Posted on: Monday, June 28, 2004
Grants
Advertiser Staff
Audubon center receives grant
The Waimea Valley Audubon Center, which works to protect Waimea Valley's cultural, botanical and ecological resources, has been awarded a grant from the National Wildlife Federation's Species Recovery Fund. With the help of volunteers and students from Ho'ala School, the group will use the grant to restore habitat for the endangered Hawaiian moorhen on O'ahu.
"The Hawaiian moorhen is an endangered species, with only about 500 occurring in the wild," said Diana King, center director. "Working with volunteers and other community supporters, we plan to expand habitat opportunities for our endangered moorhen population by landscaping a new pond to provide better food and nesting vegetation."
Kids Day paper sales raise $53,267
Kids Day 2004, with the theme "What 'Ohana Means to Me" as the subject for the special edition of the Honolulu Advertiser, raised $53,267 for benefitting Parents and Children Together, according to the non-profit organization's president, Ruthann Quitiquit.
Allan Landon, president and CFO of Bank of Hawaii, served as chairman for the project, which featured such celebrities Gov. Linda Lingle and Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona joined by media personalities and other volunteers out selling special edition newspapers all over O'ahu.
The special tabloid featured winning essays, poems and drawings done by students in grades one through twelve who entered an island-wide contest.
Grants go to eight Big Island groups
The 2004 Kona Brewers Festival planning committee and The Bill Healy Foundation recently presented grant awards to eight Big Island nonprofit organizations. The recipients were the Aloha Brewers Guild, ACF Chefs de Cuisine Kona Kohala Chapter, He Kula Na Mea Hawai'i, Kohanaiki 'Ohana, Recycle Hawai'i, TREE Center, Hawai'i Montessori School at Kona and Society for Kona's Education and Art.
March of Dimes gives $10,000 The March of Dimes Hawai'i Chapter has awarded $10,000 to Malama Family Recovery Center. The grant will support the non-profit agency's outreach efforts to expand prenatal health education in Lahaina.
Malama's outreach project is the Baby S.A.F.E. program, which has been providing prevention services to pregnant women at risk for substance abuse since 1992.
Visually impaired to get playroom
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Hawaii is the recipient of a Junior League Grant. The money will be used to create a play environment for toddlers with visual impairments.
According to UCPA of Hawaii Executive Director, Donna Fouts, the project provides many ways to support child development. It was developed by Dr. Lilli Nielsen, a special education advisor for the Danish National Institute for the Blind.
Videoconference effort gets $20,000
American Savings Bank has given a $20,000 grant to Child and Family Service for its Mehana Project, a statewide videoconferencing pilot project.
The Mehana Project has set up videoconferencing stations connecting the Ewa Beach Family Center with its Child & Family Service locations on Kaua'i and O'ahu and will be setting up stations in Hilo, Kona and on Maui.
Once all the stations are up and running, videoconferencing services will be available to other nonprofits and members of the community.
Videoconferencing will provide a 10 percent to 20 percent cost savings to Child & Family Service by decreasing the need for travel by agency employees.
