HOMELESS SHELTER AWARDED $100K

The state Office of Hawaiian Affairs recently awarded $100,000 to the Institute for Human Services homeless shelter in Iwilei. The grant will be used to provide a range of critical services to more 300 Hawaiian and part-Hawaiian guests.

Guests are provided safe shelter, three hot meals a day, storage, free clothing and hygiene supplies, and facilities in addition to services to help them stabilize their lives and end their housing crises.

MORE THAN $100K FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

Wai'anae Coast Early Childhood Services has received a $90,000 grant from the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs to provide preschool scholarships for Native Hawaiian children during the 2006-07 school year.

Also received were $12,500 from McInerny Foundation, $3,500 from G.N. Wilcox Trust, $6,000 from Frear Eleemosynary Trust and a dividend of $16,999 from an endowment granted by the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

GOODWILL GRANTED $25K FROM SERVCO

Servco Foundation has donated $25,000 to Goodwill Industries of Hawaii. The money will be used to fund the agency's Ohana Career and Learning Center in Leeward O'ahu.

The center, scheduled to open in 2008, will be a 30,000-square-foot building in Kapolei.

Also donated to Goodwill for the center was $10,000 by the Alexander & Baldwin Foundation, $25,000 by the Island Insurance Foundation, $50,000 by the David C. Ai Charitable Trust and $25,000 from the Frear Eleemosynary Trust.

HOUSING PROGRAM AWARDED $100K

The Maili Land Transitional Housing Program has received a $100,000 grant from the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs.