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Director of Development & Alumni Engagement at JABSOM

HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is pleased to announce that Elaine Evans has joined the UH Foundation as the director of development and alumni engagement at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). In this new position, Elaine will engage JABSOM alumni and build philanthropic support among them.

For the past eight years, Elaine has served as director of development for the Hawaii Theatre Center where she was responsible for all aspects of community support - special event fundraising, grant writing, corporate and individual memberships, volunteer coordination, cultivation and stewardship of major and planned gift donors, and the organization’s Sustain The Hawaii capital campaign.

Elaine came to the Theatre and the non-profit sector from a career in sales and marketing – first as advertising director for Honolulu magazine and then as Hawaii representative for the publishers of several
national and regional magazines.

A graduate of Punahou, she completed her B.A. degree in History at Hollins University in Virginia. Elaine has been an active community volunteer for many years and has served on the boards of several professional organizations and many non-profit organizations.

Among Elaine’s proudest accomplishments are her two grown sons – Carter, a reporter for CNN in New York, and Jamie, a film editor in Los Angeles.


FOR UH • FOR HAWAIʻI, The Campaign for the University of Hawaiʻi, is focused on raising $1 billion to support UH priorities on all 10 campuses across the state, including student success; research that matters; kuleana to Native Hawaiians and Hawaiʻi; sustainability, resilience and conservation; innovation and entrepreneurship; building Hawaiʻi’s workforce; and engaging our community. Learn more at uhfoundation.org/4UH4HI

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The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation, a nonprofit organization, raises private funds to support the University of Hawaiʻi System. Our mission is to unite our donors' passions with the University of Hawaiʻi's aspirations to benefit the people of Hawaiʻi and beyond. We do this by raising private philanthropic support, managing private investments and nurturing donor and alumni relationships.  www.uhfoundation.org.