SPOTLIGHT- Community
2007
| DONOR | CONTRIBUTION | RECIPIENT | SOURCE |
| Lucinda Jean Weaver | research-grade laboratory equipment | Windward Community College | "Donated lab equipment boon to WCC students" HA January 23, 2007 |
| Jill Wheatnan, Starbucks Hawaii | All Books for Children book drive | Ready, Set, Read Project - Big Island | "Starbucks sets annual All Books for Children drive," Hawaii Tribune Herald Aug. 2, 2006 |
| Wally Yonamine | $200,000 to HHSAA | Hawaii High School Athletic Association | "Yonamine donates $200,000 to HHSAA" Honolulu Advertiser June 12, 2006 |
| John and Sue Dean | $250,000 | Shidler Business College | Shining Stars "Pair gives $250,000 to UH business school" Honolulu Star-Bulletin February 20, 2007 |
| Scott Inatsuka - Lincolne Scott | Excellence Award | American Council of Engineering Companies of Hawaii | "Outstanding Engineering" Building Industry February 2007 |
| Randell Dunn - Waipahu Intermediate | Excellence Award | American Council of Engineering Companies of Hawaii | "Outstanding Engineering" Building Industry February 2007 |
| Duane Kashiwai - DOE, Public Works | Excellence Award | American Council of Engineering Companies of Hawaii | "Outstanding Engineering" Building Industry February 2007 |
| Mitch D'Olier - Harold L.K. Castle Foundation | $210,000 cash grant | 21 public elementary schools | "21 Hawaii schools boost 3rd grade reading" Honolulu Advertiser 9/3/07 |
| McInerny Foundation - Katherine Anderson | Funded Adult Friends for Youth Clinical/Competency-Based Alternative Education Program | Adult Friends for Youth | "Friends for Youth" Honolulu Advertiser 8/30/07 |
| Frear Eleemosynary Trust | Funded Adult Friends for Youth Clinical/Competency-Based Alternative Education Program | Adult Friends for Youth | "Friends for Youth" Honolulu Advertiser 8/30/07 |
| G.N. Wilcox Trust | Funded Adult Friends for Youth Clinical/Competency-Based Alternative Education Program | Adult Friends for Youth | "Friends for Youth" Honolulu Advertiser 8/30/07 |
| KTA Super Stores (Big Island) | Kokua i Na Kula program | Big Island schools | "KTA announces its 14th annual Kokua i Na Kula" Hawaii Tribune Herald 8/31/07 |
| Kraft Foods Hawaii | Kokua i Na Kula program | Big Island schools | "KTA announces its 14th annual Kokua i Na Kula" Hawaii Tribune Herald 8/31/07 |
| Patti Shannon | volunteerism - American Red Cross Hawaii Chapter Oahu Volunteer of the Year | organized 15 high school Red Cross clubs on Oahu | "Her passion: to foster volunteering" Honolulu Advertiser 8/22/07 |
| Pearl City Lions Club | school supplies | Palisades Elementary, Lehua Elementary School, Momilani Elementary, Pearl City Elementary, Manana Elementary, Waiau Elementary, and Pearl City Highlands Elementary | "Club delivers school supplies" Honolulu Advertiser 8/3/07 |
| Mitch D'Olier - Harold L.K. Castle Foundation | $34,613 award | UH COE Curriculum Research & Development Group in support of professional development partnership with Blanche Pope Elementary | "College of Education receives over $30K" Honolulu Advertiser 10/23/07 |
| Jack & Zelie Myers - Myers Development Company | $50,000 award | UH Foundation to create Jack & Zelie Myers Scholarship Fund | "Jack and Zelie Myers fund UH scholarship" Pacific Business News, Sept 28, 2007 |
| Castle & Cooke's Dole Plantation | $5,000 donation | Waialua High & Intermediate robotics program | "Waialua Robotics given $5000" Honolulu Advertiser |
| Chevron, USA | Sponsor | Academic WorldQuest Competition | email from Jill Takasaki Canfield, E.D. PAAC |
| James Campbell Company, LLC | $250,000 pledge | Malama Learning Center @ Kapolei HS | Kapolei FYI November 2007 |
| Diamond Head Rotary Club | Free Vision Screenings for kids | Ala Wai School | Honolulu Advertiser 11/05/07 |
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded a $10 million grant for an initiative to get every third-grader in Hawaii reading at grade level by 2015.
Harold K.L. Castle Foundation recognizes 21 schools throughout the state by awarding them with $10,000 each for increasing reading scores for third-grade students.
Heide & Cooke Ltd donated 300 backpacks filled with school supplies to its neighbors Puuhale Elementary Schoool.