Azeka Shopping Center in Kihei is hosting its Holiday Food Drive that begins this week. Donations at bins inside the center's stores go to the Maui Food Bank.

The annual Paddle For Hunger, organized by Hawaiian Paddle Sports to support the Maui Food Bank, will be virtual Nov. 19-25 out of an abundance of caution due to Covid-19.

"This year our goal is to reach 1,000 pounds of food, thats only 24 pounds a day,” said Yanagida Strength and Fitness owner, Justin Yanagida.

This year, 17 businesses raised $16,350 and 3,557 pounds of food, which combined will provide 36,968 meals to individuals and families across the organization's network.

Aubrey Hord Photography on Nov. 16 will launch “Stuff the Studio," an initiative of the Maui Headshot Project to benefit the Maui Food Bank  this holiday season.

A&B Maui employees designated the Maui Food Bank as their grantee of choice, under a   special grant program commemorating the company’s 150th anniversary year. Combined, A&B’s most recent donation totals $6,500.

Maui Mall hosts a Thanksgiving food drive, Nov. 1-20, 2020. Participating merchants, which will have bins for shelf-safe donations within their stores, including: Cricket Wireless, Subway, Genki Sushi, IHOP, Maui County Business Resource Center, Whole Foods and Baskin Robbins.

A drive-thru food distribution event will be held on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020 between 9 to 11 a.m. at the Kalanikahua Hou Chuch in Haʻikū. The food drive is open to the public and attendees are requested to reserve a bag and time slot online or by texting (808) 385-3176.

Homeowners of the Kapalua residential communities held a Community Giveback on Oct. 17 and raised more than $100,000 to purchase food boxes to distribute to more than 1,000 families in need.

The residential communities of Kapalua and their homeowners, Hua Momona Farms and Maui Food Bank have come together to sponsor another Community Giveback on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 8 a.m. at the Kapalua Village Center.

Since mid-March, when the Covid-19 pandemic led to an abrupt shutdown of Maui's tourism economy, emergency food distribution sites have sprung up at more than 30 locations around the island, and on Molokaʻi and Lanai. While residents' needs for food has ebbed and flowed based on government assistance availability, it hasn't gone away. Far from it. Maui County's unemployment remains the highest in Hawaiʻi – and among the highest around the country – at 20.7 percent. The emergency food giveaways continue.

The Realtors Association of Maui concluded its two-week-long "Got Rice?" virtual food drive on Aug. 15, raising more than $7,400 to support the Maui Food Bank. The COVID-19 pandemic has more than doubled the number of food-insecure people from 10,000 people per month to 35,000 people per month. 

Hawaiʻi State Federal Credit Union donated $5,000 and nearly 900 pounds of food to the Maui Food Bank.  

To celebrate its third anniversary today, the company made another cash donation to the Maui Food Bank, bringing its total gift to more than $15,000 since coronavirus response efforts began in March.  

The Realtors Association of Maui launches a two-week-long virtual food drive today to help the Maui Food Bank continue to provide hunger relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. Spearheaded by RAM’s public relations committee, the “Got Rice?” campaign runs Aug. 1 through 15 and aims to collect $10,000 to fill the Maui Food Bank’s shelves with bags of rice.