Starn O'Toole Marcus & Fisher gave $100,000 to the University of Hawaii-Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law to establish the Starn O'Toole Marcus & Fisher Fund for Excellence. The fund will provide scholarships for law students and sponsorship of the moot court program, and continue a lecture series in real estate law, among other programs that support legal education.

Sprint Hawaii donated 20 Tangi ukuleles to the A+ After School Program at Eleele Elementary School on Kauai as part of a program Sprint launched this year to promote Hawaiian-music education in public elementary schools. A portion of the profit from every new Sprint activation and phone upgrade of a qualified music phone is donated to the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation to carry out the initiative.

Castle Medical Center received a $5,000 grant from the Friends of Hawaii Charities to purchase eight chairs for the comfort and recovery of post-surgical joint replacement patients.