News Releases
$50M gift aims to improve Hawaiʻi’s ocean health
The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology - SOEST announced a seven-year $50 million commitment from Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, which will support various research groups within Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology - HIMB.
UH breaks ground on RISE entrepreneurship, student housing facility
The Residences for Innovative Student Entrepreneurs (RISE), will be an innovation and entrepreneurship center/student housing facility located on the site of the former Atherton YMCA across University Avenue from UH’s flagship campus.
First Hawaiian Bank Foundation, Dods give $500K to UH RISE project
This substantial gift supports the UH Mānoa RISE project, a world-class innovation and entrepreneurship center coupled with student housing being built on the site of the former Atherton YMCA, across from the flagship campus.
JTB Goodwill Foundation endows Kapi‘olani CC Culinary Scholarship Fund with $40K donation
Gift will help provide support to aspiring hospitality students enrolled in Kapi‘olani Community College’s Culinary Institute of the Pacific.
KAI Hawaii gives $250,000 to UH College of Engineering to endow new sustainability program
KAI Hawaii Inc., a Honolulu-based structural and forensic engineering firm, has given $250,000 to the University of Hawaiʻi College of Engineering to endow a new Vertically Integrated Project, or VIP, related to sustainability and resilience.
UHA honors founder Max Botticelli through gift to support med students
University Health Alliance (UHA) Health Insurance has donated $1 million to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) to support student learning.
Island Insurance Foundation gives $250,000 to UH RISE project
The gift from the Island Insurance Foundation raises the total of private donations for the RISE project to $1 million.
UH Foundation raises $245,639 on second-ever Giving Tuesday
The University of Hawaiʻi ʻohana answered the call to Come Together for the second UH Giving Tuesday.
UH Foundation invites donors to ‘Come Together’ on Giving Tuesday
The online event on Tuesday, Nov. 30, is being held in conjunction with the global Giving Tuesday effort.
Ward Village, Hawaiian Dredging seed construction scholarship at HCC
Ward Village and Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co. have seeded a construction-related scholarship at Honolulu Community College to mark the topping off of Kōʻula.
HEI, American Savings Bank give $500,000 to UH RISE project
Hawaiian Electric Industries and American Savings Bank have each committed a $250,000 gift to the University of Hawai‘i Foundation for the live-learn-work community at RISE — Residences for Innovative Student Entrepreneurs, which will be operated by the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship, or PACE, at UH Mānoa’s Shidler College of Business.
Central Pacific Bank Foundation grants help Maui students advance to college, develop leadership skills
Grant in the amount of $50,000 to UH Foundation helped Maui seniors with post-high school plans.
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