Posted on: Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Grants
$5,000 grants available
Ho'opono Ko'olau Loa Community Foundation has a number of $5,000 grants to award to qualifying applicants. Preference will be given to tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations in the Ko'olau Loa area of Windward O'ahu who are strongly committed to their proposed project.
The nonprofit status requirement may be waived at the discretion of the foundation. The application deadline is July 19.
Grants will target eight program areas: grassroots/cultural, social services, community service, community development and organization, education, youth, business/economic development, and health.
The Foundation will consider projects involving training and education, direct services (such as social, recreation, healthcare), creative activities, micro enterprise, community-based economic development, seed money, special projects' operating costs, direct service costs, communications (such as video and printed materials), conferences, special events, challenge grants, matching grants and unrestricted gifts.
Application packages can be obtained from Kahuku Intermediate and High School; Sunset Beach, Kahuku, La'ie, Hau'ula and Ka'a'awa elementary schools; Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center-Queen Lili'uokalani Trust (Windward Unit-Hae 'Aha); Kahuku Public Library; and The Queen Emma Foundation.
For further information, call Richard Paglinawan at 594-4748.
Legal services group awarded
Volunteer Legal Services Hawai'i is the recipient of a James and Abigail Campbell Foundation grant of $12,500, which will help the organization's Na Keiki Law Center, and a Hawaii Justice Foundation grant of $7,500, which will help further develop its holistic approach to the delivery of free legal services.
During the past 20 years, Volunteer Legal Services Hawai'i has provided legal assistance to approximately 60,000 poverty-
level or low-income individuals, 30 percent of whom are of Hawaiian ancestry.
The organization is particularly concerned about victims of sexual assault, domestic violence and children in violent households.
Life Foundation gets $25,000
The Life Foundation, Hawai'i's largest AIDS service organization, received $25,000 from a partnership between Macy's and M.A.C., or Make-Up Art Cosmetics, a Canadian line of makeup and beauty products sold at Macy's.
The money will support The Life Foundation's HIV nursing program and the care it provides to people living with AIDS.
Priory receives $12,000 grant
Saint Andrew's Priory School has received a $12,000 grant from the Cooke Foundation. The money will be used for landscaping and ground erosion control at the Queen Emma Preschool playground.
Goodwill gets training money
The James T. Pettus Foundation awarded Goodwill Industries of Hawaii $7,000 to be applied to its Emergency Job Training and Placement Assistance program.
Short-term skills training will be provided for people previously employed in the tourism industry needing assistance and training to transition into careers experiencing shortages of workers. Training is taking place in the areas of A+ certification, certified nursing assistant and human services worker.
— Advertiser Staff
