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Posted on: Friday, January 14, 2005

Grants

Advertiser Staff

Cooke fund gives to arboretum

The Cooke Foundation has granted $3,500 for an irrigation system upgrade at the OT Fleming Arboretum in 'Ulupalakua, Maui.

Automatic irrigation will aid in servicing 159 seedlings of 45 native plant species recently transplanted throughout the seven-acre arboretum.



First Hawaiian grant to HYSA

First Hawaiian Foundation has granted the Hawai'i Youth Symphony Association $20,000. The grant will be paid over two years and will support HYSA's concert programming.



Castle Trust aids Big Brothers site

The George P. & Ida Tenney Castle Trust has granted Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu $15,000.

The money will be used to further develop the organization's site-based mentoring programs at Jarrett Intermediate School and its efforts to provide high school students with the opportunity to volunteer their time and become friends and mentors to Hawai'i's middle-school students.



Donations made to O'ahu YWCA

The YWCA of O'ahu has received funding from a number of local organizations:

• $25,000 from the Kosasa Foundation and $5,000 from the Tahmi Brodhead Fund, for the YWCA Ways to Work family loan program.

• $5,000 from the George P. and Ida Tenney Castle Trust, for Girls' Gym, an after-school fitness program for teen girls.

• $1,000 from Castle & Cooke Hawai'i, for the Fernhurst Ho'oikipa Fund.

• $15,667 from Hawai'i Community Foundation's Organizational Capacity Building Grant program, for YWCA's capacity building project Measuring Our Mission.

• $5,000 from the Friends of Hawai'i Charities to support its Dress for Success Honolulu program. The money was raised at the January 2004 Sony Open. Dress for Success Honolulu is a program within the YWCA that helps low-income women make transitions into the work force.