Grants
Advertiser Staff
• Cycle City Ltd. has donated more than 3,700 pieces of Harley Davidson children's apparel and toys, valued at $96,000, to Malama Na Keiki Foundation, which will distribute the items to young participants in programs run by Adult Friends for Youth, Catholic Charities, the Hawaii Family Support Center, Maui Family Support Services, Parents and Children Together and Special Olympics Hawaii.
Every year, Cycle City donates a portion of its revenues to organizations such as the foundation, which was selected because of its widely recognized efforts to help at-risk children.
• The College of Business Administration at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa has again been awarded the Center for International Business Education and Research grant by the U.S. Department of Education. The grant for 2002-03 helps pay for such operations as the Pacific Asian Management Institute programs for the Japan Executive MBA, the China Executive MBA and the Vietnamese Executive MBA.
• The Verizon Foundation has awarded $8,000 to Mission Houses Museum to help update and expand its Web site. Web pages will include visitor information, education programs, a calendar of events, a virtual tour and a list of volunteer projects.
• The Maui Ocean Center has announced that the Malama Kai Foundation is the beneficiary of its Malama Maui program for the third quarter of 2002. The program is rooted in the Hawaiian concept that everything in nature is connected, from the mountains to the sea.
The Malama Kai Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ocean stewardship through community service and public education, has played a key role in installing day-use moorings at many popular dive sites around the state.
• The Mabel I. Wilcox Foundation Trust presented the American Cancer Society with a grant of $1,500 for quality-of-life programs on Kaua'i such as "Look Good ... Feel Better," designed to improve self-esteem, and Reach Recovery, a support group that visits women who have breast cancer.
• The Hawai'i Primary Care Association has received $60,000 from the Robert Emens Black Fund and $40,000 from the Gwenfread Allen Fund of the Hawai'i Community Foundation. The money will be used to expand the outreach of the Hawai'i Primary Care Association, especially with regard to individuals with low income who are uninsured or covered by Medicaid, or people whose language or culture might pose difficulties in seeking out assistance.
• Publisher Benjamin Bess of Bess Press recently donated 100 books, 50 of them autographed by the authors, to the Hawai'i State Public Library System for the Children's and Young Adult Summer Reading Programs. The books will be distributed to 50 libraries statewide and be used as incentive prizes.
• Goodwill Industries of Hawaii Inc. has been awarded $15,000 by the Atherton Family Foundation for the purchase of equipment to improve processing and retail operations. Goodwill's revenue from retailing helps pay for occupational skills training, career development and social services programs.
