege graduation rates. • Reducing heahh risks by decreasing the obesity rate among Native Hawaiians. Up to $250,000 per year in grants is available to organizations to not only spearhead efforts that support these advocacy initiatives, but that also have a measurable effect on any of these three priorities. Funding for this effort is available for up to two years, starting Dec. 1, 201 1. "The effort represents a new dimension to OHA's approach to engaging community-based organizations to assist the Native Hawaiian eommunity in addressing needs in education, heahh and family ineome," said OHA Chief Executive Officer Clyde W. Nāmu'o. "We have shifted our focus from serving individual needs to applying our resources to programs and activities that will lead to systemic change and maximize our impact on all Hawaiians." The deadline for Letters of Interest is 4 p.m. Monday, June 6, 2011. Letters of Interest should be sent to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, ATTN: Grants Processing: CPP/LOI, 711 Kapi'olani Blvd. Suite 500, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96813. Only those submitting letters before the deadline will be considered. For more information about the Community Partners proposal, visit www.oha.org, eall (808) 594-0243 or email grantsinfo@oha.org. ■

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