Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation

New Annual Deadlines!

There are two types of grants made by the Foundation: Athletic Grants and Scholarship Grants. Athletic Grants are then divided into three categories, Individual, Team and Event Grants. The purpose of our Athletic Grants is to sponsor, promote and encourage participation in state, national and international competitions in the sports of canoeing, surfing, kayaking, swimming, water polo and volleyball.

Athletic grant applicants (individuals, teams or events) should:

• Provide your personal history in the event
• Describe your training program
• Describe up to three years of previous competition
• Provide documented results of competition with records and times
• Provide a grant budget and describe other forms of fundraising you are pursuing
  
• Know that the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation awards only one grant per person, event or group per fiscal year (October through September).

INDIVIDUAL ATHLETIC GRANTS, which are usually for a specific purpose or competition, for example,  a swimmer needing funding to compete overseas. Athletic grants may be applied for at any time (One per fiscal year). The grants committee reviews applications and makes awards quarterly according to the following schedule:

Individual Athletic Grant Application Deadline - February 15
Notification End of April

TEAM ATHLETIC GRANTS  are awarded to sponsor, promote and encourage Team participation in state, national and international competitions in the sports of canoeing, surfing, kayaking, swimming, water polo and volleyball. For example, Lanikai Canoe Club competing in Hawaiki Nui  canoe race in Tahiti.

Team Athletic Grant Application Deadline - February 15
Notification End of April

Athletic Event Applications are for events such at the Walter J. McFarlane Regatta, Redwing's World Championship of Handboarding, the Boys & Girls Club Duke Sports and Fitness Day, the Hawaii Youth Challenge Academy Duke Sports and Fitness Day, other sporting events.

Athletic Event Application Deadline - August 15
Notification End of November

SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS areawarded only once a year. Applications are accepted from January 1st to April 1st. If grantees continue in school with satisfactory grades, they are given preference in their reapplication for succeeding years, but they must reapply for the grant annually.

SCHOLARSHIP AND ATHLETIC GRANT REQUIREMENTS

• Be a resident of Hawai`i and an American citizen
• Have participated in competitive sports
• Demonstrate financial need
• Submit a completed application
• Submit a personal letter of intention
• Submit a list of competitive sports and awards
• Submit a letter from an athletic coach or trainer
• Submit a federal tax return(parents’ if you are claimed as a dependent) or financial statement in the case of a team or organization
• Submit a recent photo, preferable an action shot in your sport

In addition, scholarship applicants must:

• Plan to attend an accredited college as a full-time student
• Submit your most recent transcript of grades
• Submit two letters of reference from the school you are attending at the time of your application

Go to our downloads page for applications complete with instructions.

Also know that there is a separate Nadine Alexander Kahanamoku Scholarship available to students of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.