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A shared responsibility.

As a non-profit organization, Helping Hands Hawai'i relies on a number of sources for its operating revenues. In addition to the Aloha United Way, state agencies, and local and national government, private and corporate foundation gifts play a significant role in our ongoing success.

The value of each contribution to Helping Hands Hawai'i, whether it is made in dollars or time in service, is multiplied by the proficiency of its staff. 92% of every charitable dollar received goes directly to program funding, not to administrative costs. With over 70 full-time and 60 part-time employees, 3,750 volunteers who log nearly 140,000 hours annually, and an operating budget of just over $6 million, Helping Hands Hawai'i serves more than 250,000 families and individuals through some 700 human service agencies across Oahu.

No matter which form of planned giving you choose, your charitable gift to Helping Hands Hawai'i will impact our community now and for generations to come. Because you care, you can help to foster new levels of human opportunity and achievement and, by doing so, infuse the entire spectrum of Helping Hands Hawai'i with your singular imprint.

The charitable gift you make today will help to complete the circle of concern fostered by Helping Hands Hawai'i ensuring that our community and its people remain united in both purpose and promise.



Hands that complete a circle of concern.

With a mission to connect individuals, families, and organizations with available resources, both human and material, Helping Hands Hawai'i's programs and services embody, at their very core, the ideal of a shared responsibility within our community. Founded on the principles of ohana, or family, Helping Hands Hawai'i is built upon a solid foundation of charitable giving. This sharing of resources, especially from private, corporate and
foundation gifts is at the heart of our ongoing success.

Hands that create a lasting legacy.

Your charitable donation to Helping Hands Hawai'i is not only a direct demonstration of your empathy and concern, it is an investment in our community… a way of ensuring that your generosity continues to have a positive and enduring effect on our organization, its work, and ultimately the very quality of life across Hawai'i.

Incorporated in 1974, Helping Hands Hawai'i evolved from the establishment of the Honolulu Council of Social Agencies' Volunteer Placement Bureau in 1941. One of the most cost-efficient and effective non-profit agencies in the State, Helping Hands Hawai'i acts as a liaison between all sectors of the community, matching human need to the delivery of human services. Through this unique management style, Helping Hands Hawai'i brings people together in service to Hawai'i's community at large, administering a group of interrelated programs that provide a comprehensive approach to solving a myriad of social problems.

In addition, Helping Hands Hawai'i facilitates numerous other projects, including the Honolulu Advertiser's Christmas Fund, the Honolulu Star Bulletin's Good Neighbor Fund, the Adopt-a-Family Program, and the Baby Layette Project, which assists new mothers by providing the basic items for a newborn child.

Planning your gift to Helping Hands Hawai'i is the best way to provide for ongoing funding for our activities, to gain important financial benefits for you or your family, and to fulfill your charitable goals. The following "menu" outlines the specific areas through which your tax-deductible contributions to Helping Hands Hawai'i may be directed.

They provide unique charitable giving opportunities for the commemoration of your own name or that of a loved one, family, organization or corporation.

Hands that plan for tomorrow.

• Bequests
  You can name Helping Hands Hawai'i as a beneficiary under your will in several ways: as the recipient of an outright gift, either in a designated amount or as a percentage of your estate; or as a residuary beneficiary to receive sums after specific amounts have been paid to other beneficiaries. Adding Helping Hands Hawai'i to your will can be simply accomplished through a codicil without rewriting your entire will.

• Real Estate
  Your residence, vacation home, acreage (including a farm) or unimproved parcel of land may have appreciated so significantly in value that its sale would generate a substantial income tax. By making a gift of a full or partial interest in real estate to Helping Hands Hawai'i, you can avoid tax on the long-term capital gain and generate an income tax charitable deduction for the full fair market value of the property. It is also possible to make a gift of your primary residence or second home while retaining an exclusive life estate so that you (and your spouse) can continue to use it for the remainder of your lifetime(s) while earning significant tax and estate planning benefits.
  
  
• Life Insurance
  A gift of life insurance can provide a meaningful charitable deduction. By transferring your policy to Helping Hands Hawai'i as owner and beneficiary while remaining the insured, you can deduct the cash value of the policy as a charitable gift. You may make annual gifts to Helping Hands Hawai' which will be used to pay the policy premiums, and you can deduct these gifts for income tax purposes.

• Charitable Gift Annuity
  This is not a trust, but a contract between you and Helping Hands Hawai'i through which the organization pays you (or any other designated individual) an annuity in exchange for your contribution. The annuity is in a fixed dollar amount and depends upon the age(s) of the annuitant(s) when the plan is purchased. An income tax charitable deduction applies for a portion of the purchase price and an additional savings is earned on capital gains taxes if appreciated securities are used to fund the plan. A portion of each annuity payment is made to you tax-free.

• Charitable Remainder Unitrust
  Used as an anticipated hedge against inflation, this is an irrevocable trust under which fixed-rate payments, as set out initially in the trust, are paid to an individual or individuals for life or for a term not to exceed twenty years. The annual payment is calculated by multiplying the annual revaluation of the trust's investments by the fixed rate. Whatever remains in the trust at the end of its term (life or number of years) goes to Helping Hands Hawai'i in honor of the donor.

• Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust
  Similar to the Unitrust, this plan has a fixed rate as well. However, once the rate is multiplied against the initial contribution to the trust, the annuity amount is fixed permanently. In this way, you can assure a fixed annuity for the full term of the trust without risk that the trust may lose value in its investments due to market conditions. Again, Helping Hands Hawai'i receives whatever remains in the trust at the end of its term in honor of the donor(s).
  
  In both types of Charitable Remainder Trusts, a contribution of appreciated property (securities, real estate, or personal property) enables you to avoid tax on any long-term capital gain. In this way, you can contribute highly appreciated property that provides a low return of income to gain a higher fixed rate in your trust without having to recognize the capital gain for individual income tax purposes.

• Charitable Lead Trust
  An opposite of the Charitable Remainder Trust, this plan pays an annuity or unitrust amount to Helping Hands Hawai'i for a term of years and then returns the property to the donor or pays it over to other named individuals at the end of trust's term. This plan can be effectively used to shift ownership of a valuable property to the next family generation at a very low estate or gift tax cost.

Information contained on this web site is not intended to represent legal or tax advice or to substitute for such advice. Individuals are urged to consult with their professional advisors when considering charitable planned giving transactions. All matters set out herein should be considered in light of the effect, in any of the Alternative Minimum Tax.

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Helping Hands Hawaii
2100 North Nimitz Hwy
Honolulu, HI. 96819