SHINING STARS
Grants awarded for humanities projects
The
Hawaii Council for the Humanities awarded funding to the following organizations for their humanities projects: $15,000 to
Hawaii Architectural Foundation for "Hawaii's Forgotten Japanese Temples"; $14,000 to
Judiciary History Center for "When the Military Ruled: Military Rule in Hawaii 1941-1944," an education and dialogue-based multimedia project; $10,000 to
Children's Literature Hawaii for its "Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Literature and Hawaii's Children"; $10,000 to
Honolulu Academy of Arts for the exhibit "The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan"; $10,000 to the
Matsunaga Charitable Foundation for a documentary, "Holding Fast the Dream: Hawaii's African-American Experience"; $5,000 to
Bishop Museum for "Digitization of Finding Aids for Audio Collection" to preserve 60 years of Native Hawaiian oral tradition; and $2,000 to
Temple University Press in support of the publication of "Unequal Hawaii: Ethnic Inequality in Hawaii," by Dr. Jonathan Okumura, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The
Jitsuo Yoshimori Trust gave $30,000 to
Imua Family Services, which provides therapeutic services to children and families in Maui and Lanai.
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