No major university can grow and excel without a healthy mix of public and private funds. Private contributions leverage public funds and maximize taxpayer dollars. Through partnering with philanthropic investors, our university can sustain excellence and enhance the student experience, making our campuses learning destinations of choice.
Many of the donors who give major gifts to the University of Hawaiʻi do so to support a program, school, or area of study that they believe in. Without exception, their gift has a major impact on our students, faculty and campus community as a whole.
Recent Impact Stories
The University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu library has been named the James and Abigail Campbell Library to recognize their legacy role in the school’s history.
Paulette M. Yamada, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Education Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science (KRS), will be teaching undergraduate and graduate students how to use exercise training to maintain the health of cancer survivors as they undergo (toxic) cancer treatments.
The scholarship is as much for the memory of my father and his career as my acceptance of its major role in shaping my own values, life and career.
On October 2, 2017 Drew Santos and Cooling Cancer presented the University of Hawaii Cancer Center with a $60,000 check.
Sometimes our career paths are clear at very early ages. More often, our paths reveal themselves when we’re in the middle of something else, as happened to UH Mānoa graduate Alison Nakatani Heraclio.
A tiny computer hidden in a fuzzy snow leopard automatically downloaded newly posted songs on Reddit. A mobile app located the nearest farmers’ markets and displayed their hours of operation. These were some of the great ideas at the 2017 UH-AT&T Hackathon.
Scholarships are helping Jolene, a single mom with big dreams, reach her goal and give back to Kaua‘i. Read her letter to donors.
UH alumni David and Elsie are longtime season ticket holders for basketball, baseball, and football, and have worked to provide The Game & Tunnel Experience to youth teams, schools, clubs, groups, families and eager fans of UH men's basketball.
