YOUTH SERVICES GIVEN $600,000

The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded Hawai'i's Department of Human Services-Office of Youth Services $600,000 for its Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Program.

The program focuses on delinquency prevention and intervention and on juvenile justice improvements. That includes prevention of substance abuse, of serious and violent crime, and of gang involvement, as well as development of a system of graduated sanctions, treatment programs and aftercare. The grant was announced by U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo.

HAIG DONATES TO ART MUSEUM

Local benefactor and art collector Michael Haig has given $300,000 to the Hawai'i State Art Museum. The money will help ensure the timely completion and opening of the museum's new visitor center, which will feature a cafe, gift shop and information kiosk.

The museum also has received two grants from the LEF Foundation: $40,000 to underwrite a series of public programs designed to attract visitors and make the museum accessible to a wider audience, and $50,000 for the visitor center.

CARNEGIE GRANT TO STUDY MINORITIES

Muthiah Alagappa, an East-West Center expert on international security and political change in Asia, has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation to study internal conflicts arising from the political consciousness of minority communities in Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, northeastern India and Nepal.

NOVELL HELPS OUT PBS HAWAI'I

Novell Inc. has donated $36,895 worth of services to PBS Hawai'i. Mike McCartney, president and CEO of PBS Hawaii, said, "Software products like these help us to be productive without breaking our budget."

LOCAL DONORS AID HAWAII LITERACY

Various local donors have helped Hawaii Literacy fulfill the conditions of a matching grant by raising $325,000 before the July 1 deadline. The original challenge grant was given a year ago by the California-based Rose Perenin Foundation.

Donors were: Hawaii Pizza Hut Literacy Foundation, Verizon Reads Foundation, Pettus Foundation, Atherton Foundation, McInerny Foundation, Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Friends of Hawaii Charities, Myrtle E. Lee World Education Fund and the G. Watamull Foundation.

Proceeds from the annual fundraising Read & Write Awards Gala bolstered the fund.

DADS' GROUP GETS WEINBERG ASSIST

The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has given $10,000 to the Hawai'i Coalition for Dads, which works to increase community awareness about the importance of fatherhood. The money came from the foundation's Sharing the Joys of the Holidays project.