LIHU‘E — Thirty-three community organizations shared in a total of $150,000, which were distributed Thursday during a gathering coordinated by the Hawai‘i Community Foundation at Duke’s at Kalapaki Beach. The Annie Sinclair Knudsen Memorial Fund distributed $150,00 in grants to 33
LIHU‘E — Thirty-three community organizations shared in a total of $150,000, which were distributed Thursday during a gathering coordinated by the Hawai‘i Community Foundation at Duke’s at Kalapaki Beach.
The Annie Sinclair Knudsen Memorial Fund distributed $150,00 in grants to 33 community-based organizations who serve Kaua‘i’s community in culture and arts, education, environmental and health and human services, states a release from the Hawai‘i Community Foundation.
The organizations selected for this year’s grant awards promote volunteerism, collaboration and have demonstrated organizational and community effectiveness.
The Annie Sinclair Knudsen Memorial Fund, which has a broad purpose to “support organizations which benefit the people, flora and fauna of Kaua‘i,” was established at the Hawai‘i Community Foundation in 1987 by Ruth Knudsen Hanner in honor of her grandmother.
The Annie Sinclair Knudsen Memorial Fund supports broad based community grant programs, organization capacity building grants for Kaua‘i’s nonproft organizations, and Kaua‘i’s participation in the Foundation’s PONO and HELP programs, both nonprofit leadership programs.
This year’s recipients include Chamber Music Hawai‘i (forging alliances with Kaua‘i music educators), Hawai‘i Youth Symphony Association (Music Alive: Kaua‘i Listen & Learn Educational Concerts), Honolulu Theatre for Youth (HTY’s Theatre for Neighbor Island Youth – Kaua‘i Tour 2012/2013), Kaua‘i Historical Society (Preserving the History of Kaua‘i Sugar: Kekaha Plantation), Storybook Theatre of Kaua‘i (Broadcast on Web, Radio, and TV Media for Kaua‘i families), Girl Scouts of Hawai‘i (Girl Scout Leadership Development After School Hours Program, Hawai‘i Literacy (Kaua‘i Adult Literacy Program), Kapa‘a High School (Virtual Enterprise Business Simulation), Garden Island Resource Conservation and Development (KRCP), The Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i (Protecting Kaua‘i’s Native Forests), Kaua‘i Hospice (Share the Care program), Project Vision Hawai‘i (Improved Health Outreach with Community Capacity Building and Research), YWCA of Kaua‘i (Hi‘ilei Kaua‘i improving prenatal outcomes and healthy beginnings for newborns), Easter Seals Hawai‘i (Kaua‘i Early Intervention Program), Parents and Children Together (Kaua‘i Family Visitation Center), Special Olympics Hawai‘i (Project Unify Kaua‘i), The Salvation Army (Hanapepe and Lihu‘e Corps Soup Kitchen and food pantries), Women in Need (Bridge II Success), YWCA of Kaua‘i (Victim/Survivor Treatment for Children), Legal Aid Society of Hawai‘i (Legal Assistance for Kaua‘i’s kupuna), Island School (Island School community garden), Lihu‘e Lutheran Church (Mobile Munchies, Kokua Kitchen), Kaua‘i Habitat for Humanity (Repair and Renovation Program), Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Honolulu (Kaua‘i Mentoring Programs), Hale ‘Opio (Kaua‘i Teen Court), Hawai‘i Children’s Theatre (Pono Players, Peer Education Theatre), Kaua‘i Independent Food Bank (Kaua‘i Westside Keiki Cafe), Kaua‘i Robotics Alliance (Support for Robotics at all Kaua‘i middle and high schools), Kaua‘i Underground Artist (KUGA Visual Arts Scholarship Program), Leadership Kaua‘i (Expanded Leadership Training at Kapa‘a High School) and Young Life (Young Life Kaua‘i Capernaum).
The Hawai‘i Community Foundation, with 96 years of community service, is the leading philanthropic institution in the state.
The Foundation is a steward of more than 600 funds, including more than 160 scholarship funds, created by donors who desire to transform lives and improve communities.
In 2011, more than $44 million in grants and contracts were distributed throughout the state. The Foundation also serves as a resource on community issues and trends in the nonprofit sector.
See www.HawaiiCommunityFoundation.org for more information.
