What is Aloha Harvest? At no charge to food donors or recipients, Aloha Harvest rescues quality excess food from donors which include grocery stores, restaurants, farms and more. Aloha Harvest then delivers that food the same day to food banks and social services agencies who then distribute the food to those in need. For years Aloha Harvest has been making deliveries to our food banks on the North Shore. 

Aloha Harvest is the largest nonprofit doing this work in the State of Hawaii, since 1999 they have rescued over 24 million pounds of quality food which went into hungry stomachs instead of landfills.

Mahalo to Aloha Harvest for being our "heroes" during this unprecedented time. If you would like to partner with Aloha Harvest you will help ease both food insecurity and environmental footprint. Less food in landfills equal less greenhouse gas emissions.

alohaharvest.org/donate-food or 808-537-6945.

Aloha Harvest Rescuing Food to Feed the North Shore Community

Turtle Bay Resort's management team and volunteers from Pono Pacific handed out support kits complete with fresh produce, rice, spam, and eggs along with personal care items like toilet paper yesterday. More than 420 employees participated in the drive-by event at the resort on O‘ahu's North Shore, where they also picked up freshly-grilled hamburgers and hot dogs.

Supplies were purchased by Turtle Bay Resort or donated by local companies like Cackle Fresh Egg Farm and Y. Hata & Co.

Nearly 1,500 pounds of fresh produce like tomatoes and bananas were donated from Kuilima Farms, as part of Turtle Bay and Pono Pacific's newly launched COVID-19 Farmer Produce Purchase Assistance Program.

Turtle Bay Resort hands out fresh produce to its employees

Turtle Bay Resort Hands Out Fresh Produce to Its Employees

Spectrum donated $5,000 to the Hawaii Foodbank, as part of the company’s community philanthropic program, Spectrum Employee Community Grants. The funding will allow the food bank to provide food for more than 12,000 meals to individuals and families in need.

HomeWorld Furniture donated $7,950 to HUGS, Help, Understanding & Group Support, for Hawaii’s seriously ill children and their families. Funds were raised from customer donations through HomeWorld Furniture’s Stressless “Chairity” promotion throughout Oahu, Maui and Hawaii Island.

The Locations Foundation, the independent real estate firm’s charitable foundation, announced the following contributions to local nonprofit organizations that support Hawaii residents affected by the coronavirus:

• 25,000 surgical masks, a $21,000 value, to be distributed to local hospitals and nonprofit organizations that work with the public.

• $5,000 to Hawaii Meals on Wheels, which continues to deliver meals to its most vulnerable clients.

• $5,000 to the Hawaii Foodbank, which has seen a dramatic increase in demand for food.

• $1,750 to Hawaiian Hope to purchase 500 computer mice to complete full computer packages that are distributed to families and children in need of a computer.

Entrepreneurs’ Organization Hawaii, a chapter of the global Entrepreneurs’ Organization, donated $10,000 in protective face masks to The Queen’s Medical Center and other medical providers on Oahu.

Teddy's Bigger Burgers donated 100 meals to The Queen's Medical Center as a "thank you" for its work on the frontlines treating coronavirus patients in the Islands.

Homebridge Hawaii, a mortgage lending firm, is delivering meals to hospital workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis, in partnership with nonprofit med4ourworld. Homebridge delivered 100 meals to The Queen’s Medical Center. Later this month the privately-held firm plans to deliver meals to several other Hawaii health centers including Pali Momi Medical Center, Straub Medical Center and Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.

To help combat the lack of supplies in the Islands, Ohana Health Plan donated 26,000 units of personal protective equipment to Hawaii Healthcare Emergency Management, which coordinates supplies and equipment for health care providers to be distributed to local hospitals.

To support the farmers of Kuilima Farms and the North Shore community during the coronavirus pandemic, Turtle Bay Resort and Pono Pacific have launched the COVID-19 Farmer Produce Purchase Assistance Program. Over the next three months, Pono Pacific will coordinate the purchase of fresh produce grown on the agricultural lands mauka of the Turtle Bay Resort, which will be donated to the Resort’s team members and North Shore residents.

https://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2020/04/17/corporate-citizenship-companies-giving-back.html

Corporate Citizenship: Companies giving back

Corporate Citizenship: Companies Giving Back

by Olivia Peterkin - Web Editor, Pacific Business News

As a way to support farmers in Hawaii's North Shore communities amid the coronavirus pandemic, Turtle Bay Resort and Pono Pacific Land Management LLC recently teamed up to launch the COVID-19 Farmer Produce Purchase Assistance Program.

As part of the program, over the next three months, Pono Pacific will coordinate the purchase of produce grown on the farm lands mauka of the Turtle Bay Resort, which will then be donated to North Shore residents and the resort's employees. Some of the harvested produce that Turtle Bay will purchase include papaya, tomatoes and cucumber.

"Turtle Bay Resort is proud to partner with Pono Pacific to keep our local farmers growing on the North Shore, and ensure no community members go hungry during this difficult time," said Jerry Gibson, vice president of Turtle Bay Resort, in a statement.

Pono Pacific manages the 468-acre farm and will facilitate product purchases from each farmer, who can receive up to $2,500 a month in credit earned from produce purchases.

North Shore community members can pick up free produce from Kuilima Farms on April 17, and 24, as part of H3RC's Food Drop Fridays, a weekly food distribution program for families and individuals in need. Food Drop Fridays are held at 12:30p.m. next to the Pupukea Foodland, across from Shark's Cove.

Kahuku La Hui Foundation recently received 400 lbs of cucumbers and 120 lbs of tomatoes fromt he farmers for distribution to residents in Koolauloa.

Fresh fruit and vegetables are still available for purchase at the Kuilima Farms roadside farm stand located across from Kawela Bay, open daily from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

"We are gratefull that Turtle Bay Resort is stepping up in this time of great need to support our Kuilima farmers, who work hard each and every day to put food on the table for Hawaii's families and supply local restaurants," said Chris Lee, vice president of farm operations at Pono Pacific, in a statement. "This support enables our famers to plan and plant for the future, ensuring that Kuilima Farms can continue to grow fresh produce for our island communities for years to come."

Farmer produce purchase program aids North Shore communities

Farmer Produce Purchase Program Aids North Shore Communities

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