Project Grant V259A210020

The University of Hawaii has been awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311). The award will fund the GrowFarm Hawaii (GFH) project, which aims to enhance Hawaii's food system resilience by increasing the number of viable farm businesses and the volume of local food production. The GFH project provides a certificate-based farmer training program that integrates conceptual and experiential learning,...

The federal Project Grant award of $749,298 was provided by the Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (CFDA 10.311). The award will fund the "Hana Mahi'ai" initiative delivered by The Kohala Center, Inc., a non-profit organization in Waimea, Hawaii. The initiative aims to provide training, technical assistance, and resources to Native Hawaiian new and beginning farmers and ranchers....

The Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration awarded $2 million under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289) to Pacific International Center For High Technology Research (Pichtr) for a project grant concluding January 2025. The grant aims to address Hawaii's critical technician workforce shortage required to replace cesspools by 2050 through three goals: strengthening wastewater career pathways by engaging employers to align skills...

The Hoola Veteran Services (HVS) was awarded a $749,979 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP) to support the Bridging the Gap: Growing Veterans Pilot Program. The goal of the program is to help military veterans in Hawaii transition skills learned in the military to careers in agriculture through hands-on training and networking opportunities. Key services...

The University of Hawaii West Oahu (UHWO) was awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Grants program (CFDA 10.228). The "Huaka'i 'Ike 'Aina (HI'A) Project" aims to build a robust multi-campus higher education leadership pathway toward careers in agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) in Hawaii. The project...

This $500,000 federal Project Grant award to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, funded under the USDA NIFA Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Education Grants Program (CFDA 10.223), aims to enhance the university's capacity to provide non-credit agricultural workforce training and producer education programs tailored to adult learners in Hawaii. The project will offer integrated research, education, and extension activities to facilitate access to agricultural pathways for Native Hawaiian and...

The Department of the Interior awarded a $190,000 Project Grant to the non-profit organization Kakoo Oiwi under the Native Hawaiian Community Guest Stewardship program (CFDA 15.068) to complete the following activities within a 24-month period: Educate the community on traditional Hawaiian farming and ahupuaa (land division) management practices. Remove 3 acres of invasive grasses from the Heeia wetlands. Restore 3 additional acres of loi kalo (taro patches) for a total of 10 acres. Conduct 30...

This $109,090 Project Grant award, provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) through the Food Safety Outreach Program (CFDA 10.328), will build local training and education capacity in Hawaii to support stakeholders in complying with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The University of Hawaii (UH) Cooperative Extension will lead this 3-year project to identify and train local food safety educators from UH, state...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Advocacy and Outreach awarded a $748,015 three-year Project Grant to the Hawaii Institute of Pacific Agriculture (HIP Agriculture), a non-profit organization in Hawaii. The grant is funded through the USDA's Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers (2501) Program (CFDA 10.443). The grant will enable HIP Agriculture to provide linguistically appropriate agricultural training, workforce development,...

This five-year, $500,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) will fund the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Advanced Technology Training in Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resource Sciences-Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates (ATT-AGFSC-REEU) program. The program aims to address food security challenges in Hawaii through experiential learning and workforce...