State Grants Promised To Hawaii Nonprofits Likely To Be In Limbo For Weeks 0 Many nonprofits are scrambling to provide services while they wait for the state to fix a problem in the law allocating millions of dollars.
Hawaii nonprofits that still haven’t received nearly $50 million in grant funds from the state may need to wait until December or early next year for that money.
Short of the Legislature calling a special session in the next month – unlikely given that elections are on Tuesday – the only help for the more than 180 nonprofits awaiting grant funding could come from either the current governor’s administration or the next.
The problems with grant funding all stem from a disagreement between lawmakers and the state Attorney General’s Office over wording in the state’s budget bill that appropriated the grant money.
Meanwhile, the holdup in state government is blocking the release of those funds to more than 180 nonprofits and in some cases stalling programs that needed money to get up and running including those to help survivors of domestic violence and people on the verge of homelessness.
