Grants
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The St. Francis Medical Center Cancer Screening and Education Program has received a Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation grant that will pay for a breast cancer screening internship position.
The internship will allow the program to disseminate screening program information to medically underserved women and health-care providers. It also will focus on outreach and partnerships with community agencies serving the community.
• Fifty-seven public and private O'ahu and Big Island schools collected $69,000 in spare change during the three-week Pennies for Patients benefit for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
The participating schools raised over $14,000 more than they did last year.
"We are very appreciative of the generosity of the students and the sponsors during the Pennies For Patients program, especially this year," said MEA Neal of the Leukemia Society. "We are amazed by the outpouring and the giving spirit."
During the drive, students learn about leukemia and blood-related cancers.
Participating schools that collect the most cash are given a Domino's pizza party.
Top fund-raising schools receive a gift certificate to the school supply store of their choice.
• Hospice Hawaii has received grants from the following supporting foundations:
• $25,000 from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation toward the purchase and installation of teleconferencing equipment to improve clinic operations on Moloka'i.
• $8,000 from The Pettus Foundation in support of hospice care.
It's the third consecutive year that Hospice Hawaii has been a beneficiary of the late James Pettus, a Honolulu philanthropist.
• $5,000 from The Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation toward a computer upgrade project. Much-needed equipment has been purchased with a portion of the money, and revitalization of the Web site is under way.
Hospice Hawaii is a community-based nonprofit organization that provides care for people who are terminally ill as well as support services for their families, caregivers and loved ones. For information call: 924-9255.
• The HMSA Foundation has provided $5,000 to the Hawaii Donor Family Initiative for a donor family support group, Web site and information brochure to ensure and expand services for Hawai'i organ/tissue donor families.
For more information call 585-0430.
• Hawai'i Pacific University's Division of Nursing was awarded a $32,000 Advanced Practice Education Nursing Traineeship grant by the Department of Health and Human Service's Health Resources and Services Administration.
The grant enables the university to award six to eight HPU nursing graduate students with one-time partial tuition scholarships for the fall 2002 semester.
Priority will be given to students who plan to serve in underserved areas in the community upon completion of their graduate studies.
