Recent Grants

Hawaii  Women’s  Legal  Foundation  is  pleased  to announce  that  it  awarded  grants  to several nonprofit  organizations  as  part  of its  2023-2024  grant  year.  Awardees were:

• Adult Friends for Youth
• Aloha Medical Mission
• Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of East Hawai‘i
• Helping Hands Hawai‘i
• Ho‘ōla Na Pua
• Institute of Violence, Abuse and Trauma
• Island of Hawai‘i YMCA
• Kids Matter-Friends of the Children’s
• Justice Center of West Hawai‘i, Inc.
• Make-A-Wish Hawai‘i
• Surfrider Spirit Sessions
• The Keala Foundation
• Women of Wai‘anae
• YWCA of O‘ahu

HWLF through its fundraising activities and events provides grants to worthy Hawaii organizations who meet its mission. HWLF considers grant applications twice a year in April and October. Grants are funded with proceeds from HWLF’s annual fundraisers.

Priority is given to applicants with projects that improve the legal status and welfare of women and children in Hawaii. Neighbor island applications are encouraged. To learn more, see our Press Releases calling for applications and announcing awardees.

Previous Grantees

• Adult Friends for Youth
• aio Foundation
• Aloha Harvest
• Aloha Medical Mission
• Big Island Mediation Inc.
• Catholic Charities Hawaii – Mary Jane Program
• Dress a Girl Around the World — West Hawaii
• Family Promise of Hawaii
• Friends of Family Specialty Courts
• Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of Oahu
• Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii
• Helping Hands Hawaii (HHH)
• Institute of Violence, Abuse and Trauma/Hoʻomaluhia
• Island of Hawaii YMCA Family Visitation Center
• Kids Hurt Too Hawaii
• Kids Matter – Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of West Hawaii
• Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center & Big Island Mediation Inc. dba West Hawaii Mediation Center (WHMC)
• Malama Pono Health Services
• Nest for Families
• Pacific Survivor Center
• Project Vision Hawai‘i
• Surfing the Nations
• The Children’s Law Project of Hawai‘i
• The Mediation Center of the Pacific
• Volunteer Legal Services Hawai‘i
• Women of Wai’anae
• Young Women’s Christian Association of Oah‘u