Posted on: Monday, September 24, 2007
Grants and awards
Advertiser Staff
ASSETS School has received a four-year, $400,000 grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. The funds will provide financial aid to twice-exceptional, low-to-moderate income students attending ASSETS.
"Twice exceptional" refers to students who have high academic potential yet struggle with learning differences.
KAMP (Kids At Risk Mentoring Program) Hawai'i has been given a grant of $5,000 by First Hawaiian Bank Foundation. The organization focuses on disadvantaged and at-risk youth.
The Robison Family Trust has presented The Children's Alliance of Hawai'i with a $40,000 grant to kick off the final public phase of the capital campaign that will help to secure a permanent home for the organization.
Walk the Talk, The Hawai'i Community Foundation's annual employee fundraising initiative, has donated $8,860 to assist several local nonprofits and community programs. They are: Ma Ka Hana Ka 'ike, a hands-on learning program in Hana, Maui; Jacqueline J.H. Bean Memorial Fund, that helps women with cancer; Poetry Slam Inc. (Hawai'i Slam), for writing and performance workshops for teens; Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation, for a stroke rehabilitation program; Book Trust, to buy books for students at Pa'ia Elementary School on Maui; Ka Makana 'o Lili'uokalani, to assist orphaned children of Hawaiian descent; Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance-Next Step Shelter, for birthday parties for children living at the shelter.
The Hawai'i People's Fund recently awarded grants totaling $25,000 to these nonprofit organizations: Drug Policy Forum of Hawai'i; Mala 'Ai Opio Organic Farm; Pohaku o Kane; Maui's Filipino Working Group; Hawai'i Island's He Ola Hou o Ke Kumu Niu; Honolulu Habitat for Humanity's Lana'i project; Paumalu Press and Street Beat and Kyabaan Association Inc. in the Philippines.
The Hawai'i Medical Service Association Foundation has approved these grants to the following organizations: Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawai'i; Hawai'i Parkinson Association; Healthcare Financial Management Association; Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawai'i; National Kidney Foundation; Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawai'i; Shriner's Hospitals for Children; University of Hawai'i, Department of Native Hawaiian Health; YMCA of Honolulu.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently awarded the Hawai'i P-20 Initiative $10 million in funding, the largest private gift to early education in the state's history. The initiative's goal is to have every third-grader in Hawai'i reading at grade level by 2015.
Young patients at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children have been enjoying an unexpected treat. Recently, about $100,000 worth of toys were shipped to the hospital's pediatric units, courtesy of Kids Wish Network, a Holiday, Fla.-based national charity dedicated to infusing hope, creating happy memories and improving children's quality of life.
The VH1 Save The Music Foundation, with the help of Oceanic Time Warner Cable and the University of Phoenix, has donated $100,000 worth of new musical instruments to restore four public school music education programs. The foundation will continue to work with Oceanic Time Warner Cable to ensure that all students in the Hawai'i public schools receive the benefits of music education.
Parents and Children Together has awarded Pacific Resources for Education and Learning a five- year, $150,000 contract as the external evaluator for the Hawai'i Parental Information and Resource Center, which will be implemented in 21 public schools across the state. HPIRC aims to get parents involved in their children's education and to foster partnerships among parents, teachers, administrators and other school personnel.
Kiewit Building Group Inc., a general contractor, recently made a $5,000 donation to Kapolei Public Library. The money was used to present a series of musical performances inside the library on Wednesday evenings.
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has donated $5,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu's school-mentoring programs. The grant was awarded in recognition of the services provided by 26 'Iolani students in grades nine to 12 who volunteered as mentors to children from Ala Wai Elementary School.
The G.N. Wilcox Trust has awarded a $10,000 grant to Chaminade University for purchase and installation of multimedia switchboxes in classrooms across campuses. The devices will allow for easy switching among devices in the classrooms.
Architects Hawaii Ltd. has donated $60,000 to the University of Hawai'i School of Architecture. The money will assist students in the practicum program, which enables them to spend a semester with a firm in Asia or on the Mainland and a semester with a local firm.
Correction: The Children’s Alliance of Hawai'i received a $40,000 grant from the Robison Family Trust. The name of the trust was misspelled in a listing in a previous version of this story.
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