Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 33, Number 12, 1 December 2016 — 2016 GRANTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

2016 GRANTS

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs' Grants and Sponsorships programs are a cornerstone of the agency's community giving. In FY 2016, OHA awarded S10.8 million to programs across the state that are diverse asthe community needs they serve. The grants total includes money from OHA's core operating budget combined with other funding sources.

CULTURE $864,800 PROGRAMMATIC GRANTS Edith Kanaka'ole Foundation (Year 1 of 2) - $150,000 The purpose of this project is to rebuild and restore the hula heiau at īmakakoloa, Kā'u along with the ritual dances, chants, and vocabulary necessary for this work so that hula practitioners and their families from 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. Hawai'i Hui Mālama Ola Nā 'Ōiwi (Year 1 of 2) - $64,343 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 practical application of La'au Lapa'au, Lomilomi Ha Ha, La'au Kahea, and Ho'oponopono. Hawai'i Kā nehūnāmoku Voyaging Academy (Year 1 of 2) - $150,000 The purpose of this project is to provide opportunities to O'ahu 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. O'ahu Kohe Malamalamao Kanaloa - Protect Kaho'olawe Fund (Year 1 of 2) - $67,400 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 & Kaua'i by providing them the opportunity to connect with, honor and care for the 'āina & cultural sites; revitalize cultural relationships; & leam cultural practices & protocols through Kaho'olawe. StQtewiāe Kula No Na Po'e Hawai'i (Year 1 of 2) - $20,000 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. O 'ahu PA'I Foundation (Year 1 of 2) - $48,257 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. Statewide

The Estria Foundation - $226,500 Mele Murals project Statewide 'AHAHUI EVENT GRANTS 'Aha Pūnana Leo. ine. - $7,000 Pūlama Mauli Ola. Hawai'i 'Ahahui Kīwila Hawai'i 0 Mo'ikeha - $5,000 Ka Moku O Manokalanipō Pa'ani Makahiki. Kaua'i East Maui Taro Festival - $7,000 24th Annual East Maui Taro Festival. Maui Friends of the Future - $5,000 Waipi'o Kalo Festival. Hawai'i Hawai'i Book & Music Festival - $7,000 Alana Hawaiian Culture Program at the 2016 Hawai'i Book & Music Festival. O 'ahu Hawaiian Canoe Racinq Association - $8,000 2015 HCRA State Championship Canoe Regatta. Hawai'i Hawaiian Kamali'i, ine. - $6,000 The Pailolo Challenge. Moioka'i lnstitute for Native Pacific Education and Culture - $6,500 Ho'i I Ke Ēwe 'Āina Kūpuna. Hawai'i Ka Moloka'i Makahiki - $7,000 Ka Moloka'i Makahiki 2016. Moioka'i Kai Loa. ine. - $7,000 Makahiki Kuilima 2016. O'ahu Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society, ine. - $5,000 Malia Craver Hula Kahiko Competition. O'ahu Maui Historical Society - $7,000 Lei Day Heritage Festival 2016. Maui Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce - $8,000 Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce Presents 9th Annual Business Fest. Maui Moanalua Gardens Foundation - $10,000 Moanalua. He Wahi Pana. The 38th Annual Prince Lot Hula Festival. O'ahu Moana's Hula Halau - $6,000 Festivals of Aloha - Maui Nui Style: "Ola ke kaiaulu i ke aloha o loko". Moloka'i Nā Wahine 0 Ke Kai - $6,000 Nā Wahine O Ke Kai Women's Annual Moloka'ito O'ahu Canoe Race. Moioka 'i, O 'ahu Na'alehu Theatre - $6,000 9th Annual Gabby Pahinui Waimānalo Kanikapila O'ahu

North Kohala Community Resource Center - $6,000 North Kohala Community Reunion 2015. Hawai'i Pu'uhonua Society - $5,000 CONTACT 2016 art exhibit. O'ahu Uhane Pohaku Na Moku 0 Hawaii. ine. - $2,300 Ho'okupu Hula No Ka'u Cultural Festival. Hawai'i University of Hawai'i - Leeward Community College - $6,500 Huli Aku. Huli Mai: Contemproray Traditional Practices. O'ahu Young Women's Christian Association of Oahu - $5,000 Kokokahi Community Fair. O'ahu EDUCATION $2,863,000 PROGRAMMATIC GRANTS After-School All-Stars Hawaii (Year 1 of 2) - $236,975 These out-of-school programs in two O'ahu (Nānākuli and Wai'anae) and three Hawai'i island (Ka'ū, Kea'au, and Pāhoa)Title 1 middle and intermediate schools operate at school sites to provide comprehensive after-school programs to improve proficiency in Reading and Math, as evidenced by Hawai'i State Assessment (HSA) test scores. This program provides an alternative to risky after-school activities, offers fun, social learning activities, and improves students' ability to advance to the next grade level. Hawai'i; O'ahu Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui, ine. (Year 1 of 2) - $184,000 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 eompleīe homework assignments, with the goal of improving Native Hawaiian student proficiency in Reading and Math so that they ean increase standardized test scores. Maui Educational Services Hawaii Foundation (Year 1 of 2) - $89,030 The 'Imi 'Ike Leaming Centers target at-risk Native Hawaiians, currently or formerly in foster, kith, kin care, in grades 4 to 12 by engaging them in academic and socio-emotional programs, differentiated direct instruction and Hawaiian culture-based pedagogy, and meeting their muhiple needs so they ean meet or exceed standard-based testings in reading and math. O 'ahu Hui Malama Learning Center (Year 1 of 2) - $219,995 Hui Malama Leaming Center addresses the complex educational and social needs of at-risk youth (those with emoīional, cognitive, social, physical or behavioral issues, and laek fundamental literacy skills) aged 11-24 by providing holistic and integrated educational services to improve reading and math proficiency and increase standardized test scores. Maui Chaminade University of Honolulu (Year 4 of 4) - $33,000 To support scholarships for Native Hawaiian nursing students. O'ahu HawaiM Community Foundation - $250,000 To support the OHA Higher Education Scholarships program. Statewide Kanu 0 Ka 'Āina Learning 'Ohana - $1,500,000 To support Hawaiian-focused charter schools. Statewide Univeristy of HawaiM Foundation (Year 2 of 3) - $100,000 To support the Senator Daniel Akaka Scholarship Endowment. Statewide University of HawaiM - Office of Research Services (Year 1 of 2) - $250,000 To support the OHA Higher Education Scholarships program through the Native Hawaiian Science and Engineering Mentorship Program. Statewide

'AHAHUI EVENT GRANTS [NONE] GOVERNANCE $0 PROGRAMMATIC GRANTS [NONE] 'AHAHUI EVENT GRANTS [NONE] HEALTH $1,531,224 PROGRAMMATIC GRANTS Boys & Girls Club of the Biq lsland (Year 1 of 2) - $115,000 The Hua Ola Project will strengthen heahh for Native Hawaiian and other Club members by skillfully instilling healthy lifelong fitness and diet habits in the youth of 3 Boys & Girls Club of the Big Island communities through culturally responsive minds- and bodies-involved experiential healthy lifestyles education delivered by caring Club mentors. Hawai'i I Ola Lāhui, lnc. (Year 1 of 2) - $180,000 Kūlana Hawai'i project will provide comprehensive, culturally-minded weight and chronic disease management ser\/ices to Native Hawaiian adults and their families to increase their engagement in healthy lifestyle behaviors such as dietaiy habits, physical activity, medication adherence, stress management, and reduce high risk behaviors such as smoking. O'ahu Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services (Year 1 of 2) - $143,000 The Ehuola 'Ohana Healīh Project will foster healīh from the first breath through the last, preventing chronic disease through a eoneepīual framework of nā'au, 'āina and kai, kanaka, mauli and ola. Native Hawaiian keiki, mākua, wahine hāpai and their kane will leam cultural practices supporting nutrition and birthing, reclaiming a legacy of heahh. O 'ahu Kualapu'u Puhlie Conversion Charter School (Year 1 of 2) - $135,256 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 heahh choices through a school-based initiative that integrates physical activity, heahh and nutrition education, and family engagement whh in-school student support and elinieal heahh services. Moioka 'i Salvation Army-Family Treatment Services (Year 1 of 2) - $112,000 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 learning to live a drug free lifestyle and to prevent feeding practices that could result in obesity in their children. O'ahu The Queen's Medical Center (Year 1 of 2) - $190,000 The Hana Ola Project will implemenī a culturally relevant, community-based program based on heahh and nutrition education, and physical activity to reduce the incidence and severity of obesity among Native Hawaiians, in order to improve their o verall wellbeing, and reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors. Maui Kaua'i Food Bank, ine. - $38,000 To implemenī the "Backpack Program" at Hawaiian

focused charter schools on Kaua'i. Kaua'i Lunalilo Home - $597,468 To eompleīe building and infrastmcture repairs to the existing Lunalilo Home facilites to maintain an environment of safety and comfort for residents. O'ahu 'AHAHUI EVENT GRANTS Kula no na Po'e Hawai'i - $7,000 Ho'okahi Palekana — Papakolea 'Ohana Heahh Fair 2016. O'ahu Maui Family Support Services, ine. - $6,500 Na Makua Kane: Celebration of Fathers. Maui YMCA of Honolulu - $7,000 YMCA Healthy Kids Day - E Ola Na Keiki. O'ahu HOUSING $3,456,124 PROGRAMMATIC GRANTS Hawaiian Community Assets (Year 1 of 2) - $265,059 Increasing eeonomie self-sufficiency of Native Hawaiians through stable housing will provide financial literacy education, housing couseling, and asset building products to 500 low-ineome Native Hawaiians to rent or own homes. Statewide Effective Planninq and lnnovative Communication ine. (DBA EPIC Ohana) (Year 1 of 2) - $16,675 Hawai'i Youth Opportunities Initiative Opportunity Passport provides financial literacy training and matching funds for security deposit/first month's rent for young people through age 25 who were in foster care. Statewide Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (Year 1 of 2) - $174,390 Hawai'i Individual Development Account will provide financial education, counseling, and match savings grants up to $5,000 to eligible Native Hawaiian first-time home buyers in Hawai'i to support 40 new homeowners by addressing barriers to homeownership. Statewide Department of Hawaiian Home Lands - $3,000,000 To cover debt service on bonds issued by DHHL that will be used to establish infrastructure support for Native Hawaiian affordable housing opportunities. Statewide 'AHAHUI EVENT GRANTS [NONE] INCOME $674,550 PROGRAMMATIC GRANTS Parents and Children Toqether (Year 1 of 2) - $261,500 Ready to Work and Career Support Ser\/ices will increase the incomes of Native Hawaiians by delivering services that promote employability and job retention including job preparation training, vocational and 2-year degree scholarships, and high school equivalancy preparation. O 'ahu Goodwill lndustries of Hawai'i, ine. (Year 1 of 2) - $221,550 Employment Core and Career Support Services for Native Hawaiians will improve their ability to obtain higher-wage employment, thereby increasing their eeonomie self-sufficiency. Hawai'i University of Hawai'i on behalf of Maui Colleqe (Year 1 of 2) - $175,000 CareerLink will provide support services, financial literacy and employment readiness workshops, GED

preparation, scholarships, and employment opportunities to Native Hawaiians in Maui County. Maui 'AHAHUI EVENT GRANTS Hawai'i Construction Career Days - $10,000 Big Island Consīruction Career Day. Hawai'i Hawaii First Community Ventures - $6,500 'Ohana First at Hawai'i First. Hawai'i LAND $1,088,200 PROGRAMMATIC GRANTS Ka Honua Momona lnternational (Year 1 of 2) - $100,000 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 aneienī Hawaiian fishponds. Moloka'i Kāko'o 'Ōiwi (Year 1 of 2) - $121,700 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 ecological and food-producing systems in our ahupua'a for the benefit of Hawaiians and other community members on O'ahu. O'ahu Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services (Year 1 of 2) - $100,000 The purpose of this project is to restore the heahh of the Kalihi 'ahupua'a by promoting cultural practices for kama'āina (residents) and malihini (visitors) to ultimately improve the healīh of the Māluawai watershed thereby ensuring its longterm sustainability. O 'ahu Kua'āina Ulu 'Auamo (Year 1 of 2) - $100,000 KUA will build and strengthen at least 3 "communities of practice" for 'āina-based food production, providing targeted, coordinated (1) facilitation, (2) īeehnieal assistance/training, and (3) communications that will join together the efforts of at least 30 rural Hawaiian communities to increase community-based, Hawaiiancentered food production. Statewide Ma Ka Hana Ka 'lke (Year 1 of 2) - $78,300 The purpose of Māhele 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 heahh of this kīpuka, and enhanee loeal stewardship of land-based cultural resources. Maui Hawai'i Community Foundation (Years 1 & 2 of 3) - $50,000 To support the Hawai'i Environmental Funders Group (EFG). Statewide Kumano I Ke Ala 0 Makaweli - $13,500 To support the Aloha 'Āina After-School Program as part of the State's R.E.A.C.H. initiative. Kaua'i The Trust for Public Land - $500,000 To support the acquisition of the Kuamo'o battlefield and burial grounds of Kona. Hawai'i 'AHAHUI EVENT GRANTS Kailapa Community Association - $8,000 Nā Kilo 'Āina Camp Kawaihae. Hawai'i Nā Mamo o Mū'olea - $9,700 7th Annual Hāna Limu Festival. Maui North Shore Community Lanel Trust - $7,000 3rd Annual North Shore Food Summit. O 'ahu

Culture $864,800 Education $2,863,000 Governance $0 Health $1,531,224 Housinq $3,456,124 ineome $674,550 Land $1,088,200 Grants total $10,477,898