Recent Grants

Hawaii  Women’s  Legal  Foundation  is  pleased  to announce  that  it  awarded  grants  to several nonprofit  organizations  as  part  of its  Spring  2022-2023  grant  year.  Awardees were:

• Adult Friends for Youth
• Family Promise of Hawaiʻi
• Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of ʻOahu
• Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of East Hawaiʻi
• Hawaiʻi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Helping Hands Hawaiʻi
• Island of Hawaiʻi YMCA
• Kids Matter-Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of West Hawaiʻi, Inc.
• Kuʻikahi Mediation Center & Big Island Mediation Inc., dba West Hawaiʻi Mediation Center
• Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke
• Molokai Child Abuse Prevention Pathways
• Pacific Survivor Center
• Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic (UH)
• Samaritan Counseling Center Hawaiʻi
• The Bridge: Kauai to College
• The Children’s Law Project of Hawaiʻi
• Volunteer Legal Services Hawaiʻi
• Women of Waiʻanae

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