Funding Sources
The CDS leverages funds to produce innovative programs and products to support individuals with diverse abilities across the lifespan. For every $1 received from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) in core funding, CDS generated about $40.46 of federal, state, and local grant funding (July 1, 2008-June 30, 2009).
Funding for Center activities comes from the following:
- United States Department of Education | DOE Funding Sources
- United States Department of Health and Human Services | DOH Funding Sources
- United States Department of Labor | DOL Funding Sources
- American Samoa Department of Education
- Assistive Technology Resource Center of Hawai‘i
- Centers for Medicaid and Medicare
- Hawai‘i State Department of Corrections
- Hawai‘i State Department of Education
- Hawai‘i State Department of Health
- Hawai‘i State Department of Human Services
- Hawai‘i State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
- Institute of Educational Sciences (IES)
- Kosrae Special Parent Network
- Minot State University
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
- University of Hawai‘i President’s Diversity and Equity Fund
- University of Hawai‘i John A. Burns School of Medicine
- University of Minnesota




