Posted on: Thursday, October 10, 2002
Grants
Moloka'i tuition fund grows
The University of Hawaii Foundation has received $30,000 from the Dowling Co. to create the Patrick S. Kawano Endowed Scholarship fund, to be used to help support college tuition for students from Moloka'i at any UH campus.
The gift will be added to a scholarship account of $10,000 given previously by the Maui-based developer.
Of the $40,000 total, $35,000 will be used to establish an endowed fund, and $5,000 will be used immediately for scholarships.
The scholarship honors the late Patrick Kawano, former Maui County Council chairman, who was born and raised on Moloka'i and the first Moloka'i council representative to serve as chair of the County Council.
This year's scholarship recipients are Kimberly Willenbrink, Nyree Kang, Catherine Knowlton and Drena Jessop, all students at Maui Community College. In recent years the Dowling Co. has given more than $3 million in cash and land to more than 50 local organizations.
St. Francis gets help for gym
St. Francis School in Honolulu has received $5,000 from the G.N. Wilcox Trust and $5,000 from the Frear Eleemosynary Trust. The money will be used to resurface the school's gymnasium floor.
Correction: Saint Francis School received grants to resurface the floor of its gym. A previous headline was incorrect because of an editor's error.
Grant supports anti-drug show The Kona Association for the Performing Arts has received $10,000 from the Frear Eleemosynary Trust. The grant will be used to support a live dramatic educational program for youth focusing on the dangers of crystal methamphetamine, or "ice," and performed in public and private schools throughout the Big Island.
The six-week touring program will visit classrooms in November and December.
Salvation Army thanks donors
The Salvation Army has received $46,000 from the G.N. Wilcox Trust for general property upkeep and maintenance of the Family Treatment Services Center and divisional headquarters. The award was among a number of grants received recently, including: • $10,000 from the Cooke Foundation to help renovate Camp Homelani, which serves underprivileged children.
• $37,000 from the McInerny Foundation for the Family Treatment Services' Women's Way Therapeutic Nursery, which serves at-risk and drug-exposed infants and toddlers. Part of the grant also supported the summer camp program at Camp Homelani.
• $3,000 from the Abigail K. Kawananakoa Foundation to help pay for Camp Homelani's Hawaiian Music Learning School.
• $2,500 from First Hawaiian Foundation to help support the development of a communitywide youth skateboard program in Waimea on the Big Island. • $3,500 from the Karen and David Stoutemyer Charitable Fund, a donor-advised fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation, for various charitable services. Grant given to drama program
The Alliance for Drama Education has received an $18,400 grant from the Black Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation. The money will help support ADE residencies at five Kalihi schools, as well as a student-written spring production by ADE's T-shirt Theatre called "Kalihi: Where Friendship Works," at Farrington High School.
The residencies are part of a partnership between ADE and the Farrington complex to provide performance education and skill development for students and young adults.
