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
A life of service and an appearance on The Antiques Roadshow led Jackie Erickson to naming a law school classroom.
With this latest cohort, Lānaʻi High and Elementary School has seen fourteen students complete associate degrees during high school.
Fran Friend Alexander and her husband, Kirk Alexander, have endowed a scholarship that will benefit graduate students studying oceanography at UH.
The boys had seen firsthand the struggles of single-parent households and wanted to ease the burden for future students.
Students participating in the Bonner Leadership Program at UH Hilo engage in service and leadership development rooted in community connection.
When a sudden emergency forced UH Hilo graduate student and single mother Nina Kapuni to flee her home, she faced the terrifying prospect of losing stable housing.
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:
