2023 Public Education GrantsTotal: $2,676,915
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50CAN | Core organizational support for HawaiiKidsCAN, an education advocacy organization committed to ensure that Hawaiʻi has an excellent and equitable public education system | $285,000 |
Associated Builders & Contractors | “Building Hawaiʻi Together” Skilled Trades Project to increase participation in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting and roofing | $60,000 |
Boys & Girls Club of Hawaiʻi | Own Your Own Future Initiative: What’s Next Initiative Parent Engagement | $50,000 |
ConnectED | Provide support to ConnectED: the National Center for College and Careers to design, test and launch the first phase of a community of practice for small high schools in rural and remote regions of Hawaiʻi | $95,000 |
Chamber of Commerce Hawaiʻi | To support Campbell Complex Middle School to career alignment through sector partnerships | $20,000 |
Hawaiʻi Afterschool Alliance | To support a developmental evaluation of the Community Schools model in twelve participating public schools | $75,000 |
Hawaiʻi Electricians Training Fund | Interim Credential Pre-Apprenticeship Program and Recruitment Expansion | $100,000 |
HI FusionED | To move key elements of coding education and career pipelines forward, including teacher training and career exposure/mentorship, specifically targeting elementary and middle schools | $80,000 |
‘Iolani School | Own Your Own Future Initiative: ‘Iolani School KA’I Program: Family Engagement & Vocational Learning Opportunities | $50,000 |
James B. Castle High School | Own Your Own Future Initiative: Differentiating the CHS Work-based Learning Continuum to Meet the Aspirations of All Students | $37,932 |
Kalaheo High School | To strengthen the quality of the Natural Resource Pathway | $20,000 |
Kauaʻi Economic Development Board | To develop high-quality island-wide advisory boards that support area high schools and the related career academies | $20,000 |
Kohala High School | Own Your Own Future Initiative: It Takes a Village Project | $25,000 |
Lanakila Pacific | Lanakila Pacific Career Path Program, a new form of work-based learning support for young people with mild to moderate autism | $133,083 |
Leadership Institute | Laying the Foundation for Middle Level Education Magic: Strengthening Public Middle Schools in Hawaiʻi | $130,000 |
Mākaha Cultural Learning Center | To expand PV installation training through STRIVE (Sustainability Through Renewable Impact-Driving Vocational Education) | $60,000 |
Project Vision Hawaiʻi | To provide free hearing screenings for youth as a complement to Project Vision Hawaiʻi’s already successful vision screening program, support the transition from private funding to public reimbursement for the project, and support partner organizations in learning how to implement a similar model for dental and behavioral health screenings | $120,000 |
Teach for America | An unsolicited grant to Teach for America – Hawaiʻi to honor the life and memory of Hawaiʻi Island complex area superintendent Art Souza | $10,000 |
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Introducing High School Students to Population-Based Cancer Research in Hawaiʻi | $25,000 |
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | To ensure each DOE district has a strong regional intermediary partner for work-based learning and to build a new data and accountability system around the new statewide education attainment goal adopted by the Hawaiʻi P-20 Council | $797,900 |
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Own Your Own Future Initiative: Kupu o Ke Koʻolau – Kaikuaʻana/Kaikaina Mentorship Program | $50,000 |
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Honolulu Community College (HonCC) Summer CTE Academy (2024, 2025) | $100,000 |
University of Virginia | Provide the Good Jobs Hawaiʻi project team with a learning and evaluation partner that can offer actionable insights and ongoing analysis of how the initiative is helping to prepare and place local residents into high-demand, well-paying jobs | $303,000 |
Windward District Office | Own Your Own Future Initiative: The Wayfinder Project – Waimānalo and Kailua High Families Successfully Navigating College and Career Pathways | $30,000 |
2022 Public Education GrantsTotal: $1,741,192
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50CAN | General operating support for HawaiiKidsCAN, an education advocacy organization committed to ensure that Hawaiʻi has an excellent and equitable education system | $150,000 |
Adult Friends for Youth | Redirecting students back to school through intensive counseling | $50,000 |
Department of Education Leeward District | Holomua Seariders Transitions Program (for Waiʻanae High School Students with disabilities) | $21,600 |
Hawaiʻi Community Foundation | To support public preschool expansion through the Every Keiki Fund by leveraging private-sector expertise and philanthropic dollars to help the new School Facilities Authority quickly use its newly approved $200 million in state funding well before it expires in 2024 | $100,000 |
Hawaiʻi Community Foundation | Hawaiʻi Workforce Funders Collaborative Field Workforce Fund | $250,000 |
HI FusionED | Introducing Hawaiʻi’s Middle and High School Students to Coding Career Pathways | $25,000 |
I’m a Bright Kid Foundation | Bright and Early (BxE) Program – A cooperative endeavor of the I’m A Bright Kid Foundation (IABK) and Windward Community College | $25,000 |
Kaimuki-McKinley-Roosevelt Complex Area | Kaimuki-McKinley-Roosevelt Complex Area Framework for Powerful Results Revitalization (Instructional Leadership Teams) | $25,000 |
Kūlia Education Foundation | Support for the marketing for and hiring of key staff for the newly authorized Kūlia Academy Public Charter School in Kalihi focusing on IT skills and project-based learning | $50,000 |
New Teacher Center | Supporting new teachers in Hawaiʻi more effectively teach public school students that are still learning the English language | $50,000 |
PeerForward | Peers Leading Peers through Higher Education | $223,500 |
Pilina Education Alliance | Support of Pathway to Purpose, a career-based high school program that provides guidance, mentorship and work-based learning opportunities for students | $250,000 |
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Hawaiʻi P-20 Core Support 2022-2025 | $450,000 |
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | UH System Student Basic Needs Outreach & Education Program | $63,592 |
Windward School District | Unsolicited grant to the Hawaiʻi Department of Education/Windward District to increase federal financial aid FAFSA filing by seniors in five public DOE high schools in Windward Oʻahu | $7,500 |
2021 Public Education GrantsTotal: $2,226,391
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Aikahi Elementary School | Instructional Innovation Grant to create an outdoor makerspace | $22,500 |
Center for Tomorrow’s Leaders | Resilient Hawaiʻi powered by resilient young leaders. Support to expand CTL’s high school and post-high programming | $275,000 |
Chamber of Commerce of Hawaiʻi | Phase 2.0 Work-Based Learning System-Building and Regional Intermediary Project | $240,000 |
Collaborative Support Services | Commit to Keiki 2022 | $120,000 |
Daniel K. Inouye Elementary School | Instructional Innovation Grant to provide a quality distance learning option for the entire complex area | $15,800 |
Elemental Excelerator | Root for Innovation in Hawaiʻi | $57,720 |
50CAN | General operating support for HawaiiKidsCAN | $150,000 |
Hawaiʻi Literacy | Intensive Academic Tutoring with Hawaiʻi Literacy | $74,022 |
Hawaiʻi State Board of Education | Contracting the National Association of State Boards of Education to support Public Education Governance, Strategic Direction, Leadership Development, and Executive Search in Hawaiʻi | $75,000 |
Kahului Elementary School | Kahului Elementary School Instructional Innovation Grant | $20,800 |
Kailua Intermediate School | Instructional Innovation Grant to support the development of an on-campus Health & Wellness Performance Center | $23,319 |
Kamaile Public Charter School | Instructional Innovation Grant to redesign and launch ‘aina and kai STEM units | $22,500 |
Kaneolani Elementary School | Instructional Innovation Grant to expand high quality project-based learning | $24,955 |
Kapolei High School | Instructional Innovation Grant to target ninth grade science | $3,833 |
Kealakehe High School | Instructional Innovation Grant to support freshmen experiences | $22,500 |
Molokai High and Intermediate School | Instructional Innovation Grant to rethink old advising structures with a new instructional model | $25,000 |
Nanaikapono Elementary School | Instructional Innovation Grant for Kahua ‘O Mali’o – a multi-functional therapeutic student center | $22,500 |
Palama Settlement | Center for Innovation Digital Arts Academy at Palama Settlement | $60,000 |
Pilina Education Alliance | Oceanit High – A High School Career-based Learning Program | $200,000 |
PBL Works | Scaling High Quality PBL in Hawaiʻi – Expanding and Deepening Leadership Training in Cohorts 4 and 5 | $192,102 |
Samuel K. Solomon Elementary School | Instructional Innovation Grant for Cross-Curricular Remote Robotics that develops 21st Century Skills | $22,500 |
SEEQS Foundation | Instructional Innovation Grant to develop a library of high-quality curricular units | $22,500 |
State Higher Education Executive Officers Association | Support for Participation in Attainment Academy 2.0: Achieving Equitable Economic Recovery through Postsecondary Attainment of Hawaiʻi’s 55by25 Goal | $75,000 |
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Intensive Academic Tutoring: a Partnership between Honolulu Community College and Farrington High School | $49,928 |
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Intensive STEM Tutoring between UH College of Engineering and Castle High School | $26,912 |
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation | Hawaiʻi P-20 – Helping Young People Build & Strengthen their Social Networks | $357,000 |
Waiahole Elementary School | Mauka to Makai: Engaging Communities to Re-Design Waiāhole and Ka’a’awa Elementary Schools | $25,000 |