SHINING STARS
Big Brothers Big Sisters installs Morris
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu installed
Yvonne Morris as a member of its board of directors for 2007. She is currently director of development at Maryknoll School.
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Robert Fanelli, a University of Hawaii Ph.D. student, is one of eight worldwide winners to receive a $12,500 research scholarship for the 2007 Information Security Scholarship Program. The nonprofit International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium Inc. sponsored the program.
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The board of directors of the Hawaii Women's Legal Foundation awarded the following grants to support and help improve the welfare of needy women and children: $2,500 to Child and Family Service for the Westside Women's County Fair's effort to photograph and fingerprint 100 children on Kauai; $2,500 to YWCA of Kauai to assist Legal Aid of Kauai in processing legal documents for women; $2,500 to Planned Parenthood for training workshops targeting at-risk teenage girls; $7,500 to Lanakila Rehabilitation Center to continue Meals on Wheels service for senior low-income women next year; and $2,500 to Waianae Coast Christian Women's Job Corps to move and set up two portable buildings for computer and nursing lab equipment.
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