Grants
Advertiser Staff
Credit union raises $2,000
Employees of the Pearl Harbor Federal Credit Union have raised nearly $2,000 for the National Kidney Foundation of Hawai'i. The workers sold cookies and entertainment books for more than two months. Each year, the credit union chooses one charity to support.
Mentoring program helped
The Department of Health's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division has awarded $274,000 to the Waimanalo Health Center. The money will be used for the center's Ku I Ka Mana Native Hawaiian Youth Mentoring Program at Waimanalo Elementary and Intermediate School. The center will receive the money in halves over fiscal years 2004 and 2005.
The George P. and Ida T. Castle Trust also gave a $10,000 grant to help the mentoring program expand from the sixth grade and seventh grade to the eighth grade.
Trust awards $5,000 to DHT
Diamond Head Theatre has received a $5,000 grant from the George P. and Ida T. Castle Trust for development of a performing arts curriculum for preteen and teen home-school students.
Asthma camp recognized
The American Lung Association of Hawai'i has been awarded a $3,000 grant from First Hawaiian Foundation, the charitable arm of First Hawaiian Bank, for its 2003 Asthma Sports Day Camps. The camps are offered to asthmatic children and their parents on O'ahu, Maui, Kaua'i and the Big Island.
$75,000 to aid PACT programs
Parents and Children Together (PACT) has received a $75,000 grant from the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund, a component fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation, on behalf of the Hawaii Coalition for Dads. The coalition will use the money to promote responsible, nurturing fatherhood through various programs.
St. Francis gets $3.5 million
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation presented a grant of $3.5 million to the St. Francis Healthcare Foundation at a groundbreaking ceremony April 4 in 'Ewa Villages for the St. Francis Residential Care Community. The money will support the development of the care community for the elderly.
Grant to teach of birth defects
The March of Dimes Hawaii Chapter has awarded a $15,000 Folic Acid Leadership grant to the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawai'i to educate women about preventing birth defects of the brain and spine.
The grant is meant to help reduce incidence of neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, in Hawai'i through increasing community and provider awareness of the importance of taking folic acid.
Arts group given $48,000
The Hawai'i Alliance for Arts Education, a nonprofit arts advocacy and service organization, received grants totaling $48,000: $30,000 from the Victoria S. & Bradley L. Geist Foundation for 'Ohana Arts at Kamehameha Homes and The ARTS at Marks Garage community programs for youth; $8,000 from the George P. and Ida T. Castle Trust for 'Ohana Arts; and $10,000 from Bank of Hawaii for ARTS FIRST, a multiyear commitment to improving K-5 art curriculum.
Money to aid in women's health
The Waimanalo Health Center has also received a grant of $14,090 from the Hawai'i affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The money will go toward screenings for uninsured Native Hawaiian and Filipino women, ages 40 to 49, and toward providing educational materials on women's health.
