Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 11, 1 November 2006 — September grant awards [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

September grant awards

Haunani Apuliuna. MSW Chairpersūn TrustEE, At-large

Aloha e nā 'ōiwi 'ōlino, nā pulapula a Hāloa, mai Hawai'i a Ni'ihau, a puni ke ao mālamalama. The OHA Board of Tmstees concluded decision-making and grant funding approvals on September 14. The September OHA grant awards funding included: • $100,000 to the Community Conservation Network, matched by approximately $138,000 from other sources, targeting community education and participation in Miloli'i, Ho'okena, Hōnaunau, Waihe'e, Kīhei, Hāna, Ewa Beach, Wai'anae, Pūpūkea-Waimea, Hā'ena, Waipā and Hanalei through whieh three critical maiine resource management prlorities will be pursued; •$53,144 to the Hawai'i Center For Attitudinal Healing. matched by approximately $128,000 from other sources for the ARTery*Health-Arts project to promote heahh education focusing on prevention through the medium of arts and literacy in collaboration with puhlie and charter schools, after school programs, private institutions, community and heahh organizations serving Hawaiian youth 10 and 1 1 years old; • $98,480 to the Hawai'i Nature Center, matched by approximately $102,000 from other sources, to provide culture and science-based environmental education (ahupua'a model) to elementary school students on O'ahu, Maui, Lāna'i and Moloka'i; • $31,125 to Ho'omau Ke Ola, Wai'anae Substance Abuse Treatment Center, matched by approximately $10,000 from other sources, to conduct a First Annual Makahiki Games Festival in leeward O'ahu for chents, staff and community; • $48,575 to KAHEA-The Hawaiian Environmental Allianee, matched by approximately $48,000, to support skill-building and training workshops to empower organizations and individuals concerned with protecting natural resources and Hawahan cultural rlghts; • $99,044 to Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park, matched by approximately $99,000 from other sources, for reconstruction of a wall at Kaloko Fishpond - a 16th-century loko kuapā Hawaiian fishpond 1 1 acres in size - and assistance in creating an active aquaculture operated by a nonprofh organization that produces 3,000-5,000 pounds of fish annually; • $49,800 to Maui Eeonomie Opportunity, Ine., matched by approximately $37,500 from other sources, to provide comprehensive tran-

sitional support services to offenders and exoffenders at Maui Community Correctional Center, whh focus on family reunification activities that incorporate Hawahan cultural practices and values to assist in successful re-entry; • $80,000 to the Oflice for Social Ministry, matched by approximately $387,000 from other sources, for a mohile dental elinie providing care to Hawaiians, low-ineome uninsured and Medicaid uninsured on Hawai'i island and to advocate systemic change to improve access to dental care; • A total of $504,190 to Partners In Development Foundation: a) $99,352 for Kōkua 'Ohana, matched by $524,694 from other sources, for increasing the number of licensed Native Hawaiian foster parents and to build support hui for foster families; b) $191,849 for the Baibala Hemolele Project, matched by approximately $190,000 from other sources, for producing a recording of the entire Hawaiian Bible, posting the recording on the Baibala Hemolele website, and conduct a series of workshops for training on the use of the audio recording; e) $212,989 for Tūtū and Me: Moloka'i traveling preschool program, matched by approximately equal amounts from other sources; • $99,925 to Turning Point For Families, matched by approximately $99,900 from other sources, for their domestic violence intervention program that uses Hawaiian beliefs, practices and values to address intimate partner violence among Native Hawaiians; • $90,000 to Wai'anae Coast Early Childhood Services, matched by approximately $45,000 from other sources, to provide support for its Pre-School Scholarship Program 2007; • $125,000 for year one with $125,000 for year two, upon meeting certain conditions, to the Windward Spouse Abuse Shelter, matched by approximately $160,000 for year one from other sources and expected matching funds for year two, to support emergency shelter services providing a safe haven for battered women as they work to rebuild their lives; • $58,000 to Aloha 'Āina Health Center, matched by equal support from other sources, to support development and implementation of an ahupua'a eunieulum on O'ahu; • $98,000 to The Bay Clinic, matched by approximately $143,000 from other sources, to support direct dental services and preven-tive-health education to Hawaiians through the Kea'au Family Health Center on Hawai'i Island; and • $ 153,264 to Tri-IsleResource Conservation and Development Council, matched by approximately $155,000 from other sources, for the Hālawa Valley Cooperative's restoration project to support cultural preservation in Hālawa Valley, Moloka'i. Grant awards made in October will be highlighted next month. 24/48. ^

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