{"id":372893,"date":"2022-07-25T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=372893"},"modified":"2022-07-25T06:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T20:05:03","slug":"bank-of-hawaii-offers-grant-for-saipan-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bank-of-hawaii-offers-grant-for-saipan-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Hawaii offers grant  for Saipan small businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Hawai\u2018i 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 on 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, July 29, 2022. Five grants up to $5,000 each will be awarded. <\/p>\n<p>Bank of Hawai\u2018i 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, Sept. 16, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are available at https:\/\/www.boh.com\/siteassets\/files\/economicgrant2022.pdf or by contacting either the Pacific Islands Small Business Development Center at marianas.ecenterdirect.com. Bank of Hawai\u2018i\u2019s Gualo Rai Branch, our Gualo Rai branch manager Rose Sumor at Rose.Sumor@boh.com or (670) 237-2983, or assistant branch manager Joanne Aldan at Joanne.Aldan@boh.com or (670) 237-2982. Applications should be submitted to Sumor via email at Rose.Sumor@boh.com or by regular mail to Bank of Hawai\u2018i, Branch Manager, Saipan, Box 500566, Saipan MP 96950. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Hawai\u2018i is now accepting applications for the I Kinometi Para I Kumunid\u00e5t I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":363188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372893","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=372893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}