Hawaii’s Nonprofits Are Still Waiting For Millions Of Dollars In Needed Grants 0 The Legislature changed the Grant-In-Aid process this year and that’s keeping money from getting to the organizations that need it.
Nearly $50 million in state grant funds isn’t getting to nonprofits that need them to run programs because of bureaucratic holdups and missing language from the state’s budget bill.
The process and paperwork to access those funds has also been slow going for some organizations, employees of nonprofit organizations said.
The Legislature changed the process this year and funneled all the grant money into one state office to oversee. Previously, the funds had been spread across the state government to work directly with nonprofits. The money has generally become available in July.
There’s also some concern that language in the state budget bill passed by legislators earlier this year didn’t specify what money would be set aside for grants, which may also complicate the process.
