Recent grants to Hawaii nonprofit organizations:
Nonprofit mortgage brokerage receives Bank of Hawaii award
Bank of Hawaii Vice President and Wealth Management Consultant William “Billy” Pieper II presented the 2009 Native Hawaiian Nonprofit award and a $5,000 grant to Michelle Kauhane, executive director of Hawaiian Community Assets, Hawaii’s only nonprofit mortgage broker.
Bank of Hawaii was proud to sponsor the award at the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement’s Eighth Annual Native Hawaiian Convention. The award recognizes an outstanding organization that demonstrates an exemplary commitment to innovation in the Native Hawaiian community.
Hawaiian Community Assets has helped many low-to-moderate income families own their first home. It provides services for home ownership education, counseling and access to mortgage credit. Since 2001, HCA has made more than 300 loans totaling more than $55 million.
Pieper, vice president and wealth management consultant in Bank of Hawaii’s Trust and Private Banking Sales Department, serves as board chairman for Alu Like and on the boards for the Financial Planning Association, Kailua Chamber of Commerce, Kamehameha Schools Alumni Association and National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisers. He was recently named Pacific Business News’s Forty Under 40 2009 Community Leader of the Year.
Other grants to Hawaii nonprofits:
The Pacific Health Research Institute has received $2.8 million from the National Cancer Institute to continue a major lung cancer screening study in Hawaii for the next two years. The Honolulu-based research institute has participated in what’s called the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial since 2002. The institute is one of just 33 screening centers in the United States participating in the study, which covers some 50,000 people.
- The nonprofit Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children has received a $5,000 grant from the Toys“R”Us Children’s Fund as part of the grand opening of Babies”R”Us in Pearl City. Toys“R”Us, Inc. and the Toys“R”Us Children’s Fund together support organizations that share in their mission to keep kids safe and help them in times of need. Kapiolani will use the grant to outfit its Newborn Intensive Care Unit with privacy screens, which are used at the incubator to provide family privacy as parents bond with their tiny newborn.
- The Women's Fund awarded a grant of $5,000 to Hina Mauka for a production by inmates at the Women's Community Correctional Center of "Love is Blind," a play on domestic violence. 48 women in Hina Mauka's Ke Alaula substance abuse treatment program created the play based on their personal experiences with intimate partner violence. Each of the women had a role in the production -- acting, singing, dancing, sewing costumes and making sets. The women inmates hope their production will make a difference for other women stuck in a cycle of domestic violence. The play will be recorded on DVD and distributed to high schools and social service agencies, as well as broadcast on Olelo.
- The Hawaii Council for the Humanities awarded $20,000 to Community Development Pacific; $10,000, Honolulu Academy of Arts; $5,000, Ka 'Imi Na'auao o Hawaii Nei; $2,500, Pualeilani Fernandez; and $2,500 to Iris Lopez and David Forbes.
- The Walmart Foundation has awarded charitable grants of $25,000 to several local organizations, including Aloha United Way; the American Red Cross, Hawaii chapter; the Children's Discovery Center; and Lanakila Rehabilitation Center.
- The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation awarded Chaminade University a $70,000 grant to support the Castle Colleagues Program for management training of pre-school directors.
- Bank of Hawaii's Maui Region raised $6,400 in fundraising efforts, which was matched with $5,000 from the Bank of Hawaii Foundation. A total of $11,400 was donated to Feed My Sheep, a mobile food program serving Haiku, Honokawai, Lahaina and Wailuku.
