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Ala Kualoa
550 Halekauwila Street, Honolulu, HI 96813
Ala Kuola; $278,000. Ala Kuola, a nonprofit organization, assists victims of domestic abuse to obtain temporary restraining orders/protective orders against their abuser in Family Court. Ala Kuola helps fill in the gaps in our state system, which is limited by resources and competing demands. It offers victims intake services throughout the business day, travels to victims who are disabled or incapacitated, assists individuals with completion of the restraining order documents, processes documents with the Court, appears in Court to help draft the Court’s orders and assists with the service of process. Other then the state agency charged with providing restraining order services, Ala Kuola is the only private organization that provides domestic abuse restraining order services on Oahu. Due to a lack of resources, the state provides domestic abuse restraining order services on a restrictive schedule, appointments must be pre-set and the service is only offered once a day at 8:00 a.m. Ala Kuola’s accessibility accommodates individuals who for logistical reasons such as childcare, fleeing from one’s abuser, and transportation, would not be able to fulfill the restrictive schedule and therefore may forego seek a protective Court order for themselves and their children.
Archinoetics
700 Bishop Street, Suite 2000, Honoulu, HI 96813
Project NIU; $500,000. Project NIU (Nature Imparts Understanding) is a project to expand a K-12 science curriculum that provides students and teachers with hands-on experience with the ocean. By deploying and tracking a high tech ocean drift buoy called a “Niu,” the Hawaiian word for “coconut,” students develop an understanding of mankind's impact on the watershed. Students deploy the Niu from coastal locations and track it online throughout the school year as it travels around the ocean. Additional activities during the curriculum include (a) two field trips to the location during which the children help clean up the beach and catalog the trash they find and (b) an engineering experience where professional engineers visit the classes to discuss aspects and tradeoffs of the sensor design. In 2008, the curriculum was expanded, the sensor package redesigned, and three updated sensors were launched and have already traveled approximately 400 miles each as of the end of February 2009. Global interest in the project has led to its inclusion in the Google Earth package. With this additional funding, the project seeks to increase the scope and depth of the curriculum, reduce manufacturing costs, extend the reach of the program to over 400 students, and further develop a model for project self-sustainment.
Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Inc.
1275 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309
Boys and Girls Clubs of America; $100,000,000.
This request is to fund the Boys and Girls Club of America at $100,000,000. The Boys and Girls Clubs of America provide a safe, constructive and fun after school environment designed to help youth develop the life long tools for success. Funding specifically allows the Clubs to provide vital gang, drug and alcohol prevention programs, education and computer literacy as well arts, sports and leadership programs for young people 6-18 years of age.
Girl Scouts of the USA
420 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018
Girl Scouts Beyond Bars; $1,500,000.
Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (GSBB) provides girls an opportunity to visit their incarcerated mothers to take part in a mother/daughter Girl Scout meeting. Through GSBB, mothers lead troop meetings and develop skills in leadership, conflict resolution and parenting, which are critical to their success in family life and employment after incarceration. GSBB also provides programming to mothers in pre-release and post-release transitional facilities to help strengthen the mother/daughter bond and to help prevent recidivism of the mothers. This program also supports the Girl Scouts in Detention Centers (GSDC) program, which provide girls who have been adjudicated, are wards of the court, or are court-referred delinquents, with opportunities to participate in activities that help them cultivate a positive value system, a strong social conscience and critical life-skills needed to become healthy, productive women. GSBB and GSDC are both designed to help these youth develop life skills and strong values, and reduce recidivism rates for youth. These programs are also cost efficient as the annual per girl cost of a GSBB program is approximately $2,000; the average cost of detaining a juvenile is $35,000.
Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center
P.O. Box 3950, Honolulu, HI 96812
Human Rights Alliance; $500,000.
This project would provide legal assistance to a vulnerable population, impoverished immigrants. The Hawaii Immigrant Justice Center, Salvation Army, Sex Abuse Treatment of Hawaii, Pacific Survivors Center and federally-qualified health centers in Hawaii are teaming up to create the Human Rights Alliance. The Alliance will serve indigent immigrants who have been abused, tortured, trafficked or victimized. The Alliance will provide access to justice with an emphasis on legal assistance but it will also provide medical, case management and social services. The goals of the Alliance are to end human slavery through direct legal services, community education, outreach and collaboration with law enforcement officials. In addition to providing legal services, the Alliance will give safe haven to individuals persecuted in their home countries, promote family unity and provide comprehensive services to low-income immigrants. About two-thirds of impoverished immigrants who receive free legal services are victims of trafficking, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. By providing access to justice, this will help a vulnerable population, decrease hospital expenditures for uninsured immigrants, decrease the time on public benefits, lessen involvement in crime and susceptibility to crime, stabilize family relations and create more tax-paying legal residents.
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
46-007 Lilipuna Road, Kaneohe, HI 96744
Science of Tropical Marine Reserves; $2,250,000.
This request will support research in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Being able to monitor and study pristine ecosystems is essential during a time of global climate change (increasing ocean temperature and ocean acidification) as well as increasing anthropogneic change due to factors such as overfishing, increased sediment runoff and increasing pollution from various sources. Thus, the primary goal is to develop best practices for the conservation, maintenance and management of healthy coral reef ecosystems in Hawaii and globally. The research thus far has led to several major discoveries including new species of coral and marine life and promises to yield extraordinary information in the future.
Hawaii State Judiciary
P.O. Box 3498, Honolulu, HI 96811
Zero to Three; $300,000.
This request would continue the development of the specialized Honolulu Court Team for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers, a multidisciplinary initiative that includes child development experts, case workers, attorneys, health care and other service providers to ensure the best possible care and decisions for infants and toddlers entering foster care. These very young children are placed in foster care, often moving from home to home because no one involved in overseeing their care understands how damaging this is to children’s developing brains. But damaging it is: these young children are six times more likely than the general population to have developmental delays that can lead to negative life outcomes such as substance abuse, welfare dependence, academic failure, and developmental or physical disabilities. In addition, experiencing abuse or neglect as a child increases the likelihood of arrest as a juvenile by 59%, as an adult by 28%, and for violent crime by 30%. The goal of the Court Team is to bring the science of early childhood development, skills and services to juvenile and family courts.
Oceanic Institute
41-202 Kalanianaole Highway, Waimanalo, HI 96795
Hawaii Fisheries Development Program; $750,000.
The Hawaii Fisheries Development program generates new information, technologies, and products to assist fishery management and marine aquaculture development in Hawaii and throughout the U.S. Requested funds will be used to scale-up hatchery technologies for pilot production of reef ornamentals and other food fish species. A rising demand for seafood and static supplies of wild stocks has created a compelling case for strengthening marine aquaculture in the U.S. The amount of seafood we consume in Hawaii from aquaculture has doubled since 1990 making this research all the more important. The emerging offshore industry in Hawaii continues to rely on this program in part for eggs and fingerlings. The program has shown preliminary success in resolving key bottlenecks to rearing species with extremely small eggs and larvae. This has created new opportunities to culture a broader range of marine fish including snappers and many highly sought ornamental coral reef species, ultimately preserving our reefs. New hatchery technologies for such species will help grow the domestic seafood production industry, protect and enhance the wild fishery, and provide an alternative to wild collection for the billion dollar trade in coral reef species.
University of Hawaii at Hilo
200 W. Kawili Street, Universal Classroom Building Rm. 304,
Hilo, HI 96720
Establishment of a Hawaii Natural Estuarine Reserve; $100,000.
This project would help fund the process for establishing a State of Hawai‘i National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR), in partnership with the State of Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources and Coastal Zone Management Program, and full engagement of the local community. The University of Hawaii at Hilo will be responsible for leading a comprehensive site selection process, preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement and management plan, and basic characterization of the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the proposed site. NERR sites help communities develop strategies to deal successfully with coastal resource issues. Reserves also provide outreach on estuarine issues of concern in their local communities, offer field classes for K-12 students, and support teachers through professional development programs in marine education. Reserves also provide long-term water quality monitoring as well as opportunities for both scientists and students to conduct research in a “living laboratory.” The only region not covered by the network of reserves is the insular one: Hawaiian Islands, Western Pacific Island, Eastern Pacific Island. As such, this represents the only missing link in this comprehensive national network of NERR sites. Hawaii is unique in both its ecological and cultural diversity, providing critical model in the understanding of intersecting issues of culture, climate change, coral reef health, and marine, aquatic, and terrestrial biodiversity.
University of Hawaii Office of Research Services
2530 Dole Street, Sakamaki Hall D-200, Honolulu, HI 96822
Hawaii Innocence Project; $600,000.
This request would continue the operations of the Hawai'i Innocence Project which provides pro bono assistance to Hawaii prisoners with credible claims of factual innocence. The Hawaii Innocence Project works to free wrongly convicted felons. In addition, students get real court experience along with the potential to dramatically change a person’s life.
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