OHA

At OHA, facilitating collaboration is among its core values. This is critical to the organization's ability to energize relationships and earn the trust of important community partners. As a result, OHA has built formal relationships with various organizations to help achieve broad, lasting change in the Hawaiian community. Among them was the Native Hawaiian Justice Task Force, which was created by the Hawaiʻi Legislature to support comprehensive solutions to concerns about the disproportionate number of Native Hawaiians who are in prison in Hawaiʻi and the U.S. At the same time, OHA is working closely with the Nā Limahana o Lonopūhā Native Hawaiian Health Consortium to improve health... Among the key ways OHA fulfills its purpose is by providing resources towards improving conditions for Native Hawaiians. For example, each year OHA awards $500,000 in scholarship money. Similarly, nearly 2,000 Native Hawaiians have borrowed more than $34 million from OHA within the past decade to..

Also known as: Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Primary location: Honolulu United States