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MADD chapter receives $3,500 for youth program
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The Hawai'i State Office of Mothers Against Drunk Driving has received a charitable grant of $3,500 from West Hawai'i and the Hartwell and Rebecca Carter Fund of the Hawai'i Community Foundation to support its Youth Alcohol Impact Program. It is an education and prevention program targeting high school students throughout the state.
Its goal is to enlighten youth of the potential dangers of underage drinking and impaired driving through the stories of pain and loss told by those who have been injured or have lost a loved one in a drunken-driving crash.
The Hawai'i Community Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable service and grant-making organization supported by donations for the benefit of Hawai'i's people. With more than $277 million in charitable assets, it is one of the 30 largest among 550 community foundations in the country. Each year, it gives nearly $10 million in grants to benefit Hawai'i's nonprofit organizations.
• The University of Hawai'i at Manoa has received a $1 million gift from Dr. Sen Soshitsu XV, grand tea master of Uresenke. A fund has been established in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Uresenke International and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Uresenke Hawai'i Shibu.
At a recent signing ceremony, Evan Dobelle, university president, and Soshitsu participated in a signing ceremony to acknowledge the gift, which endows the directorship for the Center for Japanese Studies.
In supporting the center's directorship, the gift will finance post-doctoral fellowships in the center and education, outreach and tea activities.
Additionally, the center will establish the Dr. Sen Soshitsu International Way of Tea Center within the Center for Japanese Studies.
The center will have an international focus that will serve to assist CJS in fulfilling its mission of "serving state and society by promoting a deeper understanding of Japan within a global context."
Sen Soshitsu is the 15th-generation grand tea master of the Urasenke School of Tea. He studied at UH from 1951 to 1952 and holds the title of professor of Japanese history and culture.
• The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene approximately $385,000 over the next three years for a nursing work-source diversity project.
The project, "Nursing Careers for Hawaiian and Samoan Students," will provide Hawaiian and Samoan and otherwise disadvantaged persons with access to the school through program recruitment, academic assistance and educational support.
Hawaiians and Samoans are not represented proportionately in the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene's student body. Six percent of UH-Manoa nursing students are Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian; there are no Samoan students enrolled.
In addition to providing culturally sensitive care to Hawai'i's people, graduates of the project can serve as role models for future students.
Dr. Lois Magnussen, associate professor and director of the school's Office of Student Services since 1996, will be the project director.
