With a newly renovated campus and more building blessings and dedications on the way, Chaminade University of Honolulu’s 10-year $100 million “Bridges to the Future” comprehensive campaign has gathered serious momentum — some $95 million, in fact.
With eight months left to reach the total, the university is reaching out to alumni, friends and the community to propel the campaign past its finish mark.
University president Marianist Brother Bernard J. Ploeger, who completes his tenure in June, said “Meeting with the generous Chaminade donors who, one by one, have agreed to help us achieve our goals has been gratifying and rewarding for me personally.”
After the campaign’s initial launch in July of 2008, sizable early support came from the Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and the U.S. Department of Education’s Title III (for Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions).
In recent years, alumni, board members and local organizations have stepped up. In the past year, a $5.4 million grant from the Kamehameha Schools for the Ho‘oulu STEM scholarships and $1 million from the Alaka‘ina Foundation through Chaminade board of regents chair Vaughn G.A. Vasconcellos have moved the school closer to its goal.
For more information, or to contribute to Chaminade’s Bridges to the Future campaign, contact Diane Peters-Nguyen, vice president of Institutional Advancement at dpeters@chaminade.edu or 735-4772. More information is available on the website at http://www.chaminade.edu/ia/current-campaign.