A new Hawai‘i foundation awards $60,000 to local nonprofits
Traders for Charity, Inc., a start-up Hawaii private foundation, approved grants totaling almost $60,000 to 11 Hawaii nonprofits at its first board of directors’ meeting in March. The awards, ranging in size from $5,000 to $7,500, will benefit communities statewide in the areas of education, health, human services and youth development. Grantees include:
- Catholic Charities Hawai‘i, for equipment and supplies for Hale Malama foster parents
- Children’s Alliance Hawai‘i, for foster care packages
- Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of Maui, for “Never Never Shake A Keiki” video
- Hawaii Youth Symphony Association, for collaborative music education project with Boys & Girls Clubhouses
- Helping Hands Hawai‘i, for Ready to Learn-Big Island
- Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition, for preconception care for teens
- ISIS Hawai‘i, for robotics kits for Lego League Hawai‘i competitions
- Institute for Human Services, for retiling its shelter kitchen
- Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, for children’s books for Pacific Islander families
- Special Olympics Hawai‘i, for support for Molokai Special Olympians
- Voyager School Foundation, for computers for classrooms
Several of the grant awards are challenge grants to the charities that require raising of matching funds. For example, the largest award, $7,500, is to Voyager School Foundation and requires a partial match of $2,500. Individuals or businesses interested in supporting the school’s drive to purchase computers for Voyager Public Charter School should contact principal Sue Deuber at (808) 521-9770.
Traders for Charity, Inc., was formed by the directors of CMT-Asia, a Honolulu-based securities trading firm. Awards are selected on need and level of local impact by the management, staff, and families of CMT-Asia. Unsolicited proposals for support are not considered. Direct inquiries to Social Currency, the foundation’s administrator, at (808) 554-1115.
