Posted on: Sunday, February 24, 2008
Grants
Advertiser Staff
Several local businesses recently raised a record $36,000 toward medical care for needy and homeless children. Longs Drugs and UHA contributed $7,000, along with commercial airtime, ad space and other support; Safeway Foundation gave $2,500 and Hawaii Medical Service Association $2,000.
Canisters displayed at Longs Drugs statewide brought in nearly $15,000 of the total $24,500 raised through shoppers' contributions. Outrigger Shops Ltd. has raised $6,500 to date. Times Supermarkets, Hilo Hattie and L&L Drive-Inn were among the 30 retailers who displayed 554 canisters at their 95 locations during the fundraiser.
Volunteers tapped to label, organize or distribute the canisters included sailors from the Naval Submarine Training Center and members of Kiwanis Club of Honolulu and Central Y Service Club. Employees of Bank of Hawaii-Kapahulu counted the proceeds.
The University of Hawai'i will receive $50,000 in federal money for the Richardson School of Law. The money will aid in designing an innovative program serving low-income and working-class residents of Hawai'i and the Pacific region. The aim will be to produce legal advocates who will help their communities.
The Healing Our Island Community Grant Fund awarded The Ka'u Music Workshop Scholarship Committee a $2,000 grant that enabled 12 Big Island youths to attend the Kahumoku 'Ohana Hawaiian Music & Lifestyle Workshop. The students had the opportunity to work with top Island musicians and to perform with their mentors.
For a second year, the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs is supporting the efforts of the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's William S. Richardson School of Law's 'Ahahui o Hawai'i to conduct Law School Admission Test workshops for Native Hawaiians. Since OHA funded this initiative, there has been a noteworthy increase in the number of Native Hawaiians applying to and gaining admission to the law school.
The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, on the recommendation of the Rotary Club of Honolulu, has granted $10,000 to Waikiki Health Center to purchase medical equipment to outfit its new Mobile Clinic. The federally funded "clinic on wheels" will enable the Center's Care-A-Van Homeless Outreach Program to increase its level of healthcare to its clients.
