Governor Josh Green, M.D. | DHHL Media Release: DHHL Community Development Program Awards Twenty-Three Grants

(Kapolei, Oʻahu) – The Division of Hawaiian House Lands (DHHL) has declared the awarding of 23 grants to 14 recipients who will each and every obtain a portion of $8,500,000 of funding as aspect of the Advancement Grants Software of DHHL’s Indigenous Hawaiian Growth Method System (NHDPP).

In this spherical of grants, DHHL solicited proposals for advancements to present services on Hawaiian Property Lands, present packages and products and services in present homesteads, project implementation, and community capability creating

Informational conferences have been held in August 2022 with the ultimate grant software deadline on Oct 6, 2022. A whole of 32 programs ended up been given.

The intent of the NHDPP is to improve the normal welfare and circumstances of native Hawaiians by way of training, financial, political, social, cultural, and other programs. The NHDPP enables the Office to put into practice personal and local community development applications and products and services.

For the Fiscal Yr 2023, the Hawaiʻi State Legislature allocated $10 million in Point out Basic Funds to the NHDPP, of which $7.5 million was designated by the Hawaiian Homes Fee (HHC) to the Group Improvement Grants Application. The other $2.5 million was established aside for repair service and upkeep tasks on Hawaiian Dwelling Lands.

In addition to the Legislature funding, HHC permitted a $1 million allocation from the Native Hawaiian Rehabilitation Fund (NHRF) at its June 2022 regular assembly as an extra funding source for the 2022 DHHL Neighborhood Development Grants plan.

Picked grant proposals, award recipients, and challenge summaries can be viewed under.

Grant for advancements to existing facilities on Hawaiian Residence Lands:

• $1,000,000 – Ka Waihona O Ka Na‘auao, General public Constitution University for renovations to the college kitchen and cafeteria. The facility is positioned makai of the Nanakuli homestead, on Hawaiian Property Lands, and was developed in 1933.
• $1,000,000 – Moloka‘i Homestead Farmers Alliance, dba Moloka‘i Homestead Farmers Alliance, for improvements to Lanikeha Middle, developed in 2000. Funds will be applied to carry on renovations, including restroom and sewer enhancements. The is an current facility positioned in Ho‘olehua on Hawaiian Household Lands.
• $1,000,000 – Princess Kahanu Estates Association, dba Princess Kahanu Estates Affiliation (PKE), for improvements to the neighborhood heart and boat yard, crafted-in 1995. Cash will be employed for the planning, style and design, and building of a accredited kitchen found on a part of the boat lawn. This is an existing facility found in just the PKE homestead, on Hawaiian House Lands.
• $1,000,000 – Waiohuli Hawaiian Homesteaders Affiliation, Inc., dba Waiohuli Hawaiian Homestead Association, Inc. (WHHA) for advancements to the WHHA community heart – He Piko No Waiohuli, created-in 2016. Cash will be used to construct an enclosed enhancement for the current neighborhood kitchen and for protection lights in parking places. This is an existing facility situated in the Waiohuli homestead, on Hawaiian Property Lands.
• $980,000 – Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Neighborhood Affiliation, dba Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Group Association, for advancements to the Nānākuli Village Center, crafted in 2019. Funds will be employed for the interior construct-out of a few units in the inline retail room to really encourage nearby and Indigenous Hawaiian-owned companies to lease. This is an current facility located on Hawaiian Dwelling Lands.
• $400,000 – Kalamaula Homesteaders Association, dba Kalamaula Homesteaders Association, for advancements to Kiowea Park, crafted in the 1990s. The proposed job is to tackle neighborhood basic safety concerns. Funds will be utilized for improvements to the parking lot to increase protection and accessibility for all those who use the park, in particular Kupuna and those bodily challenged. This is an current facility located on Hawaiian Household Lands.

Grant for current packages and companies in current Homesteads:

• $500,000 – Habitat for Humanity Worldwide, dba Habitat for Humanity Maui, Inc. to grow and aid its 20-calendar year-aged residence mend program to exclusively serve lessees. Resources will be utilized for property basic safety repairs for economically-deprived lessees in the County of Maui – islands of Maui, Lāna‘i, and Moloka‘i.
• $500,000 – Ke Kula Nui ‘o Waimānalo, dba Ke Kula Nui O Waimanalo (KKNOW) to increase and aid its 13-year-outdated Mini Ahupua‘a for Way of living and Mea‘ai by means of Aquaponics (MALAMA) plan. Money will be used to extend MALAMA to lessees in Kona and the island of Moloka‘i in response to requests from people homestead parts. Resources will also be utilised to assistance lessees to retain their current aquaponics programs in Waimānalo, Maui, and East Hawai‘i homesteads. As element of MALAMA, KKNOW will go on to develop homestead potential to come to be trainers and community methods inside of their very own homesteads.
• $447,344 – Kula No Na Po‘e Hawai‘i to develop and help its two-year-outdated Ho‘okele Software to lessees in the Papakōlea area. Money will be made use of to guidance 60 beneficiaries with housing placement, carry out 15 workshops and help lessees to entire programs for extra wrap-close to expert services and systems.
• $400,000 – Moloka‘i Homestead Farmers Alliance, dba Moloka‘i Homestead Farmers Alliance to support its four-year-outdated COVID Relief program. Money will be made use of to distribute food items, produce, hot foods, dwelling care packages, and certificates for drugstore/prescription buys for lessees island-wide.
• $331,100 – Aina Alliance for its Makai Administration task. Started in 2021, the undertaking is for land restoration and community enrichment by means of aina-dependent discovering and perpetuating cultural principles in the Anahola homestead. Resources will be applied to support ongoing endeavours to very clear and retain in excess of 400 acres of Hawaiian Dwelling Lands to handle issues of homelessness, trash dumping, and fireplace dangers. This exertion also will provide as a safe, outside neighborhood studying atmosphere.
• $170,000 – Waiohuli Hawaiian Homesteaders Affiliation, Inc., dba Waiohuli Hawaiian Homesteaders Association, Inc. for its five-calendar year-outdated Waiohuli Economic Growth Alternatives Software (WE-DO). This is a teaching and mentoring program for lessees in Waiohuli and Kēōkea homesteads to establish potential connected to typical construction and supportive services for the duration of the growth method of a learn-prepared neighborhood.

Grant for Job Implementation:

• $100,000 – Ho‘opili Farmers Association for a mulching system to aid lessees with gardening and farming. The application includes schooling lessees in making use of mulch and inputs applying Korean pure farming approaches and providing a delivery company to lessees who do not have obtain to mulch. HFA intends to use a peer-to-peer technique, where by beneficiaries are conducting the education for fellow beneficiaries. Proposed system shipping areas are Ho‘olehua, Kalamaula, Kamiloloa, A person Alii, and Kapaakea homesteads.
• $100,000 – Kalamaula Homesteaders Affiliation, dba Kalamaula Homesteaders Affiliation to handle safety fears in Kalamaula homestead. Secondly, resources will be utilised to acquire batteries for the photograph-voltaic energy program for the new Kiowea Park Pavilion.
• $100,000 – Kanehili Group Affiliation, dba c/o Hawaiiana Management Co., Ltd. for the Kapolei Regional Program Task: Protect and Acquire Parks to Services the Homestead Group. Cash will be utilized to keep on the organizing period and commence the structure of the Kānehili park (Period 2). The park is supposed to provide beneficiaries and the general general public.
• $100,000 – Ka ‘Ohana O Kahikinui, Inc. (KOOK) for the Kahikinui Regional Strategy Project: Pūnāwai Task and Drinking water Infrastructure Enhancements. The proposed undertaking is an progressive fog drip water selection and distribution procedure to source non-potable water for lessees in Kahikinui homestead. Money will be utilised for protecting fencing for the system and to nutritional supplement a current DHHL grant to KOOK for project value overruns.
• $100,000 – ‘O Maku‘u Ke Kahua Neighborhood Center, dba Maku‘u Farmers Market place for scheduling and building of a new neighborhood centre situated in the Maku‘u homestead. Money will be employed for updating options, acquiring permits, and setting up development.
• $100,000 – Princess Kahanu Estates Association, dba Princess Kahanu Estates Association to set up a group-dependent landscaping service to manage homestead typical areas.
• $100,000 – Waiohuli Hawaiian Homesteaders Association, Inc., dba Waiohuli Hawaiian Homesteaders Affiliation, Inc. (WHHA) to finish organizing and due diligence (HRS Chapter 343 Environmental and 6E compliance) for roughly 150 acres of Hawaiian Household Lands. WHHA intends to use the land to serve as the site to apply the Waioihuli Financial Development Opportunities (WE DO) system.

Grant for Group Potential Constructing:

• $15,000 – Ho‘opili Farmers Affiliation for board schooling, membership outreach, strategic setting up, and finishing a small business system.
• $15,000 – ‘O Maku‘u Ke Kahua Local community Center, dba Maku‘u Farmers Marketplace for strategic setting up, establishing collateral supplies for future grant creating, and creating a grants administration process.
• $15,000 – Princess Kahanu Estates Association, dba Princess Kahanu Estates Affiliation (PKEA), for membership outreach and to perpetuate cultural methods. Cash will be employed to broaden PKEA’s Kanikapila periods by incorporating ukulele courses and a Hula Halau for keiki.
• $15,000 – Waiohuli Hawaiian Homesteaders Affiliation, Inc., dba Waiohuli Hawaiian Homesteaders Association, Inc. to secure technological help for board governance, management succession, software advancement, advertising, and local community outreach.

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About the Department of Hawaiian Residence Lands:

The Division of Hawaiian Home Lands carries out Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole’s vision of rehabilitating native Hawaiians by returning them to the land. Set up by U.S. Congress in 1921, with the passage of the Hawaiian Residences Commission Act, the Hawaiian homesteading program operate by DHHL involves management of above 200,000 acres of land statewide with the certain objective of establishing and offering homesteading.

Media Make contact with:

Cedric Duarte

Information and facts and Neighborhood Relations Officer
Office of Hawaiian Property Lands
(808) 620-9591

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