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Posted on: Monday, December 24, 2007

Grants

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The East-West Center was awarded a contract for $98,679 under a U.S. Agency for International Development cooperative agreement with Family Health International, to provide technical support for Vietnam's HIV national estimates and projections project for 2007 and to extend the ongoing Analysis and Advocacy project to Haiphong.

A decade ago, the East-West Center began developing computer models for tracking and projecting the spread of HIV. Today, the EWC-developed software enables national health programs throughout the region to analyze their local HIV epidemics and develop effective policy responses. EWC senior research fellow Tim Brown and teams of regional and international counterparts in Bangladesh, China, Thailand and Vietnam have implemented the continuing project.

The YWCA of O'ahu has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Bank of Hawaii to support the renovation and revitalization of Laniakea, the YWCA's Downtown location on Richards Street. The grant will be paid over two years. YWCA centers on O'ahu offer programs that empower women and girls to discover their full potential and, in turn, give back to their communities.

Alexander & Baldwin has pledged $100,000 to the Arizona Memorial Museum Association in support of the organization's capital campaign to replace the existing USS Arizona Memorial museum and visitor center. The new facility will house an expanded state-of-the-art museum, an education and research center and improved visitor space and amenities, and will serve as the gateway and central ticketing location for all of the Pearl Harbor historic sites.

The University of Hawai'i-Manoa College of Education Center for Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Education has received a grant of $750,000 from the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs. This award was made in conjunction with a legislative appropriation of $750,000 over two years to establish Ho'okulaiwi at the College of Education.

Ho'okulaiwi aims to provide programs of study in teacher education and curriculum research to prepare teachers for state Department of Education Title I schools with large numbers of Hawaiian children, for Hawaiian language immersion schools, and for Hawaiian charter schools. It also works to prepare Native Hawaiian educational leaders in areas such as curriculum research, school administration and teacher education through study at the master's and doctoral levels.

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