Grants
Advertiser Staff
The University of Hawai'i Women's Campus Club's annual grants to the university community reached a new high this year of $16,979.
Each year all profits from the club's thrift shop and its EXCHANGE newsletter make the grants possible. Money is for needs not covered by department budgets. This year a record number of applications were received and six were approved.
The largest grant for $5,000 will purchase a light-board console for the theatre and dance department's Earle Ernst Lab Theatre. This will replace an antiquated lighting board and enable students to work with a system that meets the requirements of modern production standards.
A total of $3,179 will buy Hamilton Library some videotapes on Islam and the Arab world, heavily in demand since Sept. 11.
Waikiki Aquarium will receive $2,000 to purchase ocean-bottom monitors and sonic tags to electronically track marine animals, giving students experience in marine ecology, research methods and conservative biology.
Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering will use its $3,500 to buy a barcode printer and CELL (electronic subscription) to update labeling and tracking of department search and training projects.
Environmental Health and Safety plans to use its $1,800 to purchase a computer for PowerPoint/multimedia training presentations.
Windward Community College will buy tables and benches with its $1,500 grant to provide outdoor gathering sites for students.
• The Hawai'i State Chapter of the American Red Cross has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the Alexander & Baldwin Foundation to support its ongoing disaster relief and emergency preparedness programs. Over the past 14 years the foundation has contributed $100,000 to the agency.
The Red Cross of Hawai'i is a humanitarian organization, led by volunteers, that provides relief to victims of disaster, emergency communications, and helps people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. All Red Cross assistance is free and is made possible by donations.
• Read Aloud America has received a grant of $5,000 from the G.N. Wilcox Trust to conduct the program at a public school this spring.
The trust, created in 1916 by philanthropist, businessman and state legislator George Norton Wilcox, supports a broad scope of services in Hawai'i, including programs in culture and the arts, education, health and the environment.
The Read Aloud Program is a family literacy program designed to create communities of lifelong readers. RAP brings families together twice a month during one school semester to share the pleasure and enrichment of reading and reading along.
• The Mental Health Association in Hawai'i has received contributions and grants totaling $12,500 from the following organizations: Pfizer Inc., $4,000; AstraZeneca, $3,000 for their "InnerVIEW Hawai'i" newsletter; Hawaii Medical Service Association, $1,000; GlaxoSmithKline, $1,000; Servco Foundation, $1,000; and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, $2,500 for a primary-care depression screening roundtable.
The Mental Health Association in Hawai'i, an Aloha United Way agency, works through public education and community action to end the myths and misconceptions about mental illnesses and to improve mental health services in Hawai'i.
