Grants

Advertiser Staff

Cancer center gets $1,000

The Friends of the Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i, a nonprofit organization, has received a $1,000 grant from the Alexander & Baldwin Foundation for general operating needs.

The Hawai'i facility is among 61 cancer centers in the United States associated with the National Cancer Institute.

$5,000 subsidy for camp visits

The James & Abigail Campbell Foundation has given $5,000 to Camp Timberline, a division of Hawai'i childcare provider Kama'aina Kids.

The money will help subsidize expenses of elementary school groups so they can spend time at O'ahu's only mountaintop campground, above Makakilo in the Wai'anae mountains.

Cycle City helps at-risk children

For the second consecutive year, Cycle City Ltd. has donated more than $100,000 in children's and women's apparel and toys to Malama Na Keiki Foundation to be distributed to children at risk for abuse and neglect.

Guam relief by McDonald's

McDonald's Restaurants of Hawai'i has donated more than $8,700 to the American Red Cross for relief efforts stemming from December's typhoon in Guam. The money, raised in January at all 78 McDonald's restaurants statewide, was collected in the canisters normally used for proceeds going to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawai'i.

Seabury Hall fund grows

The Bank of Hawaii Charitable Foundation has donated $75,000 to the building campaign for Seabury Hall in Makawao, Maui. New building plans include a technology lab and the purchase of land adjacent to the school.

Castle donation goes to PATCH

The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation has donated $15,000 to People Attentive to Children to help with the hiring of an associate director.

PATCH is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality and availability of childcare in Hawai'i through education, demonstration and advocacy.

Youth theater gets $107,000

Honolulu Theatre for Youth has received grants totaling more than $107,000 from local and national foundations, corporations and individuals. Donations included:

• $23,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
• $16,000 from the Estate & Trust of Henry A. Zuberano.
• $12,500 from the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust.
• $10,000 each from Commercial Data Systems; the Mary D. and Walter F. Frear Eleemosynary Trust; the James & Sally Zukerkorn Foundation; Bank of Hawaii; and the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation.
  
  
  

$1,250 to help summer camp

The Abraham & Annie Lau Children's Fund of the Hawai'i Community Foundation has given $1,250 to the American Cancer Society to assist with the arts and crafts program at the Camp Anuenue summer program on O'ahu.

Hawai'i children of ages 7 to 21 who have been diagnosed with cancer are invited to participate in the program free of charge.