Grants and awards
Advertiser Staff
Volunteer group gets three grants
Assistance League of Hawaii, a non-profit all-volunteer philanthropic organization, has been awarded a $50,000 grant to be received in two installments from the Cooke Foundation and a $10,000 grant from the Atherton Foundation to remodel its new Community Service property. A $2,000 grant was received from the Junior League for Operation School Bell, an Assistance League of Hawaii philanthropic program.
Goodwill gets $10,000
The Verizon Foundation has given $10,000 to Goodwill Industries of Hawaii for the purchase of an automated point-of-sale system to support the agency's donation and retail division on O'ahu and in Hilo. It will allow Goodwill to streamline daily retail operations.
Upcountry event raises $25,000
The 12th annual " 'Ulupalakua Thing" held April 24 raised about $25,000 for 4-H and Maui Community College's culinary arts and agricultural programs. More than 6,000 people ventured to Upcountry Maui to experience the state's longest running agricultural showcase and food festival.
Festival-goers consumed more than 2,000 portions of Caesar salad at the Maui Culinary Academy and Farm Bureau booth, along with barbecue beef sandwiches by the Maui Cattlemen Association. The event is sponsored by 'Ulupalakua Ranch and Tedeschi Vineyards.
Actus creates UH scholarship
The College of Engineering at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa recently received a commitment through the University of Hawai'i Foundation for $30,800 from Actus Lend Lease, a community redevelopment firm in Hawai'i, to establish the Actus Lend Lease Outstanding Civil & Environmental Engineering Scholarship fund. The fund will be used to recruit and retain Hawai'i students to study civil and environmental engineering at the College of Education.
Church school gets $2,500
United Church of Christ-Judd Street has been awarded a grant of $2,500 from the First Hawaiian Foundation, the charitable arm of First Hawaiian Bank.
The grant will be used for expenses associated with capital renovation projects for the church's Pali Preschool located on its grounds.
"Successful completion of our capital campaign will result in a safer, more accessible church and school," said the Rev. Dr. Charles Buck, pastor of UCC-Judd Street.
