{"id":333078,"date":"2020-11-09T06:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=333078"},"modified":"2020-11-09T06:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T20:03:49","slug":"boh-now-accepting-grant-applications-for-small-businesses-on-saipan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/boh-now-accepting-grant-applications-for-small-businesses-on-saipan\/","title":{"rendered":"BOH now accepting grant applications for small businesses on Saipan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Hawaii is now accepting applications for the I Kinometi Para I Kumunid\u00e5t I Isl\u00e5-ta Small Business Revitalization and Development Grant for projects that stimulate small business development and economic activity in Saipan. Small business owners with a successful track record in business operation or management and who have not yet been a recipient of the grant are invited to submit applications by Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Five grants up to $5,000 each will be awarded. <\/p>\n<p>Bank of Hawaii established the grant program in 2012 to promote new businesses and to encourage existing small businesses on the island of Saipan to expand. <\/p>\n<p>Grant awardees are expected to report to the bank on how the grant has made a difference to their business and the community by Friday, Feb. 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are available here or by contacting either the Pacific Islands Small Business Development Center at http:\/\/www.pacificsbdc.com\/locations\/cwwwnmi-sbdc, Bank of Hawaii\u2019s Gualo Rai Branch or our Gualo Rai Branch Manager Rose Sumor at Rose.Sumor@boh.com or (670) 237-2983. Applications should be submitted to: Branch Manager Rose Sumor via email at Rose.Sumor@boh.com or by regular mail to Bank of Hawaii, Springs Plaza, Chalan Pale Arnold, Saipan MP 96950 or PO Box 500566, Saipan MP 96950. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Hawaii is now accepting applications for the I Kinometi Para I Kumunid\u00e5t I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":327591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13230],"class_list":["post-333078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-boh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}