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D24AS00098: Kapapahuliau Native Hawaiian Climate Resilience Program

Closed Closed February 29, 2024 Opportunity D24AS00098 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of Interior Business Center notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$5.0 million
• Award floor$100,000
• Total funding$20.0 million
• Expected awards20
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

For this financial assistance opportunity, applicants for all Financial Assistance Categories of Kiakahi, Auwaa, and Hookele must meet the following definition of, and criteria for, a Native Hawaiian Organization. Native Hawaiian Organization or NHO means a non-profit organization (A) that principally serves or benefits the Native Hawaiian Community; (B) that is composed primarily of Native Hawaiians, who also control or serve in substantive leadership and decision-making roles; and (C) that has demonstrated expertise in Native Hawaiian heritage, economic development, health and well-being, self-governance, or natural and cultural resources management. Native Hawaiian Community means the distinct Native Hawaiian indigenous political community that Congress, exercising its plenary power over Native American affairs, has recognized and with which Congress has implemented a special political and trust relationship. Native Hawaiian means any individual who is a descendant of the aboriginal people who, prior to 1778, occupied and exercised sovereignty in the area that now constitutes the State of Hawaii. All applicants are required to include in their application submission, per Section D of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), an attestation or certification signed by a duly authorized NHO representative (such as the Executive Director, CEO, or Board of Directors acknowledging that the NHO meets the definition and criteria of an NHO specified above. For Category 2 Auwaa and Category 3 Hookele awardees, all partners NHOs and subawardees, respectively must indicate and include such an attestation. Registration or placement on the List of NHOs maintained by ONHR is not a pre-requisite or requirement for submitting an application, nor does it confer eligibility as an NHO in lieu of the attestation or certification per Section D of the NOFO. Please Note: Omitted Hawaiian Language diacriticals because of limitations of the grants.gov software.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Kapapahuliau Grant Program awards averaged $1.2 million; this notice allows up to $5.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

Please download the full announcement, including instructions, in the Related Documents Tab above. To download the application forms required by this Notice of Funding Opportunity, please go to the Application Tab above.

Category: Environment, Natural Resources.

Applying now

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