Verizon Wireless is giving HopeLine 2012 grants totaling $15,000 to two local domestic violence groups.
Recipients are the Joyful Heart Foundation, which will use the money for staffing and supplies for Kukui Center Wellness Day in Kona, and the Domestic Violence Action Center in Honolulu, for production support and event sponsorship for "Anatomy of a Survivor’s Journey," a photo and voice exhibition documenting survivors’ experience of healing.
HopeLine is a cellphone recycling program that collects wireless phones, batteries and accessories in any condition from any carrier. Verizon Wireless donates the refurbished phones, with prepaid airtime, to domestic violence prevention agencies for use by clients. By dialing #HOPE from any Verizon Wireless phone on its nationwide network, victims of domestic violence can access professional support quickly and confidentially from the National Domestic Violence Hotline (800-799-SAFE).
Verizon, through HopeLine, provided nearly $1.6 million in grants this year to domestic violence organizations across the country.
Other grants
» Students from Mililani High School’s National History Club presented the Hawaii Council for the Humanities with a check for $5,000 from the Weinberg Foundation after completing more than 100 hours of volunteer work benefiting Hawaii History Day.
Through "Educating the Heart," a program sponsored by the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, students under the supervision of teacher Amy Perruso worked with a small group of fourth- and fifth-graders at Mililani Waena Elementary School. They helped with the History Day curriculum and with completing projects for the district-level History Day fair in February at Mililani High.
The students earned a $5,000 Weinberg Foundation grant and officially awarded the check to the Hawaii Council for the Humanities. History Day is a signature program of the council.
» The Big Island’s Mokuaikaua Food Pantry received $10,000 in Walmart’s "12 Days of Giving" holiday campaign.
Walmart awarded a total of $100,000 nationwide to 10 nonprofits, which were nominated for their work addressing hunger in their communities.
» Coffman Engineers employees, including those in Honolulu, raised $10,600 for the American Red Cross Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund. Employees contributed $5,300 of this amount, and the company matched those donations.
In addition to Honolulu, Coffman Engineers has offices in Los Angeles, Seattle, Anchorage, Alaska, Hagatna, Guam, and Spokane, Wash.
» The Hawaii Branch of the International Dyslexia Association received four grants totaling $80,000 in support of its Odyssey and Public Awareness Projects.
Trustees of the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation made its $25,000 grant in memory of Nancy J. Walker, a strong supporter of the dyslexia association who served as honorary chairwoman for many of its annual fundraising events.
The other three grants were from the Atherton Family Foundation, the Hawaii Pizza Hut Literacy Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation and the Thomas J. Long Foundation.
