Be sure that the email address you provide when registering is an email that you frequently check. If you do not receive an email from “scholarships@pauahi.org,” in your email inbox, please check your spam or junk folder.

You should also add Pauahi Foundation as a contact to avoid missing future emails from us as we frequently send important messages via email during the application window.

Please contact us at: scholarships@pauahi.org or (808) 534-8080 if you do not receive our email within 2-3 hours after registering.

Your username is typically the email address you registered with. If you’ve forgotten your password, please click on the “Forgot your password?” link on the Log-In page.

Yes. If you have previously applied for a scholarship with Pauahi Foundation, please register for a new user profile as your username and passphrase credentials from prior years have expired.

1. What career do you see yourself in 10-15 years and what life experience(s) has helped you realize this career goal?
2. Provide the month/year of a community service opportunity you participated in or helped organize. Briefly describe the service and explain what kind of impact it has made on you and how it has helped you recognize your career/life goal.
3. Give a short description of a challenging event you have personally experienced, then explain how you overcame it and grown from the experience.
4. List your extracurricular activities, community service or volunteer work:
   • For current high school seniors:
     List by academic year (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior) all extracurricular activities including: on- and off-campus clubs or activities, sports, volunteer or community service. Include your role.
     Example: Freshman — Song leader, Glee Club; treasurer, student council; quarterback, JV football
   • For all others:
     List by year all community service or volunteer work that you participated in or coordinated within the last 5 years. Include organization name, number of hours & supervisor name.
     Example: Date — Organization name, number of hours, supervisor’s name.

Additional essays may be required by your selected scholarship fund. Please review the Scholarships Listing for prompts.

Yes. Our online application portal has a security feature that causes the application to time out after 20 minutes of inactivity. We highly recommend that you review our Scholarships Listing and prepare your personal statements and essays ahead of time and copy/paste them into your application.

You may “save & continue” your application anytime before submission, but once you submit your application, you will be unable to return to make changes.

All personal statements and essays have a limitation of 3,000 characters, which is counted by each stroke on the keyboard: letters, numbers, punctuation and spaces. The counter at the bottom of the entry block indicates the number of characters you have remaining and will display a negative number if you are over the 3,000 character limit. In the event of an overage, you will need to edit your entry down to the 3,000 character limit.

First, check that your institution is accredited by an organization recognized by KS. If your institution is accredited by one of the seven accrediting agencies listed, click on “Other” and type in your institution in the text box provided and include the institution’s location (city, state).

 

No. Once your online application is submitted, you can not make any changes. Requests for changes must be submitted to scholarships@pauahi.org before the program deadline (please include your KAPF ID number in your email).

First, ensure that the document you are uploading is a PDF or JPG/JPEG file that does not exceed 5 MB.

Otherwise, a Pauahi Foundation scholarship team member has reviewed your document submission and has deemed it insufficient is requesting another document be submitted.

Log back into the online application portal, then click on Required Documents > Upload Document (or) Check Document Status for more information or to submit the correct document.

After completing and submitting your online application, you will receive a confirmation email from scholarships@pauahi.org. This confirmation email will include your 5-digit KAPF ID number and a list of all the scholarship funds you had selected.

You will need to include your KAPF ID number for correspondence with Pauahi Foundation staff.

Applicants may obtain their school transcript by contacting their school’s registrar’s office, or if applicable via their school’s online portal.

School transcripts can be issued directly to the student (unofficial, sealed envelope not required) or issued directly to Pauahi Foundation (official, sealed envelope required).

School transcripts typically display the following:

• Student’s legal name and (if applicable) degree program information
• Name of school
• Course information (course names, dates taken)
• Grades and weight of each grade and/or credits earned for each completed term
• Total and/or cumulative GPA

Official transcripts typically include other distinct markings such as: embossments, seals, watermarks, designated school official’s signature.

If you are:	Transcript must show:
A current high school senior	Final grade information and GPA for 7 semesters of completed high school work.   This includes: all semesters, Freshman through Junior years AND fall semester, Senior year.
Not-a-recent high school graduate OR Have never attended college	Final grade information and GPA for completed high school work (Grades 9 through 12).
A current college student	Final grade information and GPA for each completed college term, including most recently completed fall term.
A college student matriculating to a higher degree program OR Current college student transferring to a new institution	Final grade information and GPA for most recent completed college term.

Please allow sufficient time for delivery. Documents received after our program deadline will not be accepted.

Delivery method	Instructions
Document upload via online application portal (Recommended)	Unofficial transcripts may be uploaded via our online portal (sealed envelope not necessary). Ensure that complete grade information is included and you scan and upload all pages of the transcript. Document text must be clear and legible. Once you have completed and submitted your Pauahi Foundation online application: Go to Applicant Dashboard > Required Documents > Upload Document On the line item marked “School Transcript,” click “Choose File,” locate your transcript, then “Upload” Only PDF and JPG/JPEG files, no more than 5 MB are accepted. Allow 3 business days for processing before checking on the status
Secured email via third-party processor (Recommended)	Applicable for some colleges/universities. Your official transcript can be sent directly from third-party processors such as eTranscripts, e-Scrip Safe, National Student Clearinghouse, Transcript Link, Parchment, Transcript Network, etc. and are made available as a secured, password protected downloadable PDF file. Please instruct your school to email directly to: Pauahi Foundation, scholarships@pauahi.org
U.S. Postal Service	Official transcript must be in the school’s  sealed/unopened envelope. Our mailing address: Pauahi Foundation — Scholarships 567 S. King St. Honolulu, HI 96813
In-person or drop-off (O‘ahu only)	Official transcript must be in the school’s sealed/unopened envelope. Visit any of our KS Resource Center locations on O‘ahu.

You may upload an unofficial transcript via our online application portal. A sealed envelope is not needed if you choose this delivery method.

Our Pauahi Foundation scholarships team has reviewed your submitted document and has determined that it is either incomplete (missing complete grade information) or the document is illegible or incorrect.

Please review our questions and answers in this school transcript section and submit the corrected document before our program deadline.

No. Request for LORs and receipt of LORs must be completed via our online application portal only. Letters received by email or mail will not be accepted.

1. Log in to the online application portal. Then, go to: Applicant Dashboard > Step 2: Letters of Recommendation > Request LORs.
2. Enter the first and last name of your advocate.
3. Choose your advocate’s referral type (Educator, Employer or Community Leader)
4. Enter your advocate’s email address.
5. Click “Request LOR”

Your advocate will receive an email from scholarships@pauahi.org which will include instructions on how they can submit their letter of recommendation to us online.

We highly recommend that you notify your advocate first about your request and advise them to check their inbox, spam or junk folder for our email. Allow enough time for your advocate to submit their letter. LORs received after our program deadline will not be accepted.

No. Letters of recommendation from family members are not accepted. If a letter is found to be from a family member and you are awarded a scholarship, the scholarship will be rescinded and awarded to the next eligible ranked student.

The requirement of submitting letters of recommendation for select funds is set forth by the donors. If you are unable to find the specific type of writer, i.e. educator, community or employer, then you may have to evaluate your eligibility for the scholarship.

Yes, as long as it satisfies the specific type of recommendation required for each scholarship fund.

The FAFSA is a form administered by the U.S. Department of Education. By the information you provide from tax forms, W-2s, other earned income, etc., third parties, such as college institutions are able to award college aid.

The Student Aid Report (SAR) summarizes all information you provided on your FAFSA. Your SAR will contain your Expected Family Contribution (EFC), the number used in determining your eligibility for federal student aid and also the number the Foundation uses to determine financial need.

You should complete the FAFSA if you are applying for any of our scholarships with the criteria: “Demonstrate financial need.”

If you provided an email address when you submitted your FAFSA online, expect to receive an email from them within 3-5 business days. This email will contain a secure link so you can access and download your SAR. You may need to check your email’s spam or junk folder.

Make sure to download all pages of your SAR as a PDF file. This is the file you will need to send to Pauahi Foundation.

No. We do not accept the “Print Summary” in lieu of the SAR.

Log in to the online application portal. Then, go to: Applicant Dashboard > Required Documents > Upload Document

On the line item marked “SAR,” click “Choose File,” locate your SAR, then “Upload”

Our Pauahi Foundation scholarships team has reviewed your submitted document and has determined that it is either incomplete (not all pages of your SAR were uploaded), outdated (SAR must be for the 2021-22 academic year), illegible or an incorrect document was submitted.

Please review our questions and answers in this SAR section and submit the corrected document before our program deadline.

Art portfolios are required only if the scholarship fund you’ve chosen requires it. Please review our Scholarships Listing to determine which fund requires a portfolio.

Please mail hard copies of of your portfolio to:

Pauahi Foundation — Scholarships
567 S. King. St.
Honolulu, HI 96813

• We do not accept any electronic or digital copies of artist portfolios (No: CD, DVD, URLs).
• Instead of including your name on all pages of your portfolio, please use your KAPF ID number.
• Allow sufficient time for delivery. Portfolios received after our program deadline will not be accepted.
• Artist portfolios will not be returned.

Award checks are disbursed directly to your designated institution during the fall semester (August).

Awards are based on information provided from the applicant and according to the criteria set forth by the donors. A re-evaluation of the new information will be made and you will be notified of the decision.

You must contact Pauahi Foundation (email: scholarships@pauahi.org) as soon as possible if you have decided to change schools. Please be prepared to provide the acceptance letter from that school.

No. If you are unable to utilize the funds for the academic year it is being awarded for, you will forfeit the award and the scholarship will be awarded to the next eligible ranked student.