The nonprofit hopes to raise $100,000 from individual and corporate donors by December 31.

New data-driven policy brief from Hawaiʻi Appleseed aims to educate lawmakers on the true nature of the policy proposal contained in this 2024 bill.

Hawaiʻi lawmakers have an opportunity to tailor the sales tax on real property so that it reinvests nonresident wealth into our island communities through affordable housing development.

Extending free meals to all public school students would cost about $25 million per year—about 1 percent of the DOE’s operating budget.

Hawaiʻi lawmakers can improve the economic health of our communities by re-balancing the state’s upside-down tax code.

In a new report, Hawaiʻi Appleseed researchers demonstrate how chronically low wages have prevented Hawaiʻi’s working families from thriving, and outline the significant cost that poverty exacts from these families, from future generations, and from all of us.

The cliff is a result of Congress’ decision to end the federal emergency allotments that were implemented to reduce food insecurity and stimulate the economy for the duration of the pandemic.

These increased rates are projected to bring an additional $8 million a year to Hawaiʻi to support healthy meals for children.

Study aims to ascertain whether or not there are ways to increase housing stability by examining the temporary measures Hawaiʻi put into place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The “Feed our Keiki” report finds that the USDA is providing far less funding to Hawaiʻi than it should, resulting in a financial crisis for Hawaiʻi’s child nutrition programs.

Hawaiʻi Appleseed and Hawaiʻi Children’s Action Network are teaming up to ensure families with keiki can purchase enough food this summer.

Fewer than 1 in 11 keiki in free or reduced-price school lunch were reached by summer meals.

Community organizations respond to delayed start of public school year by keeping keiki feeding sites open.

On May 5, Kamaʻāina Kids will open 9 new sites, including one on Maui.

Suppers being served in Kalihi and new sites in ʻAiea and Honolulu.

During this unplanned school closure, three SFSP sponsors—YMCA Honolulu, Parents and Children Together, and Palama Settlement—are opening food sites in low-income areas on Oʻahu for keiki.

With the new Trump Administration Public Charge rule given the green light today by the U.S. Supreme Court, both Hawaiʻi’s economy and its hardworking immigrant families will suffer.

To effectively address senior hunger, policymakers need to adopt a holistic framework that understands the interplay between public health, economic justice and social capital.

The merger of these social justice organizations is meant to forge a stronger connection between data-driven policy and impacted communities.

The more accurate Supplemental Poverty Measure ranks Hawaiʻi at 13th highest for poverty in the nation.