Posted at 3:14 p.m., Monday, December 10, 2007
A&B Foundation awards $75K to Hale Kipa nonprofit
Advertiser Staff
The Alexander & Baldwin Foundation has awarded $75,000 to Hale Kipa, a nonprofit agency that provides programs for at-risk youth, to help fund the construction of a comprehensive support center and campus of residential shelters.Christopher J. Benjamin, vice president and treasurer of A&B Foundation, presented the first of three $25,000 installments to Hale Kipa's Board of Directors. Founded in 1992, the Alexander & Baldwin Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life in communities in which employees live and work.
Hale Kipa serves more than 3,600 at-risk children, adolescents and young adults and their families throughout the islands each year. The target populations of the various youth service programs administered by Hale Kipa include: homeless and runaway youth, status offenders, pregnant teens, youth offenders supervised by the courts, youth served by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health systems and the Child Welfare Division of the Department of Human Services, youth awaiting foster home placement and youth that otherwise have nowhere else to turn.
