The Annie Sinclair Knudsen Memorial Fund, administered by the Hawai‘i Community Foundation, awarded $150,000 in grants to 21 community-based organizations, Thursday. Recipient organizations serve Kaua‘i’s community in culture and arts, education, environment, and health and human services while promoting volunteerism
The Annie Sinclair Knudsen Memorial Fund, administered by the Hawai‘i Community Foundation, awarded $150,000 in grants to 21 community-based organizations, Thursday.
Recipient organizations serve Kaua‘i’s community in culture and arts, education, environment, and health and human services while promoting volunteerism and collaboration and have demonstrated organizational and community effectiveness, states an HCF release.
“The Annie Sinclair Knudsen Memorial Fund, which has a broad purpose to ‘support organizations that benefit the people, flora and fauna of Kaua‘i,’ was established at the HCF in 1987 by Ruth Hanner in honor of her grandmother,” said Darcie Yukimura, philanthropic services officer for HCF, in the release.
In addition to the awarding of grants, HCF took advantage of the gathering to honor Sonia
Topenio and Tad Miura Jr. for the completion of two terms on the Annie Sinclair Knudsen Advisory Committee.
“Tad and Sonia were a part of shaping Kaua‘i’s nonprofit sector with their innovative ideas and forward thinking challenges to improve the community’s ability to weather the economic storm,” said Myles Shibata, HCF Vice President of Philanthropic Services. “They have been a part of a team that has sharpened the fund’s impact and have fostered new programs into successful cornerstones of the community.”
The Annie Sinclair Knudsen Memorial Fund supports broad-based community grants programs, organizational capacity building grants for Kaua‘i’s nonproft organizations, and Kaua‘i’s participation in the Foundation’s PONO program, a nonprofit leadership program.
The HCF was established in 1916 and is a statewide, charitable services and grantmaking institution endowed with contributions from many donors. The HCF is a steward of more than 500 donor funds, including more than 150 scholarship funds, distributing charitable funds to Hawai‘i’s nonprofit organizations through a variety of programs.
HCF also serves as a resource on philanthropy, community issues and trends.
Visit www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org for more information.
