DONATIONS RAISED

Since August 2023, the Kokua Restaurant & Hospitality Fund for Maui has raised and distributed more than $1,220,000 to over 1,200 restaurant, bar and hospitality workers impacted by the devastating Maui wildfires. HACA has been unwavering in its commitment to ensure that every dollar of the donations received are directly channeled to those affected by the fires.

Originally established as an emergency relief fund during the pandemic, the Kokua Restaurant & Hospitality Fund has been a beacon of hope for Maui’s culinary and visitor industry, which comprises 80% of Maui’s economy. The one-time $1,000 disbursement to eligible individuals offered tangible assistance in their journey to rebuild.

While the Kokua Restaurant & Hospitality Fund’s Maui relief efforts have come to a close, Hawaii Ag & Culinary Alliance remains committed to expeditiously disbursing the remaining funds to eligible waitlisted individuals that applied last year. Moving forward, while the fund for Maui wildfire victims has concluded, the Kokua Restaurant & Hospitality Fund will remain an integral part of HACA’s programs, ready to be activated to provide support for restaurant, bar and hospitality workers if unforeseen hardships impact the industry.

Mahalo to our Donors

$25,000 OR MORE

Beavercreek Crossing LLC

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Foley Family Charitable Foundation

Hilo Fish Co., Kona Fish Co., Tropic Fish Hawaii, Tropic Fish Maui, Tropic Fish Kauai

Hotel Wailea

Jozu Consulting

King's Hawaiian

Matthiasson Family Vineyards

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits

TAG Restaurant Group Denver

$24,999-$15,000

Clover Club

Destination Hospitality Group & Aurum Maui

Internation Site Foundation

Raphael Lunetta of Lunetta with Josiah Citrin of Citrin and Suzanne Tracht of Jar

 

ment'or Giving Fund

John & Bonnie Phillips

The Quiet Woman

 

$14,999-$10,000

Au Bon Climat Winery

b. Patisserie

Bernardus Winery

Caleb Chan

The Cherry Company, Ltd.

Christopher and Joanne

Mark & Janice Dickson

iichiko USA, Inc.

Lynn & Jim Lally

Nobu & Yoko Matsuhisa

Messermeister

 

Pebble Beach Company

Susan O'Shaughnessy

Walter and Shirley Wang Foundation

Roy Yamaguchi

Roy & Denise Yamaguchi

$9,999-$5,000

Bill's Blend Wine

Campari Group

Casa Komos Beverage Group

Charlie's Mountain View

Chef Works

Sara Craig-Scheckman

Stewart Fuller

Hammes Foundation

Jeff Hermanson

Kaimana Beach Hotel

Lehua Linen Supply

Life Community Church

Jonathan McManus

McNellie's Group

Scott and Virginia Reiman and the Reiman Foundation

Keaka Robinson

Rosewood Miramar Bch Montecito

SACYARD Community Tap House

Dave & Kat Uchimoto

Eric Ziebold

$4,999-$2,500

Admiral Travel Fund at the Community Foundation of Sarasota

Assouline Publishing

County

DBillian

Shannon Divers

Lee & Catherine Evans on behalf of our friends at Hotel Wailea

Flour Dust Pizza Co.

Steven Funkhouser

Jeff Gross

J Michael Hemmer

Hudson Valley Foie Gras

In remembering of Earl Livengood

Rosewood Sand Hill

Rosewood Washington DC

Signia by Hilton San Jose

Wanda Watumull

$2,499-$1,000

Byron Ackerman

Sig Anderman

Association of Chinese Cooking Teachers, Inc. and Yan Can Cook, Inc

Brian & Maryann Barry

Carla & Richard Betts

Craig Bixel

Sharon Brown

C4 Table

Mary Campbell

Tony Caruso

Carlisle Winery

Meredith Ching

Coastal-Pacific Wine & Spirits of Hawaii

Crown Point Catering, Inc.

District Kitchen + Cocktails

Emeril Lagasse Foundation

The Fish Express Kauai

Food Fleet

Chris and Kristen Foster

Jackie Rey's Ohana Grill Hilo

For Grandma Jean

Jeanne K Murata

Hanaoka Farm

Edwin & Vivian Hayashi

Dan I'Anson

Inter-Island Solar Supply

KK

Kauai County Farm Bureau

Kawamata Farms LLC

Shari and Bob Levitan

Alisha & Michael/Maison d'Amis

Manolis

MAPP

Marcel & Lynn

McKenna Family Giving Fund

Mick and Cindy McCaffrey

North Shore Cab Company

Old Thousand

Old Thousand No 2

Mark and Sharon Oldham

PLA Sports Bar

The Queensboro

Rail Trail Flatbread Co.

Rokaru Shabu Shabu

RYLA

Sandy and Dave

Scruton Family

The Sitver Foundation

Stamps Design Group

Cynthia Takenaka

Alan Tada c/o Flowers Forever LLC

Teremana Tequila

Kent Torrey

Vanderhooft Family

Bruce Wanta

Mark & Karen Weber

Ron Wheeler & Etienne Taenaka

Wisconsin Ohana with Ono Kine Grindz LLC, Uncles David & Guy

Alan Wong Restaurants Inc.

Young Brothers, LLC

$999-$500

Ananya Arora - Fund the Future at Whitney High School

Bangkok Chef

Bar Kumiko

Rick Bayless

The Douglas and Inyoung Boyd Foundation

Brew'd

Brick and Dough/Montclair, NJ

J&C Briscoe

Veronica & Lance Brown

Bull Valley Roadhouse Port Costa, CA

Dean & Gail Bunce

Cyril & Blakesley Chappellet

The Cheesecake Factory

Cleary/Spear Family Fund

Cool Cat Cafe SLO-Pismo Beach

Shanny Covey

Cropsticks Inc

Pat & Debbie Delander

Dennis

Kim & Mohana Dissanayake

Egermayer Ohana

Catherine Faber

Former Pioneer Inn Grill Cook

Bonnie Fraser

Neal and Amy Fraser of Redbird

Geralyn

Globe Travel, North Bend Oregon

Doug & Shane Godfrey

Kay Goodsill

Gordon Ohana

The Gourmandise School

Brandon Hamada

Jill Hargrove Brownson

Stephanie and Pete Harris

Hawaiian Pie Company

HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union Foundation

C4 Hazama Ohana

Hitides Coffee - The Dawbarn Family

Jack & Carolyn

Jay

Joey's Kitchen, Napili - Thanks for making so many meals for the Lahaina folks. Mahalo.

John Anthony Family of Wines

Pam Kaneshiro

Reid Kavieff

Kentros Ohana

Ann Kobayashi

Paul Lato Wines

Karyn Lee

MB Post

The Martin Family Houst

Mary

Mason Bar & Kitchen

Massanutten Resort

Duff McKagan

Mediahub

Freidalane Menezes

The Merchant Kitchen & Drinks

Patricia McCoy-Taylor

MIBE and Footers Catering

Novo Restaurant

Kit Okazaki

Dean J. Okimoto

Pat

People Function

Tania Pouschine

Rooster Creek Tavern

Rosewood São Paulo

Martha Sandoval

Linda Sanpei

Leslie Santilli

Gladys Sato

Russell and Janet Sato

Seisuke Knife

Emil Shallon

Sheila and Arpad

Mary Beth Shields

Aaron Silverman

Andrea McManus-Stare

Margie & Brian Starr

Susanne

Stacey Suzui

Sycamore, Newton MA

Adele M. Tennant

Dr. Walter Tom

Darren & Luly Unemori

Andrew Valdivia

Venus Spirits Cocktails and Kitchen

Mark and Jill Wambold

Dennis White

Leslie Sinclair von Wiesenberger

Nicholas Wisner

Yaris Ohana

Greg Young

Leslie Yuan and David Aaronson

$499-$250

Abaluche Wine Company

Abba Technologies

Cassidy Apo

Sharon Brown Bacon

Mason Bacot

Noel, Miguel, Leo & Izumi Bahamon

Baker Family of Montana

Shannon Bergau

In the Name of Bill Bradley

Barbara Brietigam

Butler and the Board

Mary Ann Byrd

Kate Cagle

Carrie

Darrell Cass

Jo Ann Chang

Chiasson Family

Chibi Confectionery

Chisolm Ohana

Citizen

Claudia Clearly

Christian Comito

James & Diana Crane

Creative Productions

Marcille & Kermit Crossland

John D'Amato

Deena, Joe, Jax, Jru & Jet Datu

Leiala Dentino

Dolphin Bay Resort & Spa

Terry & Jennifer Doty

Down The Hatch

Ernie, Lisa and Yumi

Rick Esposto

Kathy Fleming

Flying Saucer

Bruce Frame & Family

Nora Frazier

Friends in Los Angeles

Friends of Lunetta

From Your Brothers at Big Sky Cafe, San Luis Obispo, CA

Jenn Goodman

Tim & Nancy Greenstreet

Terri & Bill Grover

Ryan and Lauren Hamaguchi

The Hansen Family

Neil Hashimoto

Ken Hayashida

Karen Henderson

Herbert Ohana Toad Lake

Herlinda

Paul Hodgen

Island Restaurant Concepts

Leigh Ito Ohana

Jasmine & Phil

Cindy Johnstone

Richard and June Kanazawa

In honor of the marriage of Alex Kasser and Nichola Samponaro

Reid Kavieff

Hubert & Chantal Keller

Martha L. King

Kimpton Sawyer Hotel

Kip Koll

Vic and Cathy Labayog

Timothy Larson

Benson Lau Ohana

The Lau-Grover Ohana

Paahana, Aya & Baby Grey Leslie

Allegrucci Lisa

Luna Red

LynnM

Maddie & Kanaloa

Makaha Studios

Teal Marx

Teri Matsukawa

Sally McGill

MetroGrow Hawaii

Mike

B & I Mizuguchi

Greg Mowrer

Rick Nahmias & Stevel Kadel in honor of Clement Gossett & Minh Phan

 

Nina & Jean-Paul

Barbara O'Connor

Nick and Heather Panaccio

Vaibhav D. Panchal (The Quarterdeck Seafood Restaruant, Arroyo Grande, CA)

Peter and Jannette

Katherine L.F. Penner

Barbara Petersen

Chelsea and Jeff Peterson

Rebecca Pollack

Jeff S & Cheri Porter

Adrienne Radzvickas

Donna and Lyonel Reinhardt

Laurel & Craig Robertson

Erin Rose

Sandy

Sanger Family

Sallie and Scott

Shelly & Jared

Skurnik Wines & Spirits

Greg Smyser

Liz Stanton-Barrera

Dr. Frank & Linda Surdakowski

George Szigeti

Jeff and Samantha Szombaty

Sheri

Stephen Tevees

STHS Class of 73 Lake Tahoe

TGDG

Thank you RYLA

Sam Treadway

Uehara's

Stephen & Judith Wahlberg

Wallaces

Walpole Family

Nicholas Whaley

Cory & Tanya Wheeler

Danni Williams

Marc Wims

Brooke Winter

$249-$100

A Friend

Shellie A

Adams

Melinda Adams

Nick Agrusa

Allison & Allen Anderson

Tom Anderson

Ann

Anonymous from Economy, PA

Bob Armstrong

Arthur

Allen & Corinne Arquero & Family

Masato Aso

Susan B

Andrew Baca

Barr's Public House

Memory of Frank Bauer

Caroline Bednar

Stan & Rosanne Beldowicz

Ben and Lex

Bernice & Mark Benedict

Lori Bergen & Charles Mangano

Paul Best

Beth & Joe

Deniz Bicioglu

Anne Bisio

The Blair Family

Janet Bliden

Debi Weiller Bock

Cindy Boese

Jonny Borok

Victoria Bouttavong

Patricia M Bradley

Nancy Bret

Donna and Aaron Bromley

Dennis Brophy and Cathy Gwinn

P. Brown

Kathleen Bryant

Steve and Irma Canzano

David Catalan

Caren

Sylvia Carter

Mark Ching

Lori Chung

Erin & Rich Clark

Cynthia

Teresa Daggett

Sally David

Bobbie Davies

DDM

DeFrate & Paavola, LLC

Demetra

Denise

Dennis & Chris

Dennis & Takako

The DiThomas Family

Alacia and Dave Eicher

Elisabeth and Roland from Germany, Hotel Wailea Guests

Herman A Ellis

Ellison Family

Eppes Essen Restaurant

Eugene

Fairweather Family

Tanya Feldman

Mr. & Mrs. Evan Finchler

Leah Fitzgerald

Christine Flynn

Thomas Fong

Linda Forsberg

Debby Foster

Lisle Friedman

Lynette Furuhashi

Gallagher Family

Gary & Barbara

J. Gaudet Associates

Roman Gaytan

Greg Gearhart

Allal Gogo

Karen Gold

Sharon Goldgar

The Goldman Family

Gourmet Foods Hawaii - Macarons for Maui Promotion

Greenfield Klosowski Charitable Gift Account

Amy Guills & Jim Savas

Don Haaga Jr

Elaine Workman Hall

Mona Halverson

Daniel Hamill

Harbor Cove Lodge, Big Beach Lake, CA

Barbara Harris

Karen Harris

Constance Hardy

Lauren Hayutin

Jeanna Heck McCann

Karen & Dennis Heinz

Janice Heppe

Mona Kim Hernandez

Loreen Hillier

Paul Hodgen

Kevin Hogarty

Hillary & Matthew Holian

Hospitality Veteran Praying for All

Hudak Family

Kathleen Hughes

Steven Hutton

J & C

Gerri & Steven Jacobs

Arnold Jacobson

Jacquie

Jama

Janet

Suzy Janson

Caroline Jared

Jim & his wife

Francis T & Lisa Jennings

JNR Incorporated

Tammy Jo

Joe

Marilyn Johnson

Art and Linda Jones

Juan

Julie

Kanoelehua

Ron Kashiwase

Kazu

Keiko

Terry L Killian

Jill Kirk, Gina Hull, Terri Rabadi

Kokua Sun Care

Karen Kjarsgaard

Shelley Kleysteuber

Lisa Knapp

Knead Bagels

SiuYin Ko

Megan Koenig

Kovacs

Kushigemachi Family

Lana & Jim

Tracy Landauer

Laura and Steve

Dat Le

Leah

Connie Lentz

Estee Levine-Little

Anita Lichter

Letitia Lindsey-Bennett

Kristin Lindow

Lisa

Lisa Liviakis

Lori

Lucille

JoAnna Lucsko

Kathy Mackie

Shannon Madison

Steven Mahoney

MAJ

Stuart & Wendy Malmid

Scott Malouche

Ruth Malyjurek

Maona Lunch Counter

Margaret

Susanne Margis

Mark

Chris Martin dill

Gil and Melissa Martinez

In Memory of Helene & Marvin Master

MB

Alberta McCabe

Rear Admiral Bill McDaniel

Timothy McFadden

Ken McFarland

Patrick McKenna

Rachel McNally

Desiree McPherson

Janice McPherson

Lisa Marie Menegatos

William Merrill

Mia

Midwest Healthcare Consultants

Jill Miller

Lisa Miller

K&M Minor

Missy

Mizuno/Gerken Family

Kimberly Morley

Robert Joseph Morrow

Amy Muramatsu

Nadv

Ken Nagai

Steph Nagami

Nancy & Larry

Lisa Narrow

Lisa Nassar

Jeffrey Nerland

Rosanne and Mike Ogles

Old Port Advisors/Fred & Sylvia Williams

Olivia

Sandi & Ish Ordonez

Margie Ortez

Patty P

Jill Palagi

Kathy Palmer

Lou and Carol Pavlina

Monte & Brenda Peckinpah

Erik & Cheryl Peterson

Pismo Fish and Chips

Leigh Plue

Debra Pollock

Louie and Margo Poloni

Denise Power-de Bray & Family

Prayers to Maui - Cat from Virginia

Preston Family

Randy and Lori

Ray

Renee

Katie Renshaw

John & Sharman Reyes

Rich

Sally Richards

Elizabeth Ripotola

The Ristow Family

Miriam Rivera

Nicole Rompasky

Jeanne Rosenkranz

Russ

Keely Ryan

Debbie S

Jennifer Salbino

San

Sandra & Marc

Sunny Sanoff

Irene Sasaki

Joan Schmidt

Scott, Courtney & Stella Schmitz

Marcia Schultz

Marianne & Scott Schultz

Sue Selby

Shiflett Family

Jessica Silvestre

Dennis & Susan Spence

John & Lexie Smith

Rich Smith

Sharal Greg Honey Bee Smith

Jim & Donna Smollen

Sprout

Steffora Family

Laura Stephenson

Robert and Paula Stern

Steven

Micaela Stewart

Mr/s. Stockdale

Stone House Restaurant

Lynda Stone

George and Kathleen Stupski

Wendy Suite

Larry Sumitani

Susan in Florida

Swith

Brian & Jan Taniguchi

Sandra Taylor

Michael Thompson

Susie Timm

Carol Timmerman

Tina

John Tinklepaugh

Tom

Barbara Tom

Allison Tong

Deb U

Michela U

Bob Veazie

Philip and Margaret Verleger

Deborah Viney

David Walker

Irving Wander

Kelli and Peter Watkins

Ellen and Elliot Weiss

Kathy Weller Art Ideas

Terri Wieth, Coos Bay Oregon

Will Weston

Greg & Margie Williams

Suzanne Willis

Wing & Isabella

Gregg & Chelsea Yamauchi

Kristine Yang

Michael Yatabe Family

The Young Family

JoAnn Yuki

Mindy Z

Steve Zell

$99-$50

Abbie

Peggy Terrell Alexis

Shelley Anderson

Gwenne Baile

Elena Bartlett

Jeanne and Tony Bashall

Gail Bernard

Joanne Bianchi

Paola Bianchi

Susan Bielawski

Billie

Robin, Mark & Carly Brodsky

Carol Carlson & Don Brown

Suzie Burley

Peter Cheng

Agnes C.T.

Adam & Michelle Collette

Robin Courter

Tim Damgaard

Marin Cartier Delfino

Megan Dempsey

Caroyln Dillard

Sharon Dinh

Andy E.

Ellie

Ellie MacPherson

Erika ~ Sabrina

Robin Fogel-Shrive

Former Kahako St. Resident

Shirley Fraser

Bret Gary

Randy Gerard

Diane & George Gillespie

Martha Gonzales

Greg and Sandy

Brenda Griffith

Debra Guzak

Stephanie Hayes

Hhamada

Carey Hunter

The Hernandez Family

Irene

Arnold Jacobson

Mark Jimenez

Zachary Johnson

Kallie

Stacy Kadisak

Katy

Donald Keyes

Janet Kiley

Anne Kissner

Kris

Lanzerotti Family

Suzanne Lawson

Brenda Lee

Jennifer Lee-Drost

Carole Lefcourte

Les

Carla Lewis

Lin

Deborah D. Linton

Joel Magad

Maren

Michelle Markoski

S Maynard

Cristy McDowell

Bill and Jo McKie

Caroll Michaels

Lisa Mulherin

Carolyn Muzyka

Nancy

Micah Nelson

Mariko Nishida

Frank & Adry & Lulu Pang -Fort Cavazos, TX

Suzy Parker

Kalynn Pempek

Katherine L.F. Penner

Reaser Family

Ariel Rivers

RMP

Kristin Scafidi Robinson

Nina J. Ross

S

Amber S.

KSakai

Sandy

Allyson Scholz

Jeff Sigala

Don Sorby

Joanne Spelbrink

Lucille & Michael Spinozzi

Hannah Springer

Charlie Stinton

Elizabeth and Mario Strano

Leia Strong

In Memory of Bernard and Julia Sulsky

Flora Tanaka

Holly and David Tamosaitis from SGWS-IL

Stephany Tefarikis

Teresa

Terri & Barry

Milly Theis

Clif Thompson

TSB

Vanessa

Dan and Donna Wecker

West Coast Fam

Allison Witcher

Roger White & Nancy Hansen

Kathryn Wood

Suzanne Yes

Jan Yoshioka

Linda Young

$49-$1

A

Alex

George Apter

Erin Archer

Tracey Baker

Be

Beth

Christine Besnard

Bliss

Tom Bradner

In Honor of Stan Borg

Natasha Bourlin

Dennis Bowman

Earl Brown

Jessica Bullion

AnnMarie Caldwell Realtor

Carole

Casey

Cathy

Marissa S. Celeste

Jesse Chavarria

I Ping Chiu

Kyle Christiansen

Heather Clark

A Cooch

Carl Corsi

Kenny Corum

Rhoda Criado

Darla Crowder

Barry D Culbreath

Cindy L Danish

Debra

Deeva

Barbara Dawn Delaney

Aislinn DeButch

Diaz Family

David DiBiase

Doki

Devin Drake

Lisa & Kevin Dunn

Melissa Dupuis

Hanna Empen

The Escalon Family

Estella Euclide

Tracey Erker

Alicia Evans

Martha Fiffer

Michael Fujioka

Tonya G.

 

Karen Gallagher

Stephen Gambone

Lindsay Gibbs

Lesley Gibson

Pia Laura Glaciale

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Gre

Susan Hall

Vince and Dee Hancock

Melanie Hayes

Amy Hesley

Aya Ichida

Louise Ing

Grant Itomitsu

Evelyn M Jackson

Deborah Jagers

Jaime

Kimberly James

Nancy Jenny

Linda Jensen

Theresa K

Abby Kallenbach

Mike Kido

Kristine

Kristy

Julie Kuros

Andrew Kurtz

Aggy Kusunoki

Kathleen Lane

Edward Lawson

Friend of Arthur Leduc in KC

Joel Lee

Mark Lewis

Omarr Lewis

Lisa Licavoli

Tonya Lockard

Alice Losoya

Kelli Lundgren

Ms. Kitty the Pup

Taylor Majek

Laura M. Mancine

Mario

Paula L Martinez

Rick and Bonnie Mereness

Michele

Caitlin Middleman

Betty Miller

Emily Mitchell

Monchelle

Julie Moroz

Natalie

Barbara Newton-Holmes

Kim Norfleet

Jacquie Orr

Paige

Joan Pilat

Tara Pottinger

Tony Procaccini

Ellen Quinn

Micheal R.

Aisha Rahman

Red

Ryan Riggins

Beverly Robertson

Jonathan Robin

Rockpipe

Lisa Rodriguez

Ron

Mimi Rose

Joni Riley

S

Carey Sabala

April Santos

Saraa

Tonya Schafer

Colleen Schultz

Ronda Sheldon

Shi

Brandon & Samantha Signorino

Avrom Simon

SiriusXM Corporate Match

Dennis A. Smith

Deborah Sonoda

Ben Steiner

Tilly Stella

Suzanne & Ken

Kai Suzuki

Wayne Tike

David Torres

Val & Taylor

Ellen Van Renswoude

Cheryl Wakerhauser

Mr. & Mrs. Wesbrook

Lisa Whalen

Janet Whitley

Ronnie & Ivor Whitson

Rick Williams

Christine Wood

Raymond Young

Ronald Zino

 

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