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 UH Translational Health Science Simulation Center is the only facility of its kind in Hawaiʻi that provides real-life health care scenarios for students.
The UH Hilo College of Pharmacy will build additional teaching and research facilities thanks to a $1 million gift from the J.M. Long Foundation.
The dream of the Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex at UH Mānoa became a reality in 2014 thanks to a $5 million gift and a public-private partnership.
Philanthropist and UH supporter Joanna Lau Sullivan pledged $3 million to the UH Cancer Center to help build, furnish and maintain its state-of-the-art research building.
UH Mānoa’s Department of Music unveiled its renovated buildings and auditorium in 2009, thanks to a $1.3 million repair and maintenance project.
In 2008 Professor David Karl was named the recipient of a $3.79 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to continue and expand research on the microbial inhabitants of the world's oceans.
Coral reef ecosystems provide value to coastal communities at an estimated net benefit of $29.8 billion a year from tourism, fisheries, coastal protection, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration.
Ambitious, globally connected doctoral students in the College of Language, Linguistics and Literature at UH Mānoa are receiving financial support so they can focus on their dissertations, conduct field research and complete their course work.
The Henry Luce Foundation's Initiative on East and Southeast Asian Archeology and Early History made an investment in understanding our past by awarding $500,000 to the Department of Anthropology.
