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
Through internships and scholarships, SSFM is preparing the students of today to be the engineers of tomorrow.
Since 2010, the Weinman Foundation Fund for Innovation has brought five Nobel Laureates to UH, to inspire new ideas in the fight against cancer.
Nine deserving Hawaiʻi Island high school students will be the first in their families to attend college, at UH Hilo, thanks to the Dorrance Scholarships.
Dr. Charles Rosser, winner of the 2014 Weinman Innovator Award, is working on a new test that could mean earlier detection of the most prevalent cancer in the U.S.
The Kenneth Keiso Uyeda and Nora Saida Uyeda Endowment in the Department of Geriatric Medicine will strengthen the educational, clinical training, research and community outreach missions of the department, and help ensure a strong future for the geriatric medicine fellowship training program.
A scholarship honoring the love of Edith Stoecklein Suyama and Larry Suyama will live on in perpetuity for the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature.
When Janet and Patrick Bullard’s beloved dog Ipo passed away, they decided to honor her memory by helping students who have chosen to help animals.
AARP Senior VP and Public Policy Institute Director Dr. Susan Reinhard shared groundbreaking research on family caregivers’ complex medical tasks.
Dr. Sheila Conant, zoology professor emerita, says she has given annual gifts to UH since 1977 “because there are programs that I really feel need support.”
