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Financial Aid Support for our Students!
As the School strives to attract the best, brightest and most promising students, regardless of their family’s financial resources, a robust financial aid fund is vital. Punahou is honored to offer approximately $10 million in need-based financial aid each year to one in four Punahou students due to generous gifts to the PunsUnited Financial Aid Fund.
Gifts to our endowment is another meaningful and enduring way to support financial aid. To learn more about establishing a named endowed financial aid fund that will live at Punahou forever, please contact a member of our Giving Team.
PUNSUNITED GOAL (2024 – 2025 SCHOOL YEAR)
Punahou awards well over $10M in financial aid annually. Your continued support is appreciated!
Hear how financial aid support has impacted our students.
Featured Stories
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Student Entrepreneurs Raise Financial Aid Funds
Students have launched Students for PunsUnited to raise financial aid funds for families economically affected by the pandemic. -
PunsUnited Fund for Emergency Financial Aid
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Punahou Faculty and Staff Support PunsUnited Fund
More than half of the gifts for emergency financial aid have come from employees. -
Changing Lives with Financial Aid
The School's Changing Lives Challenge raised $16 million in gifts and pledges to financial aid. -
Why We Give: Atherton ‘Ohana
Margie Atherton ’69 Newell, Balbi Atherton ’67 Brooks and Frank Cooke Atherton II ’66 created an endowed financial aid fund. -
Darin Arita ’93
Inspired by his Punahou teachers, Arita established the A.I.M. High Endowed Financial Aid Fund to provide young students with the opportunity to dream big and to achieve their fullest potential. -
Student Voice: They’re Rooting for Me
The experiences I’ve had were made possible because of donors to Punahou’s financial aid. -
Making a Difference: Building Community Through Financial Aid
While the most profound impact of Punahou’s financial aid program is on the families who receive aid, increased access to a Punahou education has impacted the entire student body.
Endowed Financial Aid Funds
Punahou’s 534 endowed financial aid funds made it possible for 750 student families to afford a Punahou education in school year 2018 – 2019. Since 1994, Punahou’s financial aid budget has grown from $1 million to $7.8 million, thanks in large part to the generous donors who support its need-blind admissions policy and philosophical emphasis on a diverse learning community. In the past six years, a total of 130 new Endowed Financial Aid Funds were established through the Ku‘u Punahou Campaign.
Funding is also needed to continue bolstering our current endowment for financial aid, which secures long-term support for deserving students.
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It All Started with a Single Gift
Punahou’s first endowed fund was established by Rev. Eli Corwin on January 1, 1859, with a gift of $500 (still the current book value).Rev. Eli Corwin was born on October 30, 1824, in Wallkill, New York. After graduating from Williams College and Union Seminary, he sailed for San Francisco as a seamen’s chaplain and eventually made his way to Honolulu in 1858. For the next 10 years, he served as pastor to the Fort Street Church, later to become Central Union Church. In 1859, he was named the “nominal president of Oahu College” in the interim between the School’s second president, Rev. Edward Beckwith, and its third, Rev. Cyrus T. Mills. During his tenure at Punahou, he also attended student rhetoricals and taught Bible History.In 1868, Corwin returned to the mainland and passed away at the age of 74. The fund’s Market Value as of December 31, 2018, was $9,208. The fund has supported approximately 160 students since its introduction.
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