{"id":4714,"date":"2020-07-29T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T23:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:10:13","slug":"state-and-county-of-kauai-agencies-private-non-profit-organizations-in-the-state-of-hawaii-are-invited-to-apply-for-fema-public-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/state-and-county-of-kauai-agencies-private-non-profit-organizations-in-the-state-of-hawaii-are-invited-to-apply-for-fema-public-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS RELEASE: State and County of Kaua&#8217;i Agencies, Private Non-Profit Organizations in the State of Hawai&#8217;i are Invited to Apply for FEMA Public Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">July 29, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HONOLULU \u2014 Faith-based organizations, in addition to other community, volunteer, and non-profit organizations with emergency protective measure expenses and damages related to the rain event that occurred in the <strong>County of Kaua&#8217;i on March 27-28, 2020<\/strong>, may be eligible for the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s (FEMA) Public Assistance program as part of a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Types of organizations which provide critical services that may qualify for FEMA Public Assistance (PA) grants include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Private schools that provide elementary or secondary education or an institution of higher education;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hospitals and other medical-treatment facilities; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Utilities including water, sewer, and electrical systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Types of non-critical, essential services that may be eligible for PA grants include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Senior citizen and community centers or other community services;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Food programs;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Educational enrichment activities;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Custodial and day care services;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disability residential services;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assisted living and low-income housing;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Homeless shelters and rehabilitation services;&nbsp; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performing and community arts centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only organizations with state or IRS tax exempt status may be considered. For more information about eligible essential and critical service providers, go online to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/<\/a> and reference the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/public-assistance-policy-and-guidance\">Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the March 27-28, 2020 disaster, organizations that provide services of a non-critical, essential governmental nature are required to first apply for a low-interest disaster loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) before being considered for a PA grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interested State and County of Kaua&#8217;i agencies, and private non-profit organizations should go to HI-EMA\u2019s webpage located at <a href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/category\/emergency-proclamations\/2020-kauai-severe-flood\/\">2020 Kauai Severe Storm and Flooding<\/a> or \u00a0email at lorinda.g.wonglau@hawaii.gov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interested agencies are invited to view a virtual Applicant Briefing on <strong>July 31, 2020 at 9:00 am.<\/strong> The briefing should last about 30 minutes, followed by a question and answer period. Email lorinda.g.wonglau@hawaii.gov for the link to participate in the virtual Applicant Briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deadline to submit the Request for Public Assistance (RPA) is <strong>August 8, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the PA Program, FEMA awards grants to assist State and local governments and eligible Private Non-Profit entities with their recovery efforts.&nbsp; The declaration currently provides funds for eligible emergency protective measures. The federal share of the funding is 75 percent of the eligible costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"># # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arlina Agbayani<br>Public Information Officer<br>Hawai\u2019i Emergency Management Agency<br>HawaiiEMA@hawaii.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 29, 2020 HONOLULU \u2014 Faith-based organizations, in addition to other community, volunteer, and non-profit organizations with emergency protective measure expenses and damages related to the rain event that occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"4476,3322,8199,8131,3474,3189","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[352,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-2021","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15466,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions\/15466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}