Posted on: Monday, March 28, 2005

Grants

Advertiser Staff

$1.3M from A&B boosts nonprofits

In 2004, the Alexander & Baldwin Foundation donated more than $1.3 million to 267 nonprofit organizations serving Hawai'i and the Pacific islands, to help address significant community needs and ensure a better quality of life for Hawai'i's residents.

Health and human-service organizations received $579,030 during 2004, including contributions to United Way agencies statewide totaling $300,000. These grants were supplemented by personal donations made by A&B employees and retirees.

A&B Foundation donated $210,290 to educational institutions ranging from preschools to graduate schools.

Culture and arts organizations received $196,470 in direct grants and $11,625 in matching gifts. Programs and events benefiting the broader community and quality of life across the state received $226,580 from A&B Foundation.

Awards support science students

Five University of Hawai'i departments have been awarded grants totaling more than $116,000 to support students engaged in research using the Maui High Performance Computing Center. The awardees are: Arean Ewing, molecular biosciences and bioengineering; Seung He Lee, civil and environmental engineering; Eva-Marie Nosal, geology and geophysics; Michael Paulding, information and computer sciences; and Yang Yang, meteorology.

Agua Fund helps Hawaiian council

The Agua Fund donated $5,000 to the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement's Hawaiian Way Fund. The money will support the Annual Native Hawaiian Conference and community-based organizations that focus on cultural knowledge, values and practices in education, affordable housing, healthcare, environment and economic development.

Grant given for computer system

The Bank of Hawaii Charitable Foundation donated $15,000 to Goodwill Industries to support the purchase and implementation of a wide-area network system. The system will provide more integrated communications between Goodwill's separate program and retail locations on three islands, raise the level of security for transferring information within the organization and enable the agency to maximize its limited resources.

Cades adds to Goodwill project

The Cades Foundation donated $5,000 to Goodwill in support of the wide-area network system.

Grants enable tuition assistance

KCAA Pre-schools received grants totaling $61,500 to help provide tuition assistance at its seven O'ahu preschools. The grants are: $40,000 from the McInerny Foundation, $10,000 from the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, $6,500 from the G.N. Wilcox Trust and $5,000 from Frear Eleemosynary Trust.

Mililani school earns $20K check

Castle & Cooke Hawai'i delivered a $20,000 matching check to Mililani Mauka Elementary School. The donation had been promised if the school could raise its own $20,000. The parents, teachers and students managed to raise more than $25,000 at two major fund-raising events held during 2004.

Kraft helps secure forklifts, produce

Kraft Foods pledged $90,000 in grants for Hawai'i Foodbank and its subsidiary, Maui Community Food Bank. The first grant of $50,000 will provide most of the funding for two forklifts, one on O'ahu and one on Maui. The second grant of $40,000 will help start the Maui Food Bank's Laulima Produce Program, a produce-recovery program expected to deliver up to 100,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables on Maui.

Bankoh assists teacher fund

The Pacific Teacher Scholarship Fund received a $15,000 donation from Bank of Hawai'i. The fund, created by Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, awards scholarships each year to teachers or teacher candidates who are in the process of completing an accredited preparation program.

$15,000 given to opera group

Alexander & Baldwin Foundation awarded Hawai'i Opera theatre a $15,000 grant. The money is earmarked to support the 2005 opera season and efforts to promote the "supertitles" component of the productions, the English text translations projected above the stage.

$10,000 helps in drug battle

The Ka'a'awa No Drugs Coalition, with assistance from the Kahalu'u Lions Club, was awarded a $10,000 Weinberg grant, to be used in drug education and drug prevention in the community.

The first anti-drug activity will involve Ka'a'awa, Waiahole and Kahalu'u Elementary Schools.

St. Patrick adds to tsunami relief

St. Patrick School students, faculty, staff and parents donated $2,500 toward tsunami relief efforts. Students from kindergarten through grade 8 donated $1,150.75.

The money was given to Catholic Relief Services, where 94 cents of each dollar goes directly to help survivors of the tragedy.

Foundation aids with furnishings

The Hawaii Hotel Industry Charity Walk Foundation awarded a $1,500 grant to Mental Health Kokua.

The money will be used to purchase household furnishings on the Big Island.