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 Kenneth Keiso Uyeda and Nora Saida Uyeda Endowment in the Department of Geriatric Medicine will strengthen the educational, clinical training, research and community outreach missions of the department, and help ensure a strong future for the geriatric medicine fellowship training program.
A scholarship honoring the love of Edith Stoecklein Suyama and Larry Suyama will live on in perpetuity for the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature.
When Janet and Patrick Bullard’s beloved dog Ipo passed away, they decided to honor her memory by helping students who have chosen to help animals.
AARP Senior VP and Public Policy Institute Director Dr. Susan Reinhard shared groundbreaking research on family caregivers’ complex medical tasks.
Dr. Sheila Conant, zoology professor emerita, says she has given annual gifts to UH since 1977 “because there are programs that I really feel need support.”
Scholarships ensure that student-athletes like Kalei Adolpho (Wahine basketball & volleyball), and Davis Rozitis (Rainbow Warriors men’s basketball) succeed.
Eddie Flores emigrated to Hawai‘i at 16. He couldn’t have known the impact he would make – so far his scholarship has helped more than 104 students.
Scholarships can help the ocean and its creatures, too. That’s how ocean recreation specialist Kaipo Perez III (BS & PhD Mānoa) sees it.
An innovative loan repayment program is helping doctors and nurses serve in communities where they are needed the most throughout the state.
