2024-06-18 PL-INT-2024-007988 HACBED Category PL.3

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Hawaiian Culture Programs to inform the new partnership in which HCF will administer the two grantmaking programs for HTA. Other examples of HACBED's community and organizational capacity building experience and expertise include: • Ho'owaiwai Network Kohala Collaboration—Building on the work of network partners--including a diverse coalition of nonprofits,government departments, social service agencies, and businesses--HACBED is determining the feasibility of expanding and deepening the impact of the Ho`owaiwai Network by conducting a planning process with support for potential pilots in collaboration with partners in North Hawai`i. • Hawai'i Farm to School and School Garden Hui—Provided preparation,planning, and facilitation support to the hui for their strategic planning retreat. • Ohana Based Youth Savings Initiative—Development of an incentivized youth savings program for 6th-10th grade students that serves as an entry point to a broader set of family financial empowerment services to embed asset building into the core human services delivery systems. • Kupaianaha—Through a contract with the State of Hawaii Office of Planning, HACBED's efforts helped to encourage and guide investment by the private sector and government agencies in culturally, socially, and environmentally compatible economic development projects and strategies in and adjacent to native Hawaiian homestead communities throughout the state of Hawaii. • The Community Connection (CommConn)—CommConn was a nine-month training and technical support program conducted by HACBED for CBED organizations that were planning and/or implementing economic ventures. The program was held in 1994, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2006 and more than 320 grassroots leaders from over 150 CBED organizations from all islands have participated in CommConn. Some of the primary sponsors of The Community Connection have included the State DBEDT, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Bank of Hawai`i, American Savings Bank, Hawai`i Community Foundation, the City& County of Honolulu, the County of Hawai`i, the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, the National Rural Funders Collaborative, and the Kosasa Family Foundation. • Schools of the Future—Through a contract with the Hawai`i Community Foundation and in partnership with the Hawai`i Association of Independent Schools, HACBED provided facilitation and technical support for learning circles formed in and between the 20 schools chosen to be part of HCF's Schools of the Future initiative. • Youth Matters Network (YMN)—Through a contract with the Hawai`i Community Foundation, provided facilitation and technical support to establish and conduct learning circles for 18 nonprofit youth serving organizations in the YMN. • 1Vorkshops Trainings—Workshops and trainings have been organized and conducted on such topics as microenterprise development and lending, Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), the Community Reinvestment Act, commercial real estate development for nonprofits, 7