Grants
Advertiser Staff
Family group gets $20,000
Parents and Children Together has received a $15,000 grant from the Bank of Hawaii Charitable Foundation to support its Economic Development Center.
The Law Office of Bayes Deaver Lung Rose Baba also donated $5,000 to the agency.
Verizon gives to Ali'iolani school
Ali'iolani Elementary School's "Accelerates in Reading" program has received a $9,975 grant from the Verizon Foundation. The project aims to improve students' reading comprehension, and the aid will be used for additional computers, library books and classroom programs.
Donation helps Read Aloud
As part of an effort to invest $75 million in communities across the United States in 2003, the Verizon Foundation has donated $10,000 to the Read Aloud America program of Hawai'i.
RAP, a student/family literacy program founded in 1995, serves more than 50,000 participants in 24 Hawai'i's public schools.
$25,000 aids school program
St. Andrew's Priory, an Episcopal school for girls, has received a $25,000 grant from the Atherton Family Foundation to expand the school's "Teaching and Learning with Laptops" program. The grant will go toward the purchase of 20 laptop computers.
The Atherton Family Foundation is a statewide, nonprofit, charitable organization.
Church closer to $2.1 million goal
Moving closer to its $2.1 million campaign goal set last year, the United Church of Christ-Judd Street received $60,000 in grants from three local organizations for expenses associated with capital renovation projects for the church and its Pali Preschool.
Gifts included: $25,000 from the Atherton Family Foundation, $25,000 from the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation and $10,000 from G.N. Wilcox Trust.
First Hawaiian finances project
The First Hawaiian Foundation has completed a two-year grant of $10,000 toward the Kaumakapili Church Restoration project.
The church's restoration committee has raised more than $1 million in the past 2 1/2 years to revamp the 91-year-old structure.
Donors boost Goodwill efforts
Goodwill Industries of Hawai'i has received grants from local organizations, including $5,000 from The Cades Foundation, for its training in demand occupations programs.
Goodwill offers job training, testing and placement assistance. Training programs include tuition, training materials and the costs of licensing and certification.
Printmakers get $7,480
The Honolulu Printmakers has received a $7,480 grant from the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Fund of the Hawai'i Community Foundation to support innovative printmaking.
The money will go toward material stipends, free studio space and an exhibition with catalog for two local printmakers, Joshua Tollefson and Iris Altamira.
This program encourages professional development for local artists, which would not be possible without such financing.
AlohaCare will help diabetics
AlohaCare, a part of the QUEST healthcare plan, said it will award six grants of up to $5,000 each to help Hawai'i's diabetes patients.
More than 86,000 Hawai'i residents are believed to be affected by diabetes. Hawai'i organizations are encouraged to complete and submit the AlohaCare Neighbors Grant application by March 15. For more information, call 973-1650 or from the Neighbor Islands, (800) 434-1002 or visit www.alohacarehawaii.org.
