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HONOLULU – Former Alexander & Baldwin (A&B) vice president, and chair and commissioner of the State of Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources Commission on Water Resource Management Richard H. Cox has made a $40,000 gift to fund an endowment. » More

HAWAIʻI — The UH Foundation is honored to announce that thanks to donors’ generosity, $98,583,866 was raised in fiscal year 2014 (7/1/2013 - 6/30/2014) to support University of Hawai‘i students, faculty, research and programs on all ten UH campuses. » More

HONOLULU – Carol Mon Lee is building on her, and her late husband Dr. Jerry Bentley’s generosity by establishing a third endowed fund at UH with her latest gift of $100,000. » More

HONOLULU – The University of Hawai‘i Foundation is honored to welcome Herb Conley, Ken Hayashida, Louise Ing, Eric K. Martinson, and C. Scott Wo to the board of trustees.

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Johnson Controls recently awarded a $57,895 grant to UH to support student scholarships for the UH and Johnson Controls Fellows Program and Honolulu CC’s Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology program. » More

Barbara Hilyer of Portland, Ore., is building on her aunt Heléne H. Hale’s legacy of generosity by gifting real estate and creating a charitable remainder trust to help grow the Heléne Hilyer Hale “Citizen of the World” Scholarship Endowment. » More

Kamehameha Schools has awarded Kapi‘olani Community College $50,000 to fund a new program called Project Olonā. Project Olonā will engage 12 Native Hawaiian students in the comparison of plant growth rates using traditional soil and hydroponic systems. » More

HONOLULU — American Savings Bank (ASB), has committed $100,000 to the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (UHM), Shidler College of Business. As part of a five-year commitment, this gift will support entrepreneurial education and help UHM monetize research efforts. In recognition of this gift, one of the co-working spaces will be named in ASB’s honor. » More

Madeleine and Hany Guirguis, RPh, PhD, co-owner of Mina Pharmacy, presented a check for $20,000 to John Pezzuto, Founding Dean of the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy. » More

HONOLULU —Led by chairman and CEO John Dean, Central Pacific Bank (CPB) and its executives have committed $200,000 to the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) to expand the Center and its programs. A new accelerator program will be a key feature. » More

Hawai`i Island - Thanks to an innovative partnership between Kamehameha Schools Extension Educational Services Division, UH Hilo, and the DOE Complex covering Kea`au, Ka`u, and Pāhoa, 25 Hawai`i Island Kea`au High School students will experience first-hand what studying and living on the UH Hilo campus is like. » More

HONOLULU – While Victor and Margaret (Peggy) Pavel are no longer with us, their transformational $11.5 million estate gift continues to build areas of UH excellence for the benefit of Hawai‘i’s people. Of this historic estate gift, $1.88 million was designated to create endowed professorships in medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). » More