The First Hawaiian Bank Foundation has given Teach for America Hawaii a $50,000 grant to help improve the quality of education in Hawaii's public school system.

Teach for America is a national program in which recent college graduates who commit to two years of teaching in urban and rural public schools. The Hawaii chapter, in existence since 2006, has a corps of 105 teachers.

"Their efforts are to expand educational opportunity, and are constantly working to ensure they are doing all that they can to alleviate the achievement gap in schools across Hawaii," according to a news release from the Foundation, which is the charitable arm of First Hawaiian Bank.