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From Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
Hawai‘i nonprofits stand to receive a lot more grant funding from the Legislature this year due to expectations of federal aid cuts by President Donald Trump.
State lawmakers gave final approval to two bills Wednesday through which up to $80 million is being directed to, or set aside for, charitable organizations statewide.
Over a third of the funding, $30 million, is to be distributed to 121 nonprofits through the Legislature’s annual grants-in-aid program, which is the same sum distributed in 2024 but down from about $40 million in 2023 and $49 million in 2022.
But because legislators and nonprofit operators fear cutbacks in federal grants to charitable organizations this year, an additional state grant fund was approved in Senate Bill 933 with $50 million to be distributed to nonprofits that are adversely affected by federal grant decisions and may apply for funding later this year if the bill becomes law.
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser — A seven-year federal grant awarded in 2018 to support college and career readiness in 25 public high schools and 35 public middle schools across Hawai‘i is set to expire — and education officials are concerned it might not be renewed.