HONOLULU – www.VoltaCharging.com – Volta Industries (Volta) today announced its new program, Awareness Powered by Volta, a community service outreach program specifically designed to help non-profit and community groups with building awareness by providing them free advertising space worth $3,900 on Volta’s electric vehicle (EV) charging station kiosks.

Interested non-profits and community groups are encouraged to apply by February 22. Volta will choose three semi-finalists, and the public will choose the winning group to receive three months of free advertising at a Volta’s EV charging station valued at $3,000. Meanwhile the runner-up will receive one-month of free advertising valued at $900.

More than two dozen Xerox Hawaii employees and their families spent their Saturday morning mixing soil and planting vegetable seedlings to replenish The Institute for Human Services, Inc.’ vertical garden at its women and children shelter in Iwilei.  Xerox Hawaii donated $2,500 to cover the cost of planting materials, and provided a team of volunteers to do the actual plantings.

“The Institute for Human Services, Inc. provides such crucial services to thousands of people in need each year,” said Glenn Sexton, Vice President and General Manager for Xerox Hawaii.  “It’s important that businesses like Xerox provide as much support as possible to ensure IHS can continue to fulfill the growing need for food, shelter, and social services for Hawaii’s homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless.”

The Cooke Foundation announced the retirement of Samuel A. Cooke after nearly 40 years as a trustee and as its president for 27 years. The board has elected Dale S. Bachman to serve as its new board president, effective November 9, 2012.

Cooke first joined the Foundation board as a trustee in 1975. A retired senior vice president of Morgan Stanley, and a former board member of several Hawai‘i corporations, Cooke has spent many years as a devoted philanthropist in the islands, including on the boards of the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Hawai‘i Community Foundation, Hawai‘i Pacific University, National Tropical Botanical Gardens, and the Hawaiian Missions Children’s Society. Cooke is also a founder of The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Mānoa Heritage Center and the Kuali‘i Foundation. He was succeeded as a Cooke Foundation trustee in November 2012 by his daughter, Catherine Cooke.