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What If Your Giving Could Become More Than a Donation?
Discover how your support can help Hawaiʻi families access food, essential resources, housing assistance, educational opportunities, and a stronger foundation for the future.
From Giving to Impact
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Free webinar • Learn how you can make a meaningful difference
Every Family Deserves a Foundation to Thrive
Behind every need is a person. A parent deciding between rent and groceries. A student starting the school year without supplies. A family one setback away from losing stable housing. These are neighbours, coworkers and classmates — and the gap between getting by and going without is often smaller than it looks.
Meet COTA Foundation
COTA Foundation is a faith-based Hawaiʻi nonprofit serving individuals and families in need. We provide hot meals, clothing, hygiene essentials, household goods, housing assistance, scholarship funding and school supplies, alongside youth and community initiatives — so every person has the foundation to thrive.
- Dignity
- Aloha
- Equity
- Transparency
- Community
- Sustainability
Inside This Free Webinar, You'll Discover:
Meet the Need
How COTA responds
Hot meals, clothing, hygiene essentials, household goods, housing assistance and scholarship funding — what that looks like week to week.
Strengthen the Family
Beyond immediate relief
Why stability, education and community belonging turn short-term help into a lasting foundation.
Join the Solution
Your place in the work
Practical ways to take part — giving, recurring support, sponsorship, donating goods, or serving alongside us.
Who Should Attend
Individual donors
You want your giving to reach real families, and to see exactly how.
Business owners
You want community impact your team and customers can stand behind.
Churches & faith communities
You are looking for a trusted partner serving neighbours in need.
Community organizations
You want to coordinate resources rather than duplicate effort.
Volunteers
You have time, skills or aloha to offer and want somewhere it matters.
Potential sponsors
You are considering longer-term support for a specific program.
Imagine What Happens When a Community Comes Together
One meal becomes a steady table. One set of supplies becomes a confident first day of school. One family staying housed becomes a neighbourhood that holds.
Reserve my free seatWhat Your Support Can Help Make Possible
Hot meals
Prepared food for families and individuals facing an empty table.
Clothing
Clean, appropriate clothing for work, school and daily life.
Hygiene essentials
The basics that protect health and personal dignity.
Housing assistance
Support for families working to stay housed or get re-housed.
Scholarships
Scholarship funding that opens doors to education.
School supplies
The tools students need to start the year ready.
Household essentials
Goods that make a house function as a home.
Community support
Youth and community initiatives that build belonging.
Shaunna Cota · Founder, COTA Foundation
Why COTA Exists
COTA Foundation was founded on a simple conviction: no one in our community should go without the basics that make daily life possible. The work is faith-based and community-rooted, built around dignity rather than charity — meeting practical needs today while helping families build something steadier for tomorrow.
In this webinar, Shaunna shares what COTA does, who it serves, and how anyone who wants to help can find a real place in the work.
Giving Should Be Built on Trust
- Nonprofit status
- 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
- EIN
- 39-2930549
- Annual reports
- Available on request
- Program information
- Shared during the webinar
Questions about how support is used? Contact us at cotafoundation9@gmail.com or (772) 212-0778.
From Giving to Impact
Come and see the work for yourself. There is no pressure to give — only an invitation to understand.
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