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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Thursday, January 30, 2003

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Advertiser Staff

Events support cancer studies

Charitable events at the Big Island's Four Seasons Resort Hualalai have boosted to more than $400,000 the amount raised to benefit cancer research programs in Hawai'i.

The latest donation of $106,211, raised at the sixth annual "Taste of Hawai'i's Big Island" and Silent Auction, the Terry Fox Run/ Walk and the Hualalai Tennis and Golf Tournaments, went to benefit the West Hawai'i Unit of the American Cancer society and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i. This year's Hualalai events take place Sept. 5 and 6. Information: (808) 325-8052.


Grants help run book swap

Read Aloud America's student/family literacy program has received grants and donations from local organizations including $8,000 from The McInerny Foundation; $9,750 from The G.N. Wilcox Trust; and $1,000 from Hawaiian Electric Co. to provide books for the RAP Book Swap at Palolo Elementary School.

The event provides students with free books to take home, read and exchange later.

Since the program began in January 1999, RAP has served more than 50,000 people through 24 programs in Hawai'i public schools.


Proceeds go to protect children

For the second year in a row, $2,500 raised from the annual Visitor Industry Charity Walk has gone to the Malama Na Keiki Foundation.

The donation will be used to underwrite the foundation's public relations and marketing campaign to help raise money to fight child abuse and prevent neglect.

Last year's grant was used to redesign the foundation's Web site.

The next Visitor Industry Charity Walk will take place May 17, 2003.


School receives grant for audit

Honolulu Waldorf School has received $6,000 from the Hawai'i Community Foundation's Robert E. Black Fund to conduct a philanthropic audit that will assess the school's capacity to draw higher levels of philanthropic support.

"This audit will help us gain greater clarity about school processes, weigh organization growth questions and assist in mapping ... growth," said school administrative director Roberta Bishop.

The school operates two campuses: kindergarten to grade 8 in Niu Valley, and high school in Kahala.


Kuakini annual gift renewed

As he has done since 1998, Makoto Yamaguchi, president of Japan real estate corporation Tosei Shoji, has presented $10,000 to The Kuakini Foundation in appreciation for the medical care he and his wife received under the hospital's outpatient Executive Health Program. The donation goes to assist Kuakini with capital improvements and to acquire medical equipment.


Grants target Kahuku kids

Kahuku Hospital has received $13,500 from three foundations to match a four-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to benefit local Hawai'i Covering Kids projects.

The Hawai'i Hotel Association gave $1,500; Ho'opono Ko'olauloa Community Foundation, $5,000; and the Good Beginnings Alliance, $7,000.


$30,000 goes to child care

People Attentive to Children has received a $30,000 grant from the Hawai'i Community Foundation to help the nonprofit organization improve the quality and availability of child care in Hawai'i.