Posted on: Sunday, September 30, 2007
Grants and awards
Advertiser Staff
The Alexander & Baldwin Foundation has pledged a capital grant of $50,000 toward Bishop Museum's Hawaiian Hall Restoration Project. The grant will be used to help restore the historic koa cases that have housed artifacts in Hawaiian Hall for more than 100 years.
Also donated to this cause was $75,000 by the Bank of Hawaii Charitable Foundation.
The Hawai'i Justice Foundation has donated $10,000 to the Hawai'i Innocence Project, part of a national network which allows law students to assist practicing criminal defense attorneys in seeking the release of wrongfully convicted persons.
Aloha Termite & Pest Control recently conducted a free covered fumigation of the HUGS Center in Kaimuki. Ground termite treatment and a complete pest control spraying were also conducted.
Hawai'i's community colleges will join Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, with commitments from funding partners totaling $1.5 million.
Implementing Hawai'i participation in the project will be the shared responsibility of the University of Hawai'i system, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Kamehameha Schools. Each has committed to provide $100,000 per year for the five years of involvement in the project.
Friends of Hawai'i Charities Inc. has awarded $5,000 to the Volcano Art Center. The grant will be used to continue the successful Educational Subsidies for the Needy program, which enables economically disadvantaged individuals to attend VAC classes and workshops at a 50 percent to 80 percent discount.
The Captain David Lyman Endowment Fund Committee and The California Maritime Academy have created The Captain David Lyman Scholarship Endowment, opening new opportunities for Hawaiian students attending Cal Maritime. The initial $100,000 funding for the endowment includes contributions from members of the Hawaiian maritime industry and the Hawai'i Harbor Pilots Association, members of the Lyman family and Captain Lyman's many friends.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has awarded grants to Hawai'i Maoli, a nonprofit entity of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and the Pearl Harbor Hawaiian Civic Club. The funds will be used to develop a series of televised monthly Hawaiian language programs for preschool to first-grade children.
ABC Stores have awarded a $5,000 grant to Ala Kuola, a nonprofit agency that assists victims of domestic abuse in filing temporary restraining orders with the Family Court on O'ahu.
Various Hawai'i-based foundations have granted funds to Imua Family Services for its Early Childhood Development Program. The program provides therapeutic services to children ages 3 through 5 who are not meeting age-appropriate milestones in the areas of speech, language, occupational and physical therapy.
The foundations are the: Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation, Sophie Russell Testamentary Trust, Atherton Foundation, Fred Baldwin Foundation, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Foundation, McInerny Foundation, HMSA Foundation, Okumura Family Fund and a foundation that requested anonymity.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has awarded a $100,000 grant to Moloka'i Land Trust to help it establish a Moloka'i office and hire consultants and staff. This precedes transfer of the first 1,600 acres of coastal and upcountry land from Moloka'i Properties Unlimited in 2008.
Moloka'i Land Trust's purpose is to protect and restore the land, natural and cultural resources of Moloka'i and to perpetuate the unique Native Hawaiian traditions and character of the island.
Friends of Hawai'i Charities Inc. recently awarded $1,000 to Save the Sea Turtles International dba Adopt a Beach Hawai'i. The funds will be used to conduct beach clean ups and to provide public recycling and garbage receptacles at O'ahu beaches.
AlohaCare has awarded $40,000 to nonprofit agencies. They are: Manawale'a, a summer camp for disabled children; Moloka'i General Hospital for a birthing bed; Hale Makua and Giving Back, Maui for Kupuna Kokua program; Maui Adult Day Care Centers for the Sun Downing Program; Hawaii Community Caregiver Network for the 9th Annual Carousel of Care; Tobacco Education & Assistance Program for treatment events.
The National Park Service has awarded $180,000 to the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The funds will be distributed over a four-year period to operate the Historic Preservation Field School in Volcano, Hawai'i.
Friends of Hawai'i Charities has awarded a $150,000 grant to The Salvation Army to be used to establish the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Kapolei. The funds will supplement the $80 million gift from the estate of Joan Kroc, wife of McDonald's founder, Ray Kroc.
Friends of Hawai'i Charities recently distributed a record $1,055,000 in grants to more than 130 Hawai'i nonprofit organizations. Its flagship fundraising event is the Sony Open in Hawaii PGA Tour golf tournament held annually at the Waialae Country Club. Its charity partner, The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc., provides matching funds.
Its other key fundraising events are the Champions Tour Turtle Bay Championship, the LPGA Tour's SBS OPEN at Turtle Bay and Field Open tournaments. The Friends Club also contributes to the charity fund raising efforts through its members, a broad spectrum of business leaders, philanthropists, volunteers and generous community members.
Friends of Hawai'i Charities Inc. recently awarded $10,000 to Narconon Hawai'i. The grant will be used for the Narconon Hawaii New Life Detoxification Program.
Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation, on behalf of Maui Electric Company, awarded a $5,000 grant to the Friends of Fleming Arboretum to help build a storage facility and restroom at the D.T. Fleming Arboretum at Pu'u Mahoe. The shed and restroom facility will protect the arboretum's equipment and enable FOFA to expand its community outreach and education efforts.
The Atherton Family Foundation, the Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation, the Cooke Foundation, Bank of Hawai'i and the A&B Foundation are also helping with the permitting and construction costs of the facility.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a technical assistance grant to Forest City Military Communities Hawaii for its proposal, "Residential Hybrid Solar Electric & Thermal Systems in Hawaii." The project will help determine the feasibility of incorporating hybrid solar-thermal electric systems into a large military residential project on O'ahu.
The Alexander and Baldwin Foundation, funded by the business activities of Alexander & Baldwin Inc. and its subsidiaries, recently awarded a $10,000 grant to Chaminade University to partially fund a comparison macroscope for Chaminade's Forensic Sciences program.
The comparison macroscope will allow forensic students to compare separate objects or separate slides and record information into a computer.
Chaminade is the only university in the country offering both a bachelor of science degree and a master's of science degree in forensic science.
The March of Dimes Hawai'i Chapter has awarded a grant to Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services in support of the Cross Cultural Childbirth Education series training that targets underserved maternal and child health needs in Hawai'i.
Friends of Hawai'i Charities Inc., has awarded Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu a $7,500 grant. The funds will be used to further develop the organization's site-based mentoring programs. The programs provide high school students the opportunity to volunteer their time and become friends and mentors to Hawai'i's elementary school students.
Also involved in the grant were the Sony Open and The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc.
Artist John Henry Nichols recently presented his woodblock print entitled "Moses Mountain deep in the promised land" to the National Medical Association and its new president, Nelson Adams, M.D. The occasion was the installation luncheon at the Halekulani hotel.
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