Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 12, 1 December 2006 — OHA supports Molokaʻi nonprofits [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OHA supports Molokaʻi nonprofits

Aloha kākou! When the OHA Board held its annual Moloka'i eommunity meeting in September, several large grant award recipients took the opportunity to showcase their projects and provide the conununity with information on how they support the island. The meeting schedule only allowed for five presentations, but additional charts and visual displays provided a more extensive list of Moloka'i grant recipients. While we tried to include and publicize all Moloka'i grant recipients in our charts, they too, did not adequately disclose the numerous projects OHA has supported over the past three years. Below we've included a more comprehensive list of Moloka'i grant projects that were awarded from fiscal years 2003 through 2006: • $800,000 (2006) to the Moloka'i General Hospital for costs relating to facility upgrades; • $330,000 (2006) to the Kualapu'u Puhlie Conversion Charter School, whieh was part of a larger initiative that focused on supporting charter schools that face severe financial crisis; • $212,989 (2006) to the Tūtū & Me traveling preschool program for Moloka'i pōki'i; • $169,622 (2006) to Alu Like's Ka Hua Ola Hou program for a youth substance abuse prevention and early intervention initiative located in Māhana; • $153,264 (2006) to the Hālawa Valley Cooperative for a project to restore taro fields on Moloka'i's east end; • $115,000 (2003) to the Moloka'i Livestock Cooperative to support the planning and construction of a slaughterhouse in Ho 'olehua; • $109,464 (2005) to the Hui Mālama o Mo'omomi program for the Mo'omomi 'Ahupua'a Management project. • $100,000 (2005) to the Pāpōhaku Dune Cultural and Natural Resource Preservation Project for a study and published report on the precious intact dune system; • $90,986 (2005) to the Aka'ula School

for capacity-building support and edueahonal related costs of the independent school; • $49,981 (2004) to the Akakū: Maui Community Television - Moloka'i to strengthen Moloka'i's Hawaiian eommunity by expanding media access services through the Moloka'i Media Center; • $75,000 (2005) to Akakū: Maui Conununity Television - Moloka'i for a Moloka'i Civic Engagement Initiative; • $97,040 (2005) to Hui o Kuapā to provide a site for a "hands-on, classroom without walls" learning experience using the ahupua'a and fishpond on Moloka'i's east end; • $65,820 (2004) to the Kalaupapa Dialysis Program for the purchase and installation of two dialysis machines for onsite treatment for Hansen's disease patients in Kalaupapa. This project was in conjunction with the State Department of Heahh and St. Francis Renal Center; • $50,000 (2005) to Habitat for Humanity for the construction of two homes on Moloka'i; • $50,000 (2004) to Hālau o Kawānanakoa for the rehabilitation of Kalaniana'ole Hall in Kalama'ula; • $44,406 (2004) to Maui AIDS Foundation for HIV/AIDS care and prevention services for Hāna and Moloka'i; • $25,000 (2005) to Special 01ympics Hawai'i for Special 01ympics competitions and outreach for athletes on Moloka'i and Lāna'i; • $24,900 (2005) to Nā Pu'uwai Native Hawaiian Heahh Care for Ka 'Ohana o Kalaupapa to support its organizational capacity building; and, • $24,780 (2005) to Friends of Moloka'i High and Intermediate for O Hina i ka Mālama for educational travel to New Zealand in 2006. A total of $2,579,282 was awarded to Moloka'i projects over the three-year period. The most exciting and fulfilling part of OHA's grants process is seeing eonnnu-nity-based organizations implement projects that directly support the Moloka'i community. OHA grant recipients are required to be a nonprofit organization, and all grants, including those listed above, are required to have matching funds from other organizations. For more information on OHA's Grants Program, please eall 594-1888. ^

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