#Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Candidate nomination and filing services begin Feb. 1, 2024 on Maui, according to an announcement issued by the Elections Division of the Office of the County Clerk. The deadline to file nomination papers is June 4, 2024, at 4:30 p.m.

Hawaiian Historical Society has received $25,000 from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs as part of the Kākoʻo Grant Program awards. This award is intended to strengthen community organizations, like HHS, in order to strategically plan for the future of better serving its Native Hawaiian communities.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs awarded the nonprofit Homestead Community Development Corporation $500,000 over two years for its Residential Employment Living Improvement program.

Organization leaders say the grant will play a pivotal role in fortifying connections within the Native Hawaiian community and aligns with OHA’s commitment to strategic directions that include quality housing, educational pathways, economic stability and health outcomes.

The Homestead Community Development Corporation nonprofit received a funding award from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Kakoʻo Community Grant Program.  HCDC is the nonprofit arm of several Homestead Beneficiary Associations, including the Sovereign Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations.  

Decades of conservation work led by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and American Bird Conservancy has paid off for Hawaiʻi’s Millerbird, now downlisted from critically endangered to endangered status.

Reelitz, who began her new role on Dec. 1, will lead OHA’s Advocacy Division and oversee mission aligned public policy development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as OHAʻs current co-trustee role with the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

The Moaʻe Molokaʻi Digitization Project is the recipient of a grant award totaling $100,000 from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The Moʻomeheu Program Grant will support the Native Hawaiian community by improving the preservation of and access to ʻike Molokaʻi.

This series of events includes the annual Hāna Community Winter Show which features community groups and Hāna School class performances; hosting a holiday photo booth for free professional family portraits; and hosting a holiday craft booth at the Hāna Farmer’s Market.

Stacy Kealohalani Ferreira has been appointed as the new chief executive officer (Ka Pouhana) of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs following the departure of Dr. Sylvia Hussey in July.

Recent US Census data reveals that the continental US now houses more Native Hawaiians than the state of Hawaiʻi, confirming prior demographic predictions.

The Nāʻiwa Homesteaders Program will host a two-day workshop for Molokaʻi’s Nā‘iwa Homesteaders Community on Thur., Sept. 28, and Fri., Sept. 29, 2023, starting at 5 p.m. HST. The workshop will take place at Kulana ʻŌiwi, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs / Department of Hawaiian Homelands Conference Room on Molokaʻi.

In an effort to support Native Hawaiian families impacted by the 2023 Maui wildfires, the trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs have approved $5 million to aid in disaster recovery.

Hawaiian Community Assets extends a huge mahalo to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for recognizing the organization with a $1.5 million grant to increase access to services, grants, loans, and housing opportunities for Native Hawaiians looking to rent or own homes.

The coordinated donation management center will receive, sort and inventory donations collected for Maui residents impacted by the wildfires and store them until they are ready to be transported and received on Maui.

Today, the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement has opened the Maui Relief Storage Facility, a coordinated donation management center on Oʻahu to receive, sort and inventory donations collected for Maui residents impacted by the wildfires and store them until they are ready to be transported and received on Maui.

During a three-day site visit, members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee were met by state officials and community members who delivered presentations on their plans for a range of both Governor’s and Senate priorities, including: economic and workforce development, investments in infrastructure, and the coalescing of a food innovation network. The group also discussed the future of Kahoʻolawe and Kalaupapa.

Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke Building Program received a grant award totaling $300,000 that will support the Native Hawaiian community through the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.  Program representatives say the grant will help to reinforce and strengthen Native Hawaiians ‘ohana (family), moʻomeheu (culture), and ʻāina (land and water) while also providing support to increase Economic Stability. Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke will use the funds over the next two […]

a $300,000 economic stability grant was awarded to Ma Ka Hana ‘Ike Building Program in Hāna, Maui, to provide job readiness training for students in vocational trades. A $10,000 ʻAhahui event grant was awarded to Hāna Arts to help support the Hāna Farmers Market.  

Independent Hawaiian culture and language immersion school Ke Kula ʻO Piʻilani today announced a grant award totaling $77,700 that will support the Native Hawaiian community through the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Community Research Grant.