Grants
Advertiser Staff
Design company awards grants
Group 70 International, one of Hawai'i's largest planning, architecture and interior firms, has given grants to community groups in various categories:
- Culture: African American Culture, $2,500; Ka'ala Farms, $5,500; Mo'ili'ili Community Center, $5,000; Pa'i Foundation, $4,500; Waikalualoko Fishpond, $4,500.
- Housing & Community Development: O'okala Community Center, Big Island, $8,000.
- Environment: Kona Living Ahupua'a, Big Island, $5,000; Windward Ahupua'a Alliance-Ko'olau Greenbelt, $5,000.
- Design: Rotary Club Waimea, Big Island, $5,000; UH Foundation DOE Classroom, $7,000 plus a promise of in-kind contribution of design expertise.
- Education: Kualoa-He'eia Ecumenical Youthi KEY, $5,000; Pacific & Asian Affairs Council, $3,000.
Group 70 raised more than $60,000 within the company to fund the foundation, designed to support activities that contribute to better living in Hawai'i.
Makaha group wins support
Hoa 'aina O Makaha has been awarded $2,000 from First Hawaiian Foundation, the charitable arm of First Hawaiian Bank, for its educational workshops.
Hoa 'aina O Makaha seeks to increase cooperation between individuals and support community self-reliance by promoting productive use of the land within an environmentally and culturally sensitive context.
Youths going to volunteer camp
Mix It Up, a national activism initiative run by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Study Circles Resource Center, has awarded 10-year-old Graham Hines a $250 grant to allow him and other students at Camp Kokua to participate in The Linus Project. Campers, counselors and parents will make "security blankets" to donate to children at local hospitals.
Camp Kokua was formed to give Wahiawa youth a chance to make positive changes in their community.
Cancer cause raises $1.29 million
Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society's nationwide signature activity, was held this year in 22 Hawai'i communities. The event raised a record-breaking $1.29 million.
Communities from Kapa'au and Kaunakakai on the Neighbor Islands to urban Salt Lake and Manoa took up the fight and drew hundreds of people touched by cancer. The communities set their own fund-raising goals and stretched to outdo themselves.
Church gets outreach money
Saints Peter & Paul Church Outreach Program has received $1,000 from the Honolulu branch of Smith Barney. The money was donated through Citigroup Foundation as part of a program conducted by Smith Barney branches across the country.
Lana'i seniors getting helpers
The Corporation for National and Community Service has awarded the Department of Human Services $7,964 to help enroll two part-time senior companions at the Lana'i Public Health Nursing Office.
The volunteers are part of the department's Senior Companion Program, which assists more than 600 elders statewide, saving the state as much as $3 million in institutionalization.
On Lana'i, three senior companions care for nine frail, elderly clients, providing personal care, home management, socialization, companionship and respite to family caregivers.
Statewide, the SCP serves 600 to 650 clients per year. In the 2003 fiscal year, 145 senior companions devoted more than 117,000 hours to caring for clients.
$35,000 going to school supplies
Ready to Learn, a nonprofit organization that provides Hawai'i's needy school children with school supplies, has received nearly $35,000 in contributions from Aloha Airlines this year. Aloha employees donated $15,000 of that as part of their annual collection drive.
Aloha Airlines donated the remaining $20,000 through in-kind shipping services, which makes it possible to provide school supplies to the Neighbor Islands.
