�FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Contact: Kenneth J. Wolfe
(202) 401-9215
Administration for Children and Families Awards More than $5 Million to
Hawaii and Native Pacific Basin Communities
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) today announced the award of up to $5.3 million in grants to seven Native organizations in Hawaii, American Samoa, and Guam for social and economic development strategies and healthy marriage.
The grant awards were announced today by Quanah Crossland Stamps, Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) in Hawaii after visiting eight ANA projects in Ohau, Molokai, Maui and Guam to view first-hand ongoing project activities and meet with community leaders.
“These grant awards support the Bush Administration’s goal of community self-sufficiency for Native communities throughout the Pacific region,” Commissioner Stamps said. “Our commitment to providing project support at the community level will make a positive impact on the lives of Native children, youth and families.”
Currently, ANA has 11 grant projects in the Pacific Basin totaling $8.7 million for social and economic development strategies and healthy marriage. Today’s $5.3 million award announcement brings the total ANA funding amount for Pacific projects to $14 million.
The grants announced today are as follows:
Social and Economic Development Strategies Grants
- $660,444 for three years to the Historic Inalahan Foundation, Inc. to provide social activities including community service and training for youth that will increase their cultural knowledge and skills.
- $959,710 for three years to Intersections, Inc. to provide training to 50 youth in filmmaking, leadership and finance.
- $845,769 for three years to the Keomailani Hanapi Foundation to develop an art education training program for emerging and existing artists.
- $577,093 for three years to the Nanakuli Housing Corporation to design affordable modular housing for homestead residents.
- $1,152,476 for three years to the Wai’anae Community Re-Development Corporation to provide a multi-purpose venue for food production that will increase the commercial efforts of organic farms.
- $709,260 for three years to the Waipa Foundation to provide and oversee a fully equipped and certified commercial kitchen facility that will provide farmers, families and community members with space to process crops and develop small businesses.
- $385,444 for two years to the Pasifika Foundation Hawaii, Inc. to provide Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) communities’ access to, participation in and control of a portion of Hawaii’s leading economic sector, the tourism industry.
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For more information on the Administration for Native Americans, visit: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ana/.
Note: All ACF news releases, fact sheets and other materials are available at www.acf.hhs.gov/opa/index.html.