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
In Associate Professor Jing Ai’s risk management class, students are taught to think of risks as a being closely linked to uncertainty. From market crashes to natural disasters, risk management or the process of identifying and assessing potential risks in order to minimize negative impact, plays a crucial role in a corporation’s decision making processes.
Hapa-haole Hawaiian music connoisseurs Nancy Gustafsson-Rittenband and her husband Victor Rittenband wrote songs that encouraged listeners to think of Hawaiian music on a deeper level.
For 97-year-old Jitsumi Yamakawa, watching University of Hawai‘i sports is more than pastime; it’s an integral part of his daily routine. Everything from football to golf, live broadcast to 20-year-old game, Yamakawa (also known as “Uncle Joe”) tunes in to all things UH sports.
New lab facilities at UH Mānoa’s Lyon Arboretum will help expand efforts to store, propagate and eventually restore many of Hawai‘i’s endangered native plant species
Aloha Shoyu is helping Hawaii’s health care future by funding scholarships for pharmacy students.
UH alumna Dr. Harriet Natsuyama wants to make the greatest impact and do the greatest good. Passionate about building a sustainable world and education, she established the Natsuyama-Otsubo Family Initiative Fund.
The first winners of the University of Hawaiʻi President’s Green Initiative Awards were honored in a ceremony on Friday, March 11 at the East-West Center as part of the fourth Hawaiʻi Sustainability in Higher Education Summit.
Fueled by his unrelenting commitment to the field, he established the Architecture Department within the College of Arts and Sciences, served as the department's first chair, and established both the four-year pre-architecture undergraduate degree program and the pre-professional programs in landscape architecture and interior design.
Attorney Eric Haws specialized in bankruptcy law during a time when many farmers were losing everything. “We often had things like large bags of walnuts or other produce around the house that my father took as payment for his services,” said daughter Maria Haws.
