Posted on: Friday, March 25, 2005
Hawaiian programs gain $2.1M in grants
By Vicki Viotti
Advertiser Staff Writer
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has approved community grants totaling more than $2.1 million, allotments benefiting a range of programs to strengthen the health, culture and welfare of Native Hawaiians.
The grants support efforts to store arts and literature in electronic libraries, use Hawaiian approaches to overcome substance abuse and achieve other goals that are compatible with the OHA strategic plan.
That compatibility is a requirement for grant recipients, which also must be nonprofit organizations.
These grant proposals were submitted in August and underwent review by OHA staff. The board of trustees then discussed the proposals, which were approved unanimously by the board.
OHA accepts grant proposals twice each year. Deadline for the next round of grant proposals is April 29.
Applications and information are available at www.ohs.org or by calling 594-1762. The awards:
• Aka'ula School — $91,700, to support an independent middle school on Moloka'i. • Aloha House — $42,102, to provide substance-abuse services on Maui, incorporating the use of cultural practices. • Alu Like Inc. — $49,850, to support the expansion of the Ulukau Hawaiian Electronic Library project; $90,000, to support the Hui Na 'Opio o Na Ko'olau program work with the Hawai'i Youth Correctional Facility. • American Lung Association — $50,000, to support the Open Airways for Schools program providing early childhood asthma education. • Anahola Ancient Culture Exchange — $41,238, to support the Ho'okahua Project to build and maintain a traditional agricultural site in Anahola, Kaua'i. • Blueprint for Change — $105,560, to support the establishment of a Neighborhood 'Ohana Center as a safe haven, or "pu'uhonua," for Maui families at risk of child abuse. • Catholic Charities Hawai'i — $100,000, to support the Ma'ili Land transitional housing program for homeless families. • Community Development Pacific — $109,464, to support the Mo'omomi Ahupua'a Management project on Moloka'i. • Earthjustice — $50,000, to support the Laulima Initiative to restore the four great waters of Maui. • Hawai'i Community Television — $47,896, to support the video documentary "Heart Strings — The Story of the Kamaka Ukulele." • Habitat for Humanity, Moloka'i — $50,000, to support the construction of two homes on the island of Moloka'i. • Hawai'i Maoli — $46,250, to support the Ke Alaula O Ka Huliau Project to video and document oral history interviews with kupuna. • Hawaiian Legacy Foundation — $100,000, to support the Lahaina film documentary and the archival preservation of previous source material. • Ho'omau Ke Ola — $40,000, to improve the residential substance abuse treatment program by extending cultural healing approaches to the outpatient and day-treatment curriculum. • Hui Hanai — $40,000, to preserve and restore damaged audiotapes of original interviews collected for "Nana I Ke Kumu", volume III. • Hula Preservation Society — $72,882, to support the collections of oral histories of hula masters through a digital documentation project. • 'Ike 'Aina — $36,400, to support the establishment of a cultural learning center in Halawa Valley, O'ahu. • Institute for Criminal Rehabilitation — $46,875, to support the Nurturing Fathers Program of Hawai'i. • Kahuku Hospital — $36,126, to support the Hawai'i Covering Kids Kahuku Local Project to reduce the number of uninsured youth. • Kamauoha Foundation — $84,200, to support agricultural and economic community-based development through the farming, harvesting, processing and marketing of noni. • Keaukaha Community Association — $50,000, to support the construction of a playground as part of the Kawananakoa Gym. • Keaukaha Elementary School — $66,008, to implement Project Kako'o, a core-reading program. • Keola Laulima 'O Leikula — $44,000, to purchase a van for use in transporting the program's youths and elderly, disabled or disadvantaged clients. • Life Foundation — $50,000, to support the Hawaiian HIV services program offering awareness, prevention and case management services. • Maui Arts & Cultural Center — $50,000, to support the Ke Kahua Pa'a cultural program initiative. • Na Kai 'Ewalu Canoe Club — $32,500, to build a new koa canoe following traditional cultural practices. • Nanakuli High and Intermediate School — $75,226, to support the Literacy Improvement Project. • Olomana School — $44,508, to support the after-school enrichment and pre-vocational training program at the Hawai'i Youth Correctional Facility.
• Partners in Development — $44,045, to support the purchase of a bus for use by the Kohala Intergenerational Center on the island of Hawai'i.
• Protect Kaho'olawe Fund — $50,000, to support cultural and environmental stewardship projects on the island of Kaho'olawe.
• Turning Point for Families Inc. — $99,925, to implement Ke Ala Lokahi, a domestic violence prevention program based on traditional Hawaiian practices. • Wai'anae Coast Early Childhood Services — $37,500, to provide preschool scholarships for children on the Wai'anae Coast. • Wai'anae Community Outreach — $100,000, to support the design and planning of the Wai'anae Homeless Transitional Residential Center. • YMCA Communities in Schools of Hawai'i Project — $86,737, to support Ke Ala 'Ohana, a program that applies cultural approaches to family services.
