Posted on: Monday, March 17, 2008
Grants
Advertiser Staff
The Korean University Club is offering deserving students of Korean ancestry an $8,000 four-year scholarship to a Hawai'i college or university. Selection of recipients will be based on personal merit and financial need. Interested high school seniors should draft a letter stating why they are deserving. Include personal and family history, grade-point average, standardized test scores, family income and resources, personal challenges, community service and plans for the future. Send to: Korean University Club c/o Ge Sorensen, 989 Ka'ahue St., Honolulu, HI 96825. Deadline to apply is April 30. Follow-up interviews may be held and financial need forms, income-tax returns and references may be requested.
The Japanese Women's Society Foundation is accepting grant applications. Hawai'i nonprofit organizations and individuals pursuing goals related to the foundation's mission should apply by April 30. Grant applications and information about the foundation are available at www.jwsf.org. Grant seekers will be asked to submit a letter of inquiry with a brief project outline, desired outcome and amount needed. If the inquiry meets the guidelines, the committee will ask the applicant to submit a full proposal. Grantees will be required to submit an annual status report which will include how funds were used and the most notable project outcome.
The Chinese Catholic Club of Honolulu is awarding college scholarships to deserving Hawai'i high school seniors entering the University of Hawai'i-Manoa or Chaminade University this fall. Applicants must demonstrate financial need and be Hawai'i residents. Applications are available from high school offices or by calling Larry Lee at 487-8229 or Marianne Lum at 382-6848. The deadline to apply is June 1.
The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has awarded Easter Seals of Hawai'i a $2.1 million grant to support the construction and maintenance of the organization's new Napuakea facility in West O'ahu. The two-story, state-of-the-art complex is designed to deliver comprehensive services and programs to more than 600 infants, children, adults and seniors with disabilities and special needs.
Five University of Hawai'i departments have been awarded grants for the current academic year of more than $127,000 to support students engaged in research using the Maui High Performance Computing Center, which operates one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The awardees are: Ruey Hwu, mechanical engineering; Seung-Sep Kim, geology and geophysics; Kin Wai Leung, mechanical engineering; Erik Franklin, zoology; Jhonsen Djajamuliadi, chemistry; Paulo Calil, oceanography.
Fifteen boxes of teaching manuals and 12 boxes of children's clothing have been sent to Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands, by Triple B Forwarders. Donations were assembled by Reachout Pacific, a nonprofit that sends educational materials to Micronesia. An outpouring of donations came from students and teachers of local schools. Much of the clothing came from Shriner's Hospital.
Kapolei Property Development has donated $5,000 to the 'Ahahui Siwila Hawai'i O Kapolei (Kapolei Hawaiian Civic Club). The money will support the club's native garden at Kapolei Regional Park at the base of Pu'u O Kapolei.
The Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund has awarded a $30,000 one-year grant to Kapi'olani Women's Center to increase awareness of the life-saving benefits of early detection of breast and cervical cancer. It is the sixth year that the program has received Avon Foundation funding to support its work.
The First Tee of Oahu now serves 365 boys and girls on O'ahu, Moloka'i and Maui, thanks to money from the following national and local corporations and foundations: United States Golf Association, First Tee national headquarters, Wadsworth Golf Charities and each Wal-Mart store in Hawai'i. An additional grant from the USGA is making possible an irrigation system at the home course at Camp Homelani on the North Shore. Anyone interested in volunteering for or participating in the educational program should call Ken Zitz at 478-3466 or e-mail kwz711@hawaii.rr.com or consult www.thefirstteeoahu.org.
The state Office of Hawaiian Affairs has awarded The March of Dimes Hawaii chapter a grant to provide NICU Family Support Program services to Native Hawaiian families. The NICU program provides emotional support and information to families of extremely ill newborns who are admitted to Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children's Newborn Special Care Unit.
Lillian Too's Feng Shui Extravaganza Hawaii 2008 workshop, "How to Think Big in the Year of the Earth Rat," raised $11,273 for Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. The event was held at the Ala Moana Hotel. Over the past four years, The World of Feng Shui has raised more than $35,000 for Rehab. The workshops are held annually.
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