Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 32, Number 6, 1 June 2015 — OHA's grants awards will go toward supporting the following 27 community-based projects: [ARTICLE]

OHA's grants awards will go toward supporting the following 27 community-based projects:

• Hawaiian Community Assets; $530,118; The Increasing Eeonomie Self-Sufficiency of Native Hawaiians through Stable Housing project will provide financial literacy education, housing counseling and asset-building products to increase the capacity of 500 low-ineome Native Hawaiians to rent or own homes. • Effective Parenting and Innovative Communication ine.; $33,350; The Hawai'i Youth Opportunities Initiative Opportunity Passport provides financial literacy training and matching funds for a security deposit and first month's rent for young people through age 25 who were in foster care. • Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement; $348,780; The Hawai'i Individual Development Account Project will provide financial education, counseling and match-savings grants up to $5,000 to eligible Native Hawaiians who are first-time homebuyers in Hawai'i to support 40 new homeowners by addressing some of the most eommon barriers to homeownership. • Parents and Children Together; $523,000; The Ready to Work and Career Support Services project will increase the incomes of Native Hawaiians by delivering an array of services that promote employability and job retention, including job-preparation training, vocational and two-year degree scholarships, and high school equivalency preparation. • Goodwill Industries of Hawaii ine.; $443,100; The Employment Core and Career Support Services project will provide employment core and career support services for Native Hawaiians to improve their ability to obtain higherwage employment, thereby increasing their eeonomie self-sufficiency. • University of Hawaii on behalf of its Maui College; $350,000; The CareerLink program will provide support services, financial literacy and employment readiness workshops, GED preparation, scholarships and employment opportunities to Native Hawaiians in Maui County. • Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island; $230,000; The Hua Ola Project will strengthen health for Native Hawaiian and other Club members by skillfully instilling healthy lifelong fitness and diet habits in the youth of three Boys & Girls Clubs through culturally responsive minds- and bodiesinvolved experiential healthy lifestyles education delivered by caring Club mentors. • I Ola Lāhui Ine.; $360,000; The Kūlana Hawai'i project will provide comprehensive, culturally minded weight- and chronic-disease-management services to Native Hawaiian adults and their families to increase their engagement in healthy lifestyle behaviors. • Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Ser\ices; $286,000; The Ehuola 'Ohana Health Project will foster health ffom the first breath through the last, preventing chronic disease through a conceptual ffamework of na'au, 'āina and kai, kanaka, mauli and ola. Native Hawaiian keiki, mākua, wahine hāpai and their kāne will leam cultural practices supporting nutrition and birthing, reclaiming a legacy of health. • Kualapu'u Public Conversion Charter School; $270,512; The Project Pū'olo will work to reduce the rate of

childhood obesity in students in grades K-6 and empower students and families in making positive health choices through a school-based initiative that integrates physieal activity, health and nutrition education, and family engagement with in-school student support and elinieal health services. • The Salvation Army-Family Treatment Ser\dces; $224,000; The Ola Kino Maika'i project will provide women in residential substance abuse treatment, and their children, obesity prevention and intervention to prevent excessive weight gain while women are engaged in smoking cessation and leaming to live a drag-ffee lifestyle and to prevent feeding practices that could result in obesity in their children. • The Queen's Medieal Center; $380,000; The Hana Ola Project will implement a culturally relevant, community-based program based on health and nutrition education, and physical activity to reduce the incidence and severity of obesity among Native Hawaiians, in order to improve their overall well-being, and reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors. • After-School All-Stars Hawaii; $473,950; These programs in two O'ahu and three Hawai'i Island Title 1 middle and intermediate schools operate at school sites to provide comprehensive after-school programs to improve proficiency in reading and math. • Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui ine.; $375,600; The Power Hour Program provides a safe and nurturing environment for middle and high school youth to develop good study habits and where they ean complete homework assignments, with the goal of improving Native Hawaiian student proficiency in reading and math so that they ean increase standardized test scores. • Edueational Serviees Hawaii Foundation; $186,380; The Ime Tke Leaming Centers target at-risk Native Hawaiians, currently or formerly in foster care, in grades four to 12 by engaging them in academic and socio-emotional programs, meeting their needs so they ean meet or exceed standard-based testing in reading and math. • Hui Malama Learning Center; $424,070; Hui Malama Leaming Center addresses the complex educational and social needs of at-risk youth age 1 1-24 by providing holistic and integrated educational services to improve reading and math proficiency. • Edith Kanaka'ole Foundation; $300,000; The purpose of this project is to rebuild and restore the Hula Heiau at Imakakoloa, Ka'ū, along with the ritual dances, chants and vocabulary necessary for this work so that hula practitioners and their families ffom Hawai'i and around the world will participate fully in this process from start to finish and beyond as a part of their hula execution. • Hui Mālama Ola Nā 'Ōiwi; $127,491; The purpose of this project is to provide Traditional Native Hawaiian Healing Art Education to Native Hawaiians throughout the communities of Hawai'i Island to perpetuate and develop strategies that expand the knowledge, respect and practieal application of lā'au lapa'au, lomilomi ha ha, lā'au kāhea and ho'oponopono. • Kānehūnāmoku Voyaging Aeademy; $299,001; The purpose of this project is to provide opportunities to over 1,500 of

0'ahu's youth to leam about and experience traditional Hawaiian navigation, and the dynamic and complex cycles of plant-based resource management and skilled materials preparation used by ancient navigators to prepare for long-distance voyages. • Kohe Mālamalama o Kanaloa - Proteet Kaho'olawe Fund; $129,100; I Ola Kanaloa will strengthen the cultural identity and engagement of Native Hawaiian haumana, hui and 'ohana on Hawai'i, Maui, Moloka'i, O'ahu and Kaua'i by providing them the opportunity to connect with, honor and care for the 'āina and cultural sites; revitalize cultural relationships; and leam cultural practices and protocols through Kaho'olawe. • Kula no nā Po'e Hawaii; $40,000; This program creates a cadre of cultural practitioners with knowledge and proficiency in the carving of papa and pōhaku ku'i 'ai using traditional materials and methods. They will teach their community members how to make their own implements and will coordinate monthly gatherings to pound poi, thereby perpetuating a valued cultural practice. • PAH Foundation; $104,408; MAMo: Maoli Arts Month is a broad community-based effort to celebrate the depth, breadth and diversity of the Native Hawaiian arts community, to create eeonomie opportunities for Native Hawaiian artists and cultural practitioners by increasing their presence in museums and galleries, and to educate locals and visitors about Native Hawaiian art. • Ka Honua Momona International; $200,000; The purpose of this project is to retum momona (health and abundance) to the land and people of Moloka'i through the community-based restoration of two ancient Hawaiian fishponds. • Kāko'o 'Ōiwi; $224,718; The purpose of this project is to restore and effectively manage ecologically and geographically linked kīpuka within He'eia, increasing the capacity and resilience of ecologieal and food-producing systems in our ahupua'a for the benefit of Hawaiians and other community members on O'ahu. • Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Serviees; $201,074; The purpose of this project is to restore the health of the Kalihi ahupua'a by promoting cultural practices for kama'āina (residents) and malihini (visitors) to ultimately improve the health of the Māluawai watershed thereby ensuring its long-term sustainability. • Kua'āina Ulu 'Auamo; $217,608; KUA will build and strengthen at least three "communities of practice" for 'āina-based food production, providing targeted, coordinated: (1) facilitation, (2) technical assistance/training and (3) communications that will join together the efforts of at least 30 raral Hawaiian communities to increase community-based, Hawaiian-centered food production. • Ma Ka Hana Ka Hke; $156,600; The purpose of Mahele Farm is to provide agricultural skills training to Hāna keiki, 'ohana and kūpuna to promote sustainable food crop management, strengthen relationships between our 'āina and community, increase the health of this kīpuka, and enhanee loeal stewardship of land-based cultural resources. ■