Organizations that scrambled to feed the hungry during the record-long federal government shutdown are hoping that Hawaii continues to respond with donations of food in time for Thanksgiving.

The Hawai‘i Community Foundation did a study years ago that found that a whopping 93% of local residents contribute some form of giving — generosity that continued when the shutdown began Oct. 1, said HCF President and CEO Terry George.

“There continues to be an unbelievable step-up of a variety of donors, including a new set of donors,” George said.

Many of the volunteers who loaded up donated food at pop-up food drives across the islands during the shutdown, which ended Nov. 12, were themselves unpaid federal workers, which George called “pretty remarkable at the same time that many were in line

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