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APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS County of Hawaii Nonprofit Grants-in-Aid: Waiwai Grant Program * NOTICE! You are strongly advised to carefully review these instructions and the Notice to Applicants for FY 2025-26 Nonprofit Grants-in-Aid: Waiwai Grant Program. It is your responsibility to be in full compliance. Failure to do so will result in the disqualification of your application and/or in penalties applied to you which may require your organization to return funds awarded and be ineligible for future County grant awards. Policies 1. Each organization is permitted to submit a total of two (2) applications.Each application is limited to a request of up to $50,000.Applications submitted through a nonprofit fiscal sponsor are not counted towards the sponsoring organization's two limit application limit. An organization may submit applications for multiple programs/services but NOT for the same program/service serving multiple communities. For example, ABC Nonprofit runs an after-school program/service in Hilo and Kona as well as a weekly feeding program/service in Hilo,Puna, and Ka'u. • ABC Nonprofit will submit one application for the after-school program and note in the application all communities served by this program (Hilo and Kona). • ABC Nonprofit will submit a second application for the weekly feeding program and note in the application all the communities served(Hilo,Puna, and Ka'u). • ABC Nonprofit could still serve as a fiscal sponsor for another organization's application to provide programs/services. 2. Any application shall be disqualified i£ a. Travel funding for training/conferences is requested. b. The total score of the application is less than 70%. c. Administrative and overhead costs exceed 10% of the total application request. (Administrative and overhead costs are those expenses incurred by grant recipients or sub-recipients in support of the day-to-day operations of their organization. These overhead costs are the expenses that are not directly tied to a specific program purpose.) 3. Organizations applying for multiple programs/services must submit a grant application for each program/service. Program/service descriptions and budget tables must reflect the full scope of each program/service's operations. 4. Applications must be for programs/services which occur during the fiscal year of the grant award, and all awarded funds must be spent within that same Fiscal Year. 5. Awards cannot provide funds for capital improvements (cost of construction, materials, insurance or securities) on private properties unless otherwise authorized by law. General Requirements 1. The Grant Application Packet can be found on the Finance -Nonprofit Grant Forms page of the County of Hawai`i's website: http://www.hawaiicounty.gov/fn-nonprofit-grant-forms/ 2. County Code specifies that you must use the application form provided by the County. The application must be submitted online. The full list of questions can be found in the next section (Application Page 1 of 10