Grants

Advertiser Staff

$20,000 goes to literacy

Hawai'i Literacy has received $20,000 from the Verizon Foundation. The grant money will sustain programs in the organization and help finance a new youth program and further extend literary services.

• Ho'ala gets $234,875
• Ho'ala School in Wahiawa has received several grants from local and national foundations:
• $100,000 from the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation.
• $50,000 from the Atherton Family Foundation.
• $30,000 from Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Foundation.
• $25,000 from the Robert E. Black Fund of the Hawai'i Community Foundation.
• $18,000 from the McInerny Foundation.
• $6,875 from the Frear Eleemosynary Trust.
• $5,000 from the G.N. Wilcox Trust.
  
  
  

HEI foundation aids military

Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation, on behalf of Hawaiian Electric Co., has demonstrated its support of the Armed Services YMCA and military families in Hawai'i through a grant of $9,000 to help finance the ASYMCA Playmorning program.

Credit union gives $3,000

Hawai'i Schools Federal Credit Union has donated $3,000 to the American Lung Association of Hawaii. The money came from proceeds of the credit union's fourth annual Middle Schools Student Talent Competition, which advocates a tobacco-free lifestyle.

Read Aloud awarded grant

Read Aloud America has received a $15,000 grant from the Hawai'i Community Foundation.

The grant is supported by the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Fund and the Public-Private Partnership for Literacy Trust Fund. The money will help implement RAP at two O'ahu public schools.

Each year, the foundation gives nearly $10 million in grants to local nonprofit organizations. It is one of the nation's largest community foundations.

The Read Aloud Program is a family literacy program that brings families together twice a month during a school semester to share the pleasure of reading and reading along.

Goodwill gets grant for truck

Goodwill Industries has received $20,000 from the Mary D. and Walter F. Frear Eleemosynary Trust toward the purchase of a box truck. The truck will enable Goodwill to access more areas for donation pick-ups and increase service to its retail stores.

Convenience centers are at the Kailua and Hawai'i Kai First Hawaiian Banks, Kahala Mall and Royal Kunia Wal-Mart, as well as other areas. Goodwill on Wheels operates 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at destinations such as Tesoro Mililani Mauka, Kam Swap Meet, 'Aiea Shopping Center and Windward Mall.

Donations are taken to a processing area where they are quality checked and prepared for sale in retail stores on O'ahu and in Hilo.

HPU receives $498,000

Hawai'i Pacific University has received $498,000 from the Atherton Family Foundation to assist in the expansion and upgrading of the facilities on the Windward Hawai'i Loa campus in Kane'ohe.

The money will be used to construct new classrooms and faculty offices in the Academic Center and to connect the campus to the City & County sewer system, which is necessary for the expansion of property.