OHA is holding meetings on the outer islands, part of which includes discussion of some of their ongoing grant projects. For more, check out the OHA release/newsletter blurb below: The Board of Trustees for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs traveled to Kaua‘i for the first in a series of five community meetings with Native Hawaiians [...]
Have a program that will raise the well-being of the Native Hawaiian community? The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is looking for you. Non-profit granting trends being what they are, OHA has decided to create a new focus in their community granting program from a focus on addressing “individual needs” to programs that will, “lead to [...]
When you picture special interest groups and government lobbyists, you probably imagine corporate fat cats hiring sleazy lawyers to get them favors and interests from legislators. (This also indicates that you’ve heard too many John Edwards speeches.) Putting aside whether the unfairness of this image (unfairness to the business owners, that is–I wouldn’t dream of [...]
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has just announced the award of $329,000 in “Community-Based Economic Development” grants to nine programs that will help make Native Hawaiians “economically successful and self-sufficient.” You know, when you read enough grant-type literature, that kind of phrasing really starts to drive you crazy. It seems like there are two kinds [...]
If you know your way around this site, you know that there are two ways of perusing the many, many grants we’ve recorded. Many. Many, many, many. It’s overwhelming actually. And overwhelming is kind of the point. No matter where you stand on the issue of Native Hawaiian sovereignty or the Akaka Bill, if you’ve [...]
Over at Hawaii Reporter, a new report has revealed that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has spent $3.44 million since 1999 on its (ultimately failed) lobbying efforts in support of the Akaka Bill. And this doesn’t include the approximately $2 million OHA spent to operate a Washington, DC office or any other expenses (such as [...]
Hawaii’s splendid isolation has contributed so much to the character of the islands. Our island paradise owes much to it, as does our culture of family and “aloha spirit.” On the other hand, those on the mainland have only the slightest acquaintance with the political and social issues we struggle with, and it’s easy for [...]
Conventional wisdom says that (despite the boasts of our newest Governor) with the new Republican Congress in place, the Akaka Bill is effectively dead for the time being. The theory is that the Bill never had much support among Republicans in Congress, and no Democrats will be willing to expend large amounts of political capital [...]
Lest it be said that all I do is criticize the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, I will direct your attention today to a thought-provoking study they’ve just released on Native Hawaiians in Hawaii’s criminal justice system. I won’t give it my unqualified seal of approval–after all, the term “disparate treatment” in the title implies a [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, there are Native Hawaiians who are opposed to the Akaka Bill. This is not such an incredible notion. After all, there’s no requirement that one must close one’s eyes to the problems in the Bill just because of one’s ethnic heritage. And it is equally obvious that OHA supports the Akaka [...]
