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UH Foundation Adds Five Staff to its Development Operations

Additions are Four Development Officers and a Director of Donor Relations

(Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) - The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation announces the addition of four new development officers to its fundraising team: Luella Costales, UH Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources; Sue Martin, UH Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine; Catherine Mateja, UH Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi; and Kerri Van Duyne, UH Mānoa College of Engineering. Martha Hanson has also joined as the Foundation’s new director of donor relations.

We are pleased to welcome Luella, Sue, Catherine, Kerri and Martha to our development team and delighted to add such depth to the UH Foundation, said UHF President Donna Vuchinich.

Luella Costales, director of development for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Reources, most recently served as executive director for the Filipino Community Center in Waipahu where her responsibilities included program and fund development for the construction of a multi-million-dollar facility. She also served as director of development and marketing for the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival for nine years. She is a graduate of the University of California San Diego where she earned her bachelor’s degree in communications and visual arts.

Sue Martin brings 20 years of development experience to her position as development officer for the medical school. She joins the Foundation from the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at U.C. Berkeley where she served as the director of development planning for three years. Prior to that she was with Fitzgerald & Graves, a fund raising management consulting firm in San Francisco. She has also held development positions with the San Francisco Zoological Society and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other organizations. Martin earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota.

Catherine Mateja, the Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi’s new development officer, most recently served as associate director of development for Scripps Health Foundation with Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. Her work with the organization included cultivating and soliciting major gifts from individuals and corporations for assigned hospital priorities. She also created and managed the organization’s Friends of the Hospital program. Mateja earned her bachelor’s degree in marketing from Western Michigan University.

Kerri Van Duyne most recently brings her experience as director of annual giving and President’s Club with the University of San Diego to her position with the College of Engineering. During her four years with the institution she increased annual fund income by 104 percent and the number of President’s Club membership by 28 percent. She also served as director of development and alumni relations for California Western School of Law in San Diego and as assistant director of income development for the American Cancer Society’s Honolulu division. She is a graduate of UH Mānoa, earning her bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Martha Hanson brings more than 20 years of development experience to her new position as director of donor relations. She most recently worked as a grant writer in Hawaiʻi and also served as major gifts officer and director of development for The Nature Conservancy of Hawaiʻi. She received her bachelor’s from the University of Iowa and is currently working towards a MLIS degree at UH Mānoa.

About the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation
The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is an independent, university-related, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise private funds according to priorities determined by the academic leadership of the University of Hawaiʻi and approved by the Board of Regents. Founded in 1955, the Foundation provides a full range of fund raising and alumni relations services for all 10 UH campuses. For more information on the Foundation, visit www.uhf.hawaii.edu.