The new address and phone number

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Honolulu Field Office

1132 Bishop Street, Suite 1400

Honolulu, HI 96813

(808) 457-4662

Information about our new location, including a map and directions, can be found at:

Bishop Place:   http://www.douglasemmett.com/office-properties/viewProperty.aspx?PropertyID=57

ABOUT Our Services

We help people find assistance for aging, disability and caregiving, such as with Nutrition, Housing, Transportation, and Financing. Learn more about our services.

If you can’t find what you are looking for on our website, call the Helpline at 808-768-7700.

Visit About Us to learn more about the Elderly Affairs Division.

Assess My Needs Use this tool to find out what you need.

FIND Services and Products

Search our directory to find services and products in the community.

Publications and brochures, including the Senior Information & Assistance Handbook, Family Caregiver Guide, and Oahu Housing Guide.

BROWSE Our Library Articles

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APPLY for Government Assistance

Determine eligibility and learn how to apply for assistance programs.

Please send this information to people looking for a job, employment assistance or getting help with their business.

If you or someone you know is looking for job opportunities and employment assistance, please visit: www.careeronestop.org (Courtesy: The Department of Labor)

Additionally, if your business is looking for support in gaining access to contracts, capital and/or counseling, please visit: www.mbda.gov & www.sba.gov

This is all about JOBS. This is all a part of Winning The Future – Out Build, Out-Educate & Out-Innovate the rest of the world.

Thank you President Obama, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Secretary Hilda Solis at the Department of Labor, National Director David Hinson & National Deputy Director Alejandra Castillo at the Minority Business Development Agency out of the Department of Commerce and Administrator Karen Mills & Deputy Administrator Marie Johns from the Small Business Administration for their leadership in being focused in getting people back to work and helping our businesses to grow, expand and hire people in your community.

Visit us at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/africanamericans

You have more important things to focus on than, um, focusing. Get back on track with these tips!

You probably don’t want to admit it but you love distractions. In fact, just like monkeys, you get a shot of dopamine every time something pulls you in another direction. Why do you think you check your email so much?

Want to be more productive and get your focus back? There are no secret tricks here… do one thing at a time. Stop multitasking—it’s just another form of distraction.

Easier said than done, I know.

Recently I sat down with Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt whose client list includes Toyota, Honda, and Disney, to name a few. He’s an expert in keeping people on task, so I thought he’d be a good person to ask.

Here are his tips for staying productive:

1. Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks. Writing “launch company website” at the top of your to-do list is a sure way to make sure you never get it done. Break down the work into smaller and smaller chunks until you have specific tasks that can be accomplished in a few hours or less: Sketch a wireframe, outline an introduction for the homepage video, etc. That’s how you set goals and actually succeed in crossing them off your list.
2. Stop multi-tasking. No, seriously—stop. Switching from task to task quickly does not work. In fact, changing tasks more than 10 times in a day makes you dumber than being stoned. When you’re stoned, your IQ drops by five points. When you multitask, it drops by an average of 10 points, 15 for men, five for women (yes, men are three times as bad at multitasking than women).
3. Be militant about eliminating distractions. Lock your door, put a sign up, turn off your phone, texts, email, and instant messaging. In fact, if you know you may sneak a peek at your email, set it to offline mode, or even turn off your Internet connection. Go to a quiet area and focus on completing one task.
4. Schedule your email. Pick two or three times during the day when you’re going to use your email. Checking your email constantly throughout the day creates a ton of noise and kills your productivity.
5. Use the phone. Email isn’t meant for conversations. Don’t reply more than twice to an email. Pick up the phone instead.
6. Work on your own agenda. Don’t let something else set your day. Most people go right to their emails and start freaking out. You will end up at inbox-zero, but accomplish nothing. After you wake up, drink water so you rehydrate, eat a good breakfast to replenish your glucose, then set prioritized goals for the rest of your day.
7. Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals. Your brain uses up more glucose than any other bodily activity. Typically you will have spent most of it after 60-90 minutes. (That’s why you feel so burned out after super long meetings.) So take a break: Get up, go for a walk, have a snack, do something completely different to recharge. And yes, that means you need an extra hour for breaks, not including lunch, so if you’re required to get eight hours of work done each day, plan to be there for 9.5-10 hours.

02/01/2012

OCB-Planning

02/01/2012

Categories: Organizational Capacity Building

Contact: ocb@hcf-hawaii.org

Planning grants support an organization’s planning efforts, this includes the development of a strategic plan, technology plan, fund development plan, marketing or communications plan, business plan, or organizational assessment.

Planning RFP – Round 2

Best Practices and Resources for Planning proposals

Fundraising Planning Worksheet

Finding Your Inner Fundraiser: A SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL

Five Tips for Nonprofits to Survive & Thrive

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January 6, 2012

Sure, having a website for your business serves a practical need: to draw net-surfing users to your product or service. However, it’s also much more than slapping on a run of the mill two-column template and calling it a day. Nothing kills an online buzz like a poorly designed or drastically outdated website. Dry and boring default templates, broken assets, confusing pages and invasive widgets do nothing but harm a page’s style, which in turn reflects poorly on the company.

2012 is heralding a new wave of innovative Web technologies and design, and a page that stays in step with these trends is bound to pique interest and lower your bounce rate. Even more, a well done and on-trend website remains effective well after the year is over, reeling users in with thoughtful design and building a design-conscious and taste-making reputation. Keep these tips in mind when you clean up your company’s website, and stay ahead of the curve for the new year. Read the rest of this entry »

Pathways Within: Roads to Reading Initiative
P.O. Box 960154
Boston, MA
02196

Phone: 617-515-7084
Email: annual@pwirtr.org
Url: http://www.pwirtr.org/

Geographic Scope:
National

Geographic Focus: 
Rural communities

Type of Organization: Other Sources

Total Annual Giving:  Not Available

Grant Details:
Book donations are provided.

Eligibility Requirements:
Nonprofit organizations and schools

Application Deadlines:
March 30, annually

Areas of Interest:
The Pathways Within Roads to Reading Initiative’s mission is to provide quality reading materials to children in underserved communities in the United States.

Through the Annual Competitive Book Donation Program, donations of new books are provided to school-based programs, after-school or community literacy programs, and day care centers in small and rural communities throughout the country. Donations are also made to public libraries for students and for direct use.

Supported organizations must meet the following eligibility requirements:

• The program must be a nonprofit organization with a 501(c)(3))tax status, including faith-based and grassroots organizations in underserved communities.
• The program’s primary focus has to be remedial reading in a structured environment.
• The program must hold meetings for a period of time and be continually and consistently under the direct supervision of professionals, paraprofessionals, or volunteers.
• The program must have at least a six-month history.
• School districts may not apply for grants, but individual schools may.
• Individual libraries are eligible, but not library districts.

Support is restricted to:

• small and rural communities, with a population of fewer than 50,000 and which are for the benefit of low-income people; and,
• organizations with annual operating budgets under $150,000 (schools and libraries are exempt from this).

The program does not fund:

• literacy events for general disbursement, gifts, or prizes;
• books used in or for home-based literacy programs; or,
• books for Even Start programs, community development agencies, or organizations whose primary focus is not children’s literacy.

.All donations are in-kind; no monetary gifts are made.

Application Procedures:
Application guidelines are available on the website listed above when the program is open.

Note: Grantees are charged an administrative fee to offset the cost of postage, shipping materials, and handling.

EIN:
04-3196932