Donate

Your generous donations and grants enable F.O.L.K. to support our libraries, literacy, our scholarship recipients, and our community. This includes the Friendly Bus Program, which transports public and private school children from their school to the library for a tour, their own library card, and to check out a book to reinforce the importance of reading.  Through your donations, we can continue our support of the libraries and meet the needs of our Kona communities.

There are several ways you can donate:

1. General Donations: You can simply make a financial donation to F.O.L.K., which we’ll use to support the libraries. Just fill out the form below and choose the amount you would like to donate.
2. Become a Member by completing an online form at: https://folkhawaii.com or fill out our membership brochure located at the Kailua-Kona and Kealakekua libraries.
3. Book Donations: You can donate and deliver physical books to F.O.L.K., and we’ll include them in our monthly book sales. All proceeds will be used to support the libraries. Skip down to the bottom of this page for details.
4. Purchase books for sale at our monthly Kailua-Kona library book sale, biannually at the Kealakekua Library book sale, or purchase books for sale in both library lobbies.
5. Vehicle Donation Program – Call 808-834-6603 to have your working or non-working vehicle, boat, motorcycle, moped, or jet ski picked up. Let them know you want the donation to go to F.O.L.K.
6. Make a Memorial or Honorarium Donation.
7. Donate your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD). Donating a portion of your RMD to a 501(c)(3) non-profit reduces your tax liability. Contact your tax consultant for more information.
8. Donate stock that has been held for more than a year. By donating the stock directly to a charity, there’s no capital gains tax to pay. You can deduct the full fair-market value of the stock from your income taxes.
9. Foodland’s Give Aloha program each September. Customers can donate up to $249, and Foodland and Sack N Save will match a portion of the donation.
10. Benevity – employers donate through this program, which ensures the non-profit is a legitimate 501(c)(3).
11. Mauna Lani’s “Charity of Trees” event – vote for F.O.L.K.’s “book tree”