Grants

Advertiser Staff

• Two grants designed to promote wholesome recreational activities and positive experiences for Hawai'i's disadvantaged children were awarded recently to The Salvation Army:

• The Ellen M. Koenig Memorial Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation granted $22,000 to provide scholarships to allow disadvantaged children to attend and experience camp at The Salvation Army's Camp Homelani on the North Shore.

• The Atherton Family Foundation gave a grant of $10,000 to support The Salvation Army's efforts to develop and build a community skateboard facility in Waimea, Hawai'i. The facility will provide Waimea's children a safe, drug-free and supervised environment as an alternative to the dangerous use of public and business premises for skateboarding.

• The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has committed $11.9 million to support 26 new research projects by top scientists investigating multiple sclerosis. The Hawai'i division contributes money toward this research effort.

• The Baby Hui: Infants and Toddlers has been awarded a $7,500 grant by The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation to provide support to at-risk parents. The money will cover half the cost of providing services to 125 teen and single parents who participate in The Baby Hui's program annually.

The Hui is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization comprised of a statewide network of neighborhood-based positive parenting support groups. Its mission is to support, encourage and empower parents with the challenges of raising children 3 and younger.

• Friends of Pearl Harbor Trail has been awarded a $2,000 seed grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Hawaii Preservation Services Fund. The money will be used for outreach to involve Leeward O'ahu residents in projects along the 18.6-mile corridor of the old OR&L railway right-of-way from Pearl Harbor to Nanakuli. Community Work Day Program of Hawaii will administer the grant.

• Goodwill Industries has received two grants:

• $50,000 from The Robert E. Black Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation for Goodwill's Nursing Assistant Training & Certification program, one of three training programs Goodwill has developed to place unemployed workers in demand occupations. The other two are for A+ Certified Computer Technicians and Human Service Workers.
• $10,000 from the G.N. Wilcox Trust toward the purchase of production and retail equipment, such as interstacking totes, wheeled bins and display racks. The equipment will help Goodwill improve operating efficiency.

• The Hawai'i Allicance for Arts Education has received a $105,000 grant from the Atherton Family Foundation.

The money will be used to create a new support position and a workstation at the alliance, a nonprofit arts advocacy and service organization representing 110 arts and education organizations and 350 individual artists and educators.

• Friends of the Children's Justice Center has received $51,000 in grants: $25,000 from the Victoria and Bradley Geist Foundation, $15,000 from the ATHERTON FAMILY FOUNDATION, $6,000 from the Teresa F. Hughes Trust Estate and $5,000 from the Gannett Foundation Inc.

The Friends of the Children's Justice Center is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization formed to help establish the Children's Justice Center and to support its programs, which help O'ahu's sexually and physically abused children and their families.