Grants

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Bishop Museum programs aided

Bishop Museum received several major grants recently to help pay for its educational and scientific endeavors.

The state museum's science education programs were awarded $50,000 from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

The museum also received these grants:

• $10,000 from Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation for sleepover programs.
• $10,000 from Hawaii Community Foundation's Ellen M. Koenig Memorial Fund to buy a cargo van for the Holoholo Science Program.
• $4,000 from Hawai'i Community Foundation's "Mo' Bettah Together" program for installation of a plaque at the Kalaina Wawae (footprints in stone) site at Mo'omomi, Moloka'i.
• $3,000 from Boeing Corp. for the Holoholo Science Program.
  
  
  

HCDCH money to help elderly

The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawai'i has received a three-year, $300,000 federal grant to provide critical support services for elderly and disabled clients at Pumehana and Punchbowl Homes.

HCDCH is working with the Honolulu Gerontology Program of Child and Family Service to use the grant to provide case management, group activities and transition services for clients.

The agency also works with the state Department of Human Services to offer programs that delay institutionalization for elderly clients.

Services gain from food drive

Hawaiian Electric Company employees donated more than 60 boxes of food and toiletries, more than 40 bags of rice and more than $3,200 in cash during their recent annual food drive.

Donations went to the Institute for Human Services, the Salvation Army and Angel Network Charities.