Partial list of Grants funded while at the County Office of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Partial list of Grants funded while at the County Office of Economic Development: Over $10M in grants every year: o South Maui Sustainability Grow Some Good o Food Technology Center o Maui Visitors Bureau o Renewable Energy

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 Partial list of Grants funded while at the County Office of

Economic Development:

 Over $10M in grants every year:

  • South Maui Sustainability – Grow Some Good
  • Food Technology Center
  • Maui Visitors Bureau
  • Renewable Energy Programs
  • Small Business
  • Maui Invasive Species
  • Business Research Library
  • Nursing Programs
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Know your audience Listen to the conversation Understand what the grant is asking Tell a good story Start early Write, revise and edit Ask for input

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 Public Agency or private foundation?  Where are they located?  Mission?  What do they value:

  • Community Support
  • Creativity
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Special populations
  • Impact/Scale?
  • What have they supported in the past?
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 Ideas rarely live in isolation  Look at what the organization has funded in the past  Enlist the help of those who have gone before you  Read the Request for Proposal  Make sure your “house” is in order  Look for alignment opportunities

  • Are they funding the kinds of projects you want to do?
  • What will they pay for? Buildings? Operational expenses? Equipment?

Travel? Special Events?

  • Is the period of time adequate?
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 Rejection Reasons:

  • You didn’t follow the guidelines
  • Your goals didn’t align with their goals
  • You (or your organization) do not appear prepared to take on the

proposed activity

  • Program objectives aren’t measurable
  • Problems with the budgets
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 County  Federal – grants.gov  Reach out to your state legislators - GIA  Major Corporations  Hawaii Community Foundation  Small Business Association  Other ways to raise funds:

  • Go Fund Me
  • Indiegogo
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Above: Vice Minister Lin, People’s Republic of China Right: President Ma Ying-jeou, Republic of China (Taiwan)  Understand your audience  Set the scene and Explain what

your organization does

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 Read the grant guidelines  Gather information needed  Check your idea with others  Ask for letters of support (and give others adequate time to

prepare)

 Write and revise  Check your numbers for accuracy  Recheck everything

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 Mistakes are easy to make  Funders’ agendas are not always obvious  It’s competitive  Talk to the Grant contact person  Check-out the Funder’s website  Ask Community partners for input  Reach out to experts in the field

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[§5-7.5] "Aloha Spirit". (a) "Aloha Spirit" is the coordination of mind and heart within each person. It brings each person to the self. Each person must think and emote good feelings to others. In the contemplation and presence of the life force, "Aloha", the following unuhi laula loa may be used: "Akahai", meaning kindness to be expressed with tenderness; "Lokahi", meaning unity, to be expressed with harmony; "Oluolu", meaning agreeable, to be expressed with pleasantness; "Haahaa", meaning humility, to be expressed with modesty; "Ahonui", meaning patience, to be expressed with perseverance. These are traits of character that express the charm, warmth and sincerity

  • f Hawaii's people. It was the working philosophy of native Hawaiians and was

presented as a gift to the people of Hawaii. "Aloha" is more than a word of greeting or farewell or a salutation. "Aloha" means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return. "Aloha" is the essence

  • f relationships in which each person is important to every other person for

collective existence. "Aloha" means to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to know the unknowable. (b) In exercising their power on behalf of the people and in fulfillment

  • f their responsibilities, obligations and service to the people, the legislature,

governor, lieutenant governor, executive officers of each department, the chief justice, associate justices, and judges of the appellate, circuit, and district courts may contemplate and reside with the life force and give consideration to the "Aloha Spirit". [L 1986, c 202, §1]

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 Hawaii Community Foundation

  • www.HawaiiCommunityFoundation.org

 County of Maui – Office of Economic Development

www.mauicounty.gov

 Federal Grants: www.grants.gov  Weinberg Foundation www.hjweinbergfoundation.org  My contact:

Deidre Tegarden dtegarden@hawaii.rr.com 808/276-5756