Various activities based on Hawaiian culture, resources for artists and musicians, health resources and testing information, ways to donate money to various organizations, and family resources.
Family and general resources for food, financial assistance, and education.
Apply for Aid or leave a tip for Oahu’s displaced restaurant workers. In response to watching restaurants lay off mass amounts of employees across Honolulu, we have decided to band together as a community to support one another. Following the lead of cities around the country, we created a virtual way to tip and support individuals in the restaurant industry. On our web page/ spreadsheet you will find a growing list of Honolulu restaurant professionals (bartenders, servers, hosts, chefs etc.) from your local restaurants who have either currently been laid off due to recent closures or who have had their income dramatically reduced due to COVID-19 and are in need of financial help.
HCF is working in close collaboration with state leaders, non-profit organizations, businesses, and philanthropists to get a clear understanding of the quickly-evolving priorities in our community. Grant reviews happen daily using our four-phase approach to resilience, outlined below. If you are a nonprofit in need of funding, please visit our grantee page here.
Telephone and internet service providers in Hawaiʻi have taken the pledge to not terminate service to any residential or small business for 60 days starting March 16. If you are affected, check the link.
Apply for reliefe or donate: CORE: CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES is dedicated to serving food and beverage service employees with children, who are faced with life-altering circumstances and in need of our help. As the world faces the biggest pandemic in our lifetime, we want to continue to honor our mission by providing support to food and beverage service employees, with children, who have been medically diagnosed with COVID-19.
Apply for relief or donate. Temporarily overwhelmed with applications so check back soon. Will update if it changes and I catch it.
Apply for relief or become a donor
Not yet in Honolulu, but a great project.
We are facing an unprecedented emergency, unlike anything this country has experienced. Beyond the health impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus, our economy has ground to a halt — schools and businesses are closed, travel is restricted, and restaurants face an uncertain future. Traditional safety nets like school feeding programs, childcare services, and senior centers are struggling to stay open.
The reality is stark, but simple: Millions of Americans are out of work and struggling to put food on the table for their families.
But this moment is not without hope. We will get through this, and World Central Kitchen has seen what’s possible as we’ve fought on the front lines in Japan and California deploying systems to deliver meals to quarantined cruise ship passengers. Our Relief Team is now serving nearly 100,000 meals every day across the country, and we need you. Together, #ChefsForAmerica can make sure nobody is left behind.
Key funding for the Aloha State includes:
$1.25 billion to help fund state and county government response efforts;
$1.14 billion in estimated unemployment assistance;
$1.24 billion in estimated direct cash payments to Hawai‘i residents;
$130 million in estimated funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP);
$53 million to support local schools and colleges during the pandemic;
$11 million for Hawai‘i’s community health centers;
$8 million in Community Development Block Grants;
As the COVID-19 situation intensifies daily, Hawaii Foodbank is facing an unprecedented challenge of providing food for people affected by the pandemic while continuing to meet the nutritional needs of 1 in 8 Hawaii residents already struggling with food insecurity. As governments at the local, state, national and global levels are escalating measures to protect public health, we are evolving our contingency plans accordingly.