Preservation of land and water important to native Hawaiians is one of many types of projects cultural grants can fund.
Organizations wanting to preserve native Hawaiian culture or introduce tourists to a taste of it beyond hotel and resort luaus can access thousands of dollars in grants to fund their projects. State and federal agencies and private organizations are all sources that organizations can tap as funding sources for artistic, musical, historical or any number of other cultural projects.
Foundation on Culture and the Arts
The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts provide several grants to perpetuate Hawaiian culture. The foundation offer biennium grants which fund projects that preserve the state's culture, history, arts and humanities. The foundation gave out 115 grants totaling more than $1.5 million in 2010. The grants cover a two-year period. The foundation says it considers all grant applications. The state of Hawaii and the National Endowment of the Arts fund the foundation.
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
No. 1 Capitol District Building
250 S. Hotel St., 2nd Floor
Honolulu, HI 96813
808-586-0300
www.hawaii.gov/sfca
Park Service Tribal Heritage
The National Park Service offers Tribal Heritage Grants. The National Preservation Act of 1966 has allowed the federal park agency to provide more than $17 million in grants since 1990 to native Hawaiian, as well as Native American and Alaskan, preservation projects. The funding goes to projects that intend to preserve languages, histories, sacred and historic places and plant and animal species tribes consider important to their histories. The grant program has funded more than 460 projects.
Historic Preservation Grants
National Park Service
1201 I St., NW (2256)
Washington, DC 20005
202-354-2020
www.nps.gov/history/hps/hpg/index.htm
Office of Hawaiian Affairs
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs gave out $375,000 in 2010 to three organizations linking Hawaiian culture from precolonial to modern times. Money went to a museum exhibit of historical native Hawaiian images, a project restoring a tomb for a member of Hawaiian royalty and a conference for native Hawaiian musical and recording entrepreneurs.
Office of Hawaiian Affairsrn
Honolulu Office
711 Kapi'olani Blvd., Ste. 500
Honolulu, HI 96813
808-594-1835
www.oha.org
Hawaii Tourism Authority
The Hawaii Tourism Authority, through its Kūkulu Ola HTA Living Hawaiian Culture Program, awards grants to many projects that enhance or restore Hawaiian culture. In 2008, the tourism authority received more than $4 million in grant requests. A few cultural projects the grants funded were a museum's Hawaiian garden exhibit, an outreach program for lauhala weavers to display their skills to the public and an education project about the production of a native bark cloth and its ties to native traditions and values.
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement
1050 Queen St., Suite 200
Honolulu, HI 96814
808-596-8155
www.livinghawaiianculture.org
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