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Oak Foundation seeds innovative UH Hilo youth mentoring program

Two students in masks at laptops The innovative tiered program is being developed at the UH Hilo Center for Place-Based Socioemotional Development, also known as The Hilo Center.

UH West Oʻahu accounting program receives $25K endowment

AGA Hawaiʻi President Shena Bocalbos (left) and UH West Oʻahu Chancellor Maenette Benham The gift from the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) Hawaiʻi supports students pursuing a degree in business administration with a concentration in accounting at UH West O’ahu.

HMSA’s $1M gift endows health economics professorship at UHERO

image of stethoscope The $1 million donation established the HMSA Distinguished Endowed Professorship in Health Economics at the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO) in the College of Social Sciences.

$50M gift aims to improve Hawaiʻi’s ocean health

diver underwater near coral reef The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology - SOEST announced a seven-year $50 million commitment from Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, which will support various research groups within Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology - HIMB.

UH breaks ground on RISE entrepreneurship, student housing facility

image from breaking of ground at Residences for Innovative Student Entrepreneurs (RISE) project The Residences for Innovative Student Entrepreneurs (RISE), will be an innovation and entrepreneurship center/student housing facility located on the site of the former Atherton YMCA across University Avenue from UH’s flagship campus.

First Hawaiian Bank Foundation, Dods give $500K to UH RISE project

Bob Harrison, First Hawaiian Bank (FHB) chairman, president and CEO; Cameron Nekota, FHB Foundation president; Susan Yamada, PACE Board of Directors vice chair; Walter A. Dods Jr., FHB former chairman, president and CEO This substantial gift supports the UH Mānoa RISE project, a world-class innovation and entrepreneurship center coupled with student housing being built on the site of the former Atherton YMCA, across from the flagship campus.

JTB Goodwill Foundation endows Kapi‘olani CC Culinary Scholarship Fund with $40K donation

Lena Young, JTB Goodwill Foundation board director and treasurer; Linh Hoang Poe, senior director of development for Kapi‘olani Community College; endowed scholarship recipients Jose Zavalia, Micah Davis, and Serey Panha Sok; Hiroyuki "Keith" Kitagawa, former president of the JTB Goodwill Foundation; Dean John Richards of Kapi‘olani Community College; and Tetsuya "Ted" Kubo, president of the JTB Goodwill Foundation. Gift will help provide support to aspiring hospitality students enrolled in Kapi‘olani Community College’s Culinary Institute of the Pacific.

KAI Hawaii gives $250,000 to UH College of Engineering to endow new sustainability program

image of Ken Hayashida KAI Hawaii Inc., a Honolulu-based structural and forensic engineering firm, has given $250,000 to the University of Hawaiʻi College of Engineering to endow a new Vertically Integrated Project, or VIP, related to sustainability and resilience.

UHA honors founder Max Botticelli through gift to support med students

image of Ann Botticelli, Jerris Hedges, Tim Dolan, Jill Omori and Howard Lee holding a check from UHA University Health Alliance (UHA) Health Insurance has donated $1 million to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) to support student learning.

Island Insurance Foundation gives $250,000 to UH RISE project

Susan Yamada, Vance Roley, Dana Tokioka and Kristi Bates hold a large check in front of the RISE project at the University of Hawaii The gift from the Island Insurance Foundation raises the total of private donations for the RISE project to $1 million.

UH Foundation raises $245,639 on second-ever Giving Tuesday

Five students exuberantly jumping in the air. The University of Hawaiʻi ʻohana answered the call to Come Together for the second UH Giving Tuesday.

UH Foundation invites donors to ‘Come Together’ on Giving Tuesday

UH Giving Tuesday 2021 The online event on Tuesday, Nov. 30, is being held in conjunction with the global Giving Tuesday effort.

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