Outright Gifts
An outright gift is one that has an immediate benefit to the College of Engineering. Cash, real estate, securities and other assets can be given outright. You may specify a particular department or program to support or choose to designate your gift to the Dean’s Enrichment Fund, which supports the College’s greatest needs based on priorities determined by the Dean.

Cash
Cash gifts are an excellent way of supporting the College of Engineering. Cash gifts include checks, drafts, money orders and credit cards. If your gift is mailed before the end of the calendar year and you itemize when doing your taxes, you’re eligible for an income tax deduction for that year. Gifts of cash are deductible for up to 50% of your adjusted gross income. Cash contributions that exceed the deduction limit may be carried over and deducted in the following five tax years.

Online Gifts
To make a gift online using your credit card, click here.

Payroll Deduction
University of Hawai‘i employees may also choose to make gifts via payroll deductions. Please see your Human Resources/Payroll Office for a salary assignment form. Send completed forms to the UH Foundation, PO Box 11270, Honolulu, HI 96828-0270, Attention: Data Processing.

Real Estate
Almost any marketable real estate may be contributed to the College of Engineering through the UH Foundation, provided the property is unencumbered. Real estate accepted outright by the Foundation is immediately sold so the proceeds can benefit the university’s students, faculty, and programs.

A gift of real estate may entitle you to a charitable deduction of the full fair market value of the property. For gifts of long-term, appreciated real estate the deduction limit is 30% of adjusted gross income with a five-year carry-over period for the excess. You can also bypass capital gains tax on the property. 

The UH Foundation real estate committee would be happy to consider a gift of a home, vacation property, land, rental property, or other real estate in support of the College of Engineering.

Securities
You may donate stocks and bonds to the College of Engineering through the UH Foundation.

Long-term, appreciated securities are those you’ve owned for more than one year and have increased in value. Such a gift would entitle you to a federal income tax deduction for the full fair market value of the securities on the date of the gift, up to a maximum deduction of 30% of your adjusted gross income for the year if you itemize deductions.

Short-term securities are those you’ve held for less than one year. If you itemize, you will be entitled to a federal income tax deduction for only the purchase price of the securities.

Depreciated securities are those that have declined in value since you bought them. To gain maximum tax benefits from the gift, the Foundation suggests that the donor sell these, take the tax loss, and donate the cash proceeds.

Other Assets
Please contact  Kerri Van Duyne, Director of Development, to discuss the donation of other assets.

Contact Us
For more information about giving, please contact Kerri Van Duyne, Director of Development for the College of Engineering.      

Ph: 808.956-2299, Fax: 808.956.2291, Email: kerri.vanduyne@uhf.hawaii.edu