Ways to Give
Share Your Aloha
Every gift helps nourish our island community. Hawaiʻi Foodbank offers a variety of ways for you to support our mission — whether through monetary donations, food drives, planned giving, or corporate partnerships. Your generosity provides healthy meals and hope to families, keiki, and kūpuna across Oʻahu and Kauaʻi. Together, we can end hunger in Hawaiʻi.
Support Hawaiʻi Foodbank Your Way
Give Hope, Give Food
Donate Monthly
Donate Online
Donor Advised Funds
Gifts of Stock
Give Food
Planned Giving
Start a Fundraiser
Donate Monthly
Partner with Hawaiʻi Foodbank by Making an Ongoing Gift
As a monthly donor, you will be welcomed into Hawaiʻi Foodbank’s Fight Hunger Hui — a dedicated group of donors who make recurring gifts. This consistent source of support to Hawaiʻi Foodbank enables us to reduce our costs of mailing and postage. Moreover, recurring gifts allow us to focus more resources on programs and less on raising the necessary funds
Why Donate Monthly?
A monthly donation of $10 helps provide food for more than 250 meals throughout the entire year. Our food bank model enables 92% of all expenses to be used to support people in our communities who are in need of food assistance.
Benefits
In addition to providing a consistent support and important nourishment to our neighbors facing hunger, Fight Hunger Hui benefits also include:
- Automatic and convenient monthly donations via credit card or EFT
- Annual statements at the beginning of the year for easy tax preparation
- A quarterly newsletter with updates
- Flexibility to update, change or pause your monthly donation at any time
- Exclusive volunteer opportunities
- Invitations to events to learn more about our work in the community
Already a recurring donor or need to update your gift?
Contact our Development Team at development@hawaiifoodbank.org or 808-954-7875.
Donate Online
Food drives are critical to maintaining the flow of food to those who need it most, helping keep our warehouse and food partner agency shelves stocked while encouraging vital community participation and awareness. Hosting a food drive is a powerful way to connect with your family, friends, neighborhood, office, school, club, congregation and others around our shared mission to nourish our ʻohana. Whether you’re organizing a small gathering among friends or mobilizing your entire workplace, food drives create immediate impact while building lasting connections within your community. Every can, box, and bag collected through your efforts directly supports families facing food insecurity across Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, transforming your generosity into meals that strengthen our neighbors and demonstrate the power of collective action in addressing hunger.
Donor Advised Funds
Donor Advised Funds offer a tax-efficient way to support Hawaiʻi Foodbank’s mission while maximizing your charitable impact. If you have a DAF account with providers like Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, or other sponsoring organizations, you can easily recommend a grant to support our work feeding families across Oʻahu and Kauaʻi. You may designate your grant for general operating support or specify particular programs like Food 4 Keiki, Senior Food Boxes, or disaster response. DAF grants help us plan strategically while providing the flexibility to respond to urgent community needs throughout the year.
Organization Information for DAF Grants:
- Legal Name: Hawaii Foodbank, Inc.
- EIN/Tax ID: 99-0220699
- Address: 2611 Kilihau Street
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96819 - Phone: (808) 836-3600
- Email: [Email Address]
Gifts of Stock
Donating appreciated stocks, bonds or mutual funds to Hawaiʻi Foodbank offers significant tax advantages while maximizing your charitable impact. By giving securities that have increased in value, you avoid capital gains taxes while receiving a charitable deduction for the full fair market value of the gift. This means more of your generosity directly supports our mission to nourish our ʻohana while potentially reducing your overall tax burden. Stock gifts help fund critical programs like Food 4 Keiki, Kūpuna Fresh and ʻOhana Produce Plus — creating lasting impact in our community. Our development team will work with you and your financial advisor to ensure a smooth transfer process and provide proper documentation for your tax records.
Donate Stocks to Hawaiʻi Foodbank
Thank you for your gift of securities to the Hawaiʻi Foodbank to support our mission.
To Contribute Securities or Mutual Funds Electronically:
Your broker can electronically transfer the marketable securities directly to Hawaiʻi Foodbank’s account at Merrill Lynch:
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
1003 Bishop St., Suite 2800 Honolulu, HI 96813
DTC # 8862
RE: Hawaiʻi Foodbank
Account # 145-04E99
Tax ID # 99-0220699
To Contribute Mutual Funds via Non ACAT:
Please reach out to one of the following contacts at Merrill Lynch:
- Kevin Sakamoto
E-mail: kevin_sakamoto@ml.com
Phone: (808) 525-8377 - Grace Watanabe
E-mail: grace_watanabe@ml.com
Phone: (808) 525-8378
Transfers of mutual funds can take approximately 15 business days to complete. All contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent provided by law. Every effort will be made to sell non-marketable securities as quickly as possible. For tax purposes, the value of the stock will be an average of the high and low prices on the date of the gift. Please contact your tax advisor for complete tax deductibility rules.
Questions about donating Stock?
For more information on gifts of stock, contact Lynne Wooddell, Director of Major and Capital Gifts, at lynne@hawaiifoodbank.org or 808-954-7874.
Give Food
Because of Hawaiʻi’s unique geographical location, physical food donations remain an important part of Hawaiʻi Foodbank’s operational model. Your food donations help us quickly stock our shelves and maintain the flow of food to those in need. We obtain food from manufacturers and growers, distributors and wholesalers, grocery stores, as well as community food drives and individual donations. Whether you plan to make a difference on your own, as a member of a team or on behalf of your business — there are a variety of ways for you to donate food.
Planned Giving
Make a big impact with a future gift.
Many supporters of Hawaiʻi Foodbank create planned gifts to make a difference for our hunger relief efforts. Planned gifts often come with great personal and financial benefits and make a lasting impact on our work.
A bequest costs nothing to give today. When you include a bequest to Hawaiʻi Foodbank in your estate plan, your generosity will fight hunger and help ensure no one goes hungry in our community for years to come.
Courtesy of FreeWill, this free, online tool helps you easily create a planned gift to Hawaiʻi Foodbank. You can protect what you love and write your legal will in 20 minutes or less — for free. It can be used with an attorney and can help you include the necessary language to create a planned gift commitment.
Start a Fundraiser
In 34% of households with children, one or more keiki are food insecure.
Do you Want to be a Volunteer?
We’re here to help with your volunteer experience, and we want to find the right opportunity for you! For specific inquiries or to submit your volunteer application, contact us by any of the following methods:
Email Address
Call
Phone: 808-482-2089
Fax: 808-482-2225
Hawaiʻi Foodbank Kauaʻi, Attn: Volunteer Program 4241 Hanahao Pl. Ste. 101., Līhuʻe, Hawaiʻi 96766
