How To Apply

Completing the Online Application

Step 1: Read all material and instructions

• Instructions are for your usage and benefit

Step 2: Prepare your personal statements

• Compose your statements in a Word document and utilize the spell check and grammar feature
• Statements are limited to 3,000 characters (not words)

Personal Statement Questions:

1. What career do you see yourself in 10-15 years and what life experience(s) has helped you realize this career goal?
2. Choose a meaningful community service that you participated in or helped organize within the past year and explain what kind of impact it has made on you and how it has helped you recognize your career/life goal.
3. Share a challenging event in your life and how you overcame it and grown from the experience.

Step 3: Select scholarship funds

• Review the scholarship listing and select the scholarship funds you feel you are qualified for

Step 4: Create your login and password

• Access the Application Link on our website, pauahi.org
• Passwords must be 8-16 characters in length and include a non-alpha numeric token such as: !, @, #, $.
• Application times-out after 20 minutes of inactivity

Step 5: Click the “Submit” button

• Upon review of your application, click the green “submit” button to send your application to us for further processing

Step 6: Letters of recommendation (required only for select funds)

• Access the Manage Letters of Recommendation page by logging into your Pauahi Foundation application
• Confirm your writers email address
• Request the correct “type” of letter the fund is asking for, i.e. community, educator, employer
• Hard-copy letters of recommendation will not be accepted
• Writer cannot be a family member
• Letters will be applied to all funds that require the same type of letter

Step 7: Student Aid Report (SAR-required for those funds with criteria of “demonstrate financial need”)

• Only PDFs of SAR (using 2016 tax information) may be emailed to scholarships@pauahi.org
• All pages of the SAR are required
• See Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) page

Step 8: Art portfolio (required only for the Ula Baker Sheecha Scholarship and the Native Hawaiian Visual Arts Scholarship)

• Only hard-copy portfolios will be accepted
• Include your name and KAPF ID# on a cover sheet
• Mail to:
  Pauahi Foundation
  Scholarships
  567 South King Street
  Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813
• In-person drop off to:
  Applicant Services Center
  567 South King Street Suite
  Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813

Step 9: Verification of Hawaiian Ancestry

See Hawaiian Ancestry Verification page