AlohaCare establishes grants
to honor the late Frank Chong

AlohaCare is seeking applications for its 2009 Community Conscience Award grant program.  Eight grants of $5,000 each are available to Hawaii nonprofit organizations working to improve the health of Hawaii’s communities.

AlohaCare created the Community Conscience Award as a tribute to a long-time community advocate, Frank Chong, who was a founding board member and manager of the organizatioon's government and community relations. Chong died on March 8, 2008. "Frank was the conscience of our community. He tirelessly devoted his life to people who are most often forgotten,” said John McComas, Chief Executive Officer of AlohaCare.

To qualify for consideration, applicants must document their nonprofit status. Projects to be funded must focus on the prevention or treatment of childhood obesity, asthma or diabetes, or provide access to care for children and adolescents. Projects must be completed within one year and grantees must submit status reports twice a year.

Projects must be duplicable in other communities and agencies may apply for more than one grant if the project will be duplicated.  Applications are due April 30.  Click here for more information on how to apply.

AlohaCare is a nonprofit, Hawaii-based health plan founded in 1994 by Hawaii’s community health centers for the purpose of serving low-income families and the medically vulnerable through government sponsored health insurance programs.  Since then AlohaCare has served Hawaii’s Medicaid population through Hawaii’s QUEST program and in 2007 began offering Medicare plans.