Achievements • Grants
Four nonprofit groups receive humanity awards
Advertiser Staff
The Hawai'i Council for the Humanities has awarded four grants totaling $24,793 to nonprofit organizations in support of humanities projects for the public. They are:
• "Pacific World" — $10,000 to Pili Productions, Inc. and the University of Hawai'i Center for Pacific Island Studies to produce a multi-page Web site and hold workshops for teachers on the relationships between the environment, society and history. The project will explore three communities: 'Uala-pu'e, Moloka'i; Niuli'i, Hawai'i; and 'Ulupakua, Maui.
• "Biography Hawai'i" — $9,793 to the Biographical Research Center and King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center to hold live history forums on five men and women who made lasting impacts on Hawai'i's history, culture and society: Margaret Aiu Lake, who helped preserve hula and Hawaiian culture; Harriet Bouslog, a lawyer active in issues of labor, class ethnicity and gender; Prince Kuhio, whose life reflects a collision of traditional chiefly responsibilities and contemporary Western politics; Princess Ruth, who opposed the forces of a changing world; and Sanford Dole, the first president of the Republic of Hawai'i and a man whose actions were colored by complex, sometimes contradictory loyalties.
• "Animal Liberation" — $2,500 to the Vegetarian Society of Hawai'i, Animal Rights-Hawai'i and Leeward Community College for philosopher Peter Singer's recent talk on animal rights.
• "The Puerto Rican House: La Casita," — $2,500 to Friends of Waipahu Cultural Garden Park and the Puerto Rican Heritage Group to print an interpretive brochure on the Puerto Rican house at Hawai'i's Plantation Village, focusing on the first group of Puerto Ricans who arrived in 1900 and their plantation experience and cultural contributions to Hawaiian society.
• The Alexander Baldwin Foundation has donated $1,000 to the Paniolo Preservation Society toward its 16-month calendar, due out this month. Written in English and Hawaiian, it depicts the modern day paniolo and ranching life in Hawai'i and includes descriptions of Hawaiian saddles and tack.
• Parker School recently received a $10,000 grant from the McInerny Foundation. The money will be used to support the school's financial aid program for the upcoming school year.
Parker school is a private school serving 145 middle and high school students. It relies on the generous support of foundations to help parents obtain a college preparatory education for their children.
• Hawai'i Meals on Wheels, Inc. has received $6,890 from The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc. It will be used to provide hot, home-delivered meals for needy homebound elders.
Hawai'i Meals on Wheels is dedicated to providing hot food and caring human contact to homebound elderly and disabled people. Caring volunteers deliver more than 3,500 meals each month on 21 delivery routes from Kalihi to Hawai'i Kai and Kane'ohe.
In response to a growing demand for hot, home delivered meals, the agency is planning to open two new routes soon, one in Kailua and one in Kalihi.
Businesses and community groups are needed to sponsor a route one day a week. Call 988-6747.
