Grants
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Literacy program receives money
Read Aloud America has received a grant of $14,792 from the Mo Bettah Together program of the Hawaii Community Foundation to implement a new model of the Read Aloud Program, or RAP, at Nanaikapono Elementary School.
RAP is a literacy program that brings families together twice a month during one school semester to promote the values and pleasures of reading and reading along.
The new Nanaikapono model is community-based; all volunteers, readers and program workers have a connection to the school. The program is a cooperative effort among Nanaikapono Elementary, RAP and the Kamehameha Schools.
Matching gift from foundation
The East-West Center Foundation has received a $16,565 grant from the McInerny Foundation that matches gifts from 237 EWC alumni who were first-time donors in the center's annual giving campaign.
Arthritis group gets $10,000
The Hawai'i branch of the Arthritis Foundation has received a $10,000 grant from the Hawaii Building Industry Labor Association to support the foundation's partnership with Shriners Hospital Juvenile Arthritis Camp and Juvenile Arthritis Conference.
$61,000 for AUW program
Thanks to an endowment created by the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc., the Aloha United Way has received $61,000 in interest income.
The money will be used to help the elderly, homeless and at-risk youth.
Grant will help Goodwill upgrade
Goodwill Industries of Hawaii has been awarded a $20,000 grant from First Hawaiian Foundation, the charitable arm of First Hawaiian Bank.
The money, to be paid over four years, will be used to buy production and retail equipment, which will enable Goodwill to improve operating efficiency.
Bank chips in at D.A.R.E. day
HomeStreet Bank's Hawai'i-area banking and mortgage branches contributed $2,500 to the D.A.R.E. to Care Day, a fund-raising benefit held last month for the Hawaii D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Officers Association Program.
Diamond Head Theatre aided
Diamond Head Theatre has received a $10,000 grant from the Mary D. and Walter F. Frear Eleemosynary Trust to support development plans.
The money will be used to buy a development software program and implement a major gifts campaign, according to Deena Dray, the theater's managing director.
EPA awards to Neighbor Islands
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded grants to two Hawai'i agencies to support environmental education projects for schoolchildren.
The Tropical Reforestation Ecosystems Education Center on the Big Island received $12,310. The center plans to conduct an adult education program on issues affecting critical native Hawaiian habitat, to include classroom lectures, hands-on projects on how to propagate endemic Hawaiian plants, field study and a case study that will restore habitat with native plants.
Restoration work is designed to assist in the completion of the interpretive site at the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park.
The Waipa Foundation on Kaua'i received $4,450 from the EPA. The foundation, with support from the Kilauea Lighthouse Foundation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, County of Kaua'i and four local organizations focusing on people of Hawaiian ancestry, proposes to educate the community on the need and procedures for composting.
The target audience ranges from elementary to college students and local residents and farmers. A composting curriculum, "The Earth Machines," is available for distribution to fourth- and fifth-grade classes.
