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
Dr. Santosh Sharma pursued a rewarding career as physician and scientist with her parents’ encouragement. To honor them, she has endowed a chair at JABSOM.
25 college-bound graduates from Hawaii Island’s Kea‘au High School lived for six weeks on the UH Hilo campus. The experience was life-changing.
When they lost their talented 23-year-old son Matt, Vince and Annette Smith established an art scholarship to help art students and honor Matt’s legacy of creativity.
“Clinical trials of medications offer HOPE. This endowment will allow everyone the opportunity for clinical trials ... right here on Maui.” —Tim Moyer
Dr. Ralph Shohet’s grandfather died of a heart attack in 1977. “If we had been able to treat him with modern approaches, we might have had another 10 years with him.”
The Heléne Hilyer Hale "Citizen of the World" scholarship comes with the hope and expectation that the recipients will follow in her footsteps to make a difference in their communities, bring an international perspective, work for peace and justice, and spread the spirit of aloha.
Kamehameha Schools is partnering with UH to fuel students’ study of Hawaiian plants and support the innovative Kupa-‘Āina residential program.
Regents Scholarships are keeping 20 top local high school students at UH. And, donors to the Akaka Regents Scholarship are helping more students succeed.
“It was a very emotional moment when I found out that I was awarded the scholarship; something in me changed.” —Brunilda DeLeon
