Grants and awards
Advertiser Staff
Three foundations give to league
The Assistance League of Hawai'i has received $75,000 in grants, including $15,000 from the G.N. Wilcox Foundation, $10,000 from the Hawai'i Community Foundation and $50,000 over two years from the McInerny Foundation, to aid in the renovation of its Community Service Center property in Honolulu.
The league is a nonprofit, volunteer philanthropic organization.
YWCA of O'ahu gets $15,000
YWCA of O'ahu has received $10,000 from The Verizon Foundation for its "YW-Connect" program, a Web site development and technology integration project that will help broaden the YWCA's impact by expanding Web marketing; and a $5,000 grant from the Junior League of Honolulu for Camp $tart-Up, a financial literacy and entrepreneurial camp for girls ages 14 to 19 that will start in July in Kane'ohe.
The eight-day camp at Camp Kokokahi will teach young women to provide for themselves and plan for their futures.
$1,000 given for scholarship
The International Association for Exhibition Management, Hawai'i chapter, has donated $1,000 to help support the Allan Woodrow Scholarship, an endowed scholarship fund established in honor of the former Hawai'i Pacific University instructor and a leader in the Hawai'i hospitality community.
The scholarship will benefit HPU students of travel industry management. For more information on donating to the Allan Woodrow Scholarship Fund, call Lianne Soga, HPU director of development, at 544-0299.
The IAEM, with headquarters in Dallas, represents exhibition industry professionals who produce, manage or supply trade shows worldwide.
Award cites rehabilitation
Michael Tom, who was paralyzed from the neck down following a surfing accident in 1990, has been named 2002 Rehabilitant of the Year for Maui by the state Department of Human Services, Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Blind Division.
Since the accident, Tom obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in social work, with assistance from the Vocational Rehabilitation Division.
In his first job as an academic support specialist with the University of Hawai'i, he helped establish a year-round youth program at Maui Community College.
Today he is a school-based behavioral health counselor at King Kekaulike High School.
'Aiea church receives grant
St. Elizabeth Church has been awarded a grant of $10,000 to be paid over two years from First Hawaiian Foundation to support their renovation project, and specifically, new stained- glass windows for the 'Aiea church.
First Hawaiian Foundation, the charitable arm of First Hawaiian Bank, contributed more than $2.2 million to more than 300 non-profit organizations in 2002.
