in their educational journeys
The first permanently endowed scholarship was created at the UH Foundation in 1976. Since then, the tradition of providing opportunities through private gifts has grown to help more than 5,000 students each year.
Scholarships, awards, grants and fellowships offer students the opportunity to pursue their educational goals at Hawai‘i’s only public system of higher education. The impact of a scholarship has an effect felt far beyond the student helped.
When you provide a scholarship for a student, you do more than help them financially — you impart a lesson of generosity and concern for others that they incorporate into their own lives. By investing in a student, you improve their life, their family's, and our community.
Learn more about how your support can have a profound impact on students in our student aid impact report.
Join us, invest in UH students!
Equity & Access
Your gift to this fund will support students who have demonstrated financial need, are first generation college attendees, or are under-represented at the University of Hawai‘i.
Student Success
Your gift to this fund will help address the greatest needs facing students at each campus or across the University of Hawai‘i.
Student Need at UH
Students can face many challenges as they pursue their education. Your gifts can make a big difference for students between giving up and going forward … between unrealized potential and realizing a dream.
Impact on students
In Hawaiʻi, opportunity often requires a boarding pass. Discover how Southwest Airlines has supported UH students – from aspiring astronomers to national champion eSports athletes – cross the ocean and reach their full potential.
A doctoral studies award nurtures global social welfare, peace, and human rights in honor of former UH Mānoa School of Social Work dean Daniel S. Sanders.
The Kiyoshi H. Shimizu Endowed Fellowship for Graduate Students will assist graduate students preparing to touch lives across Hawai‘i every day.
Decades after being taken in by families on an isolated atoll in Yap, Michael Levin is saying thank you by investing in the region's youth and future leaders.
A renewed gift from the Edmund C. Olson Trust is breaking down financial barriers for local students attending UH Hilo or Hawai'i Community College.
A life of service and an appearance on The Antiques Roadshow led Jackie Erickson to naming a law school classroom.
Let’s start a conversation
If you’re interested in supporting our students, we would love to learn more about what you would like to achieve with your philanthropy. Please contact:
