Posted on: Sunday, September 23, 2007
Grants and awards
Advertiser Staff
The Hawai'i Farm Federation has received a $450,000 grant from the Regional Economic Transition Assistance Hawai'i program. The money will help a statewide program for radio frequency identification devices that will track boxes of produce through the food supply chain, from farms to retail grocery stores.
Also received from RETAH was a $500,000 grant by a Kaua'i farm group managed by Joe Munechika. The money will be used to restore agricultural water systems to abandoned sugar lands adjacent to the Pacific Missile Range in western Kaua'i.
Saint Louis High School students raised more than $3,000 and collected more than 500 pounds of books to send to their sister Catholic Marinist school, Our Lady of Nazareth Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya. Throughout the Lenten season, the students gave up their lunch money so that the students in Nairobi would have some food to eat.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has awarded an $80,000 grant to Parents and Children Together for the development of a Native Hawaiian culture-based curriculum for perpetrators of domestic violence. The grant, applicable to residents of O'ahu, will include design and pilot testing of the intervention, along with project evaluation in partnership with PACT's Family Peace Center and Dr. Vali Kalei Kanuha, associate professor of sociology at University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Kahu David Kaupu will serve as the project's cultural expert.
The 2007 First Hawaiian Bank REHAB Gold Challenge drew 300 players to the Hawaii Prince Golf Club recently, netting $233,165 for the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. The major fundraiser was led by Anthony Guerrero Jr., tournament chair, and Michael Irish, honorary chair.
Five First Hawaiian Bank Fellows will benefit from tournament proceeds by furthering their education. They are: occupational therapist Koko DeRyke; speech therapist Robin Palama; physical therapist Dawn Nakamura; and registered nurses Feme Alvarado and Erin Teranishi.
The ninth annual Hale 'Aina 'Ohana Gold Tournament recently raised more than $30,000 for culinary education. The tournament was sponsored by Better Brands/Grand Crew Wine Merchants and American Express, Pacific Transportation Lines, First Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu magazine, Sprint Hawai'i, Datum and Times Super Market.
The daylong golf outing featured food served by Roy's, Chai's Island Bistro, Sansei Seafood Restaurant and Sushi Bar, The Pint Size Corporation, Murphy's Bar and Grill, The Cheesecake Factory, Olive Tree Cafe, Compadres and Times Supermarket.
The 29th annual Visitor Industry Charity Walk sponsored by the Hawai'i Hotel & Lodging Association recently raised $1,085,138. Some 10,067 walkers on O'ahu, Maui, Kaua'i, Moloka'i, Lana'i and the Big Island participated to raise money for Hawai'i charities.
Hawai'i's accounting firms and professionals have together contributed more than $500,000 to the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa toward the establishment of the Donald A. Corbin Distinguished Professorship in Accounting.
A highly regarded professor since 1961, Corbin has been an inspiration to many faculty and students. He retired in 1989, but has continued to advise the School of Accountancy, serving on its advisory board and helping to guide the redevelopment of its curriculum.
American Savings Bank recently presented a $20,000 grant to the Mala 'Ai Opio Community Food Security Initiative and Wai'anae Community Re-Development Corporation. The funds will support the Ke Ala Ho'oulu 'Ai workforce training and higher education initiative.
WCRC is a community-based economic development organization that focuses on creating sustainable employment and business opportunities for Wai'anae residents. MA'O Fair was established to address the hunger and nutrition problems in Wai'anae by developing a comprehensive local food system.
A number of foundations and companies have made generous donations to Goodwill Industries of Hawaii to fund its Ohana Career and Learning Center in Kapolei. The center will house workforce development and job placement classrooms, a community access and resource room and a retail store. It is due to open in 2008.
Donated were: $25,000 by Hawaiian Telcom; $20,000 by the Sophie Russell Testamentary; $10,000 by The Pettus Foundation; $6,000 by First Insurance Company; $1,200 by Outrigger Enterprises; $1,000 by Oceanic Time Warner Cable; $1,000 by Grace Pacific Corporation.
The House of Representatives gave a $6,854 check and 5,656 pounds of canned goods to Hawaii Foodbank. Legislators and staff collected money and canned goods in a friendly competition that was won by the House sergeant-at-arms.
The Haseko Training Fund has awarded a $50,000 grant to The Building Industry Foundation in support its workforce development efforts. The grant will afford adults in the 'Ewa district the chance to take part in ComPACT, a pre-apprenticeship construction project.
First Hawaiian Foundation has awarded a $2,500 grant to The Hawai'i Education Association to assist it in sponsoring the annual Creative Writing Festival.
The Honolulu Board of Realtors has donated $10,000 to the Hawai'i Weed and Seed Program, a federal initiative that combines local and federal law enforcement and community support to eradicate crime and rejuvenate depressed areas of the island.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to The Cancer Screening and Education Program at Hawaii Medical Center for the purpose of expanding its breast cancer screening to medically underserved women between 40 and 49 years of age.
The University of Hawai'i Women's Campus Club has announced 11 grants totaling $16,488 earmarked for UH departments for needs not covered by the 2007 budgets. The funds are profits from the club thrift shop and Exchange newsletter.
Recipients are Windward Community College, Hamilton Library, the Law Library, Sinclair Library, UH Library Services, Education Foundations, Kennedy Theater and Dance, International Student Services and Kapi'olani Community College.
The E.L. Wiegand Foundation of Reno, Nev., has awarded Saint Francis High School a $156,978.03 grant. The funds will be used to improve the chemistry, biology and physics laboratories.
Chevron Texaco Hawai'i Educational Fund has awarded Wai'alae Elementary Public Charter School a $1,000 grant to help develop science enrichment activities in its fourth-grade Hawaiian curriculum.
The Mary D. and Walter F. Frear Eleemosynary Trust has awarded a $52,000 grant to Hawai'i Theatre Center to retain its education director. The trust awarded a grant of the same amount last year to enable the theater to hire a director to establish the Hawai'i Young Actors Ensemble for students K-12.
Kiewit Building Group, a leading general contractor, recently donated $5,000 to Kapolei Public Library. The funds were used to present a series of evening musical performances in the library.
Actor Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keely, donated $100,000 to the nonprofit organization Hawaii 3R's earlier this year to help replace an unsafe playground at Hanalei Elementary School. Hawaii 3R's provided a $47,800 grant toward the project.
Hawaii 3R's ensures that 100 percent of a donation for improvement to a specific school goes to accomplish the goal in a timely manner.
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