{"id":1165,"date":"2020-06-19T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/buy-hawaii\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:03:29","slug":"buy-hawaii-give-aloha-portal-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/buy-hawaii-give-aloha-portal-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Hawai\u02bbi, Give Aloha Portal Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1165\" class=\"elementor elementor-1165\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f932cee e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3f932cee\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_use_container_extras&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_column_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_glider_is_slider&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_column_has_pseudo&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f15265f ob-harakiri-inherit ob-has-background-overlay elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1f15265f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_use_harakiri&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_harakiri_writing_mode&quot;:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;_ob_postman_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_widget_stalker_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_poopart_use&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_shadough_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_allow_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><em>Article by Damon Tucker originally published on June 19, 2020 at <a href=\"https:\/\/damontucker.com\/2020\/06\/19\/buy-hawaii-give-hawaii-portal-invitation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">damontucker.com<\/a>. Re-posted here with the author&#8217;s permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p>The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) is launching the Buy Hawai\u02bbi, Give Aloha initiative to assist local businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n<p>To help Hawai\u02bbi companies sell Hawai\u02bbi made products, DBEDT is providing the Buy Hawai\u02bbi, Give Aloha portal at no cost to local businesses. DBEDT will list products on the Buy Hawai\u02bbi, Give Aloha site.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Buy Hawai\u02bbi, Give Aloha (BHGA) website will be a portal that will facilitate shopping on your company\u2019s website. The BHGA portal site will only share information about your website and there will be no purchasing or transactions on the BHGA portal site.<\/li>\n\n<li>The Buy Hawai\u02bbi, Give Aloha portal site is open to all manufacturers and marketplaces of Made in Hawai\u02bbi products with online shopping; however, only products that meet the requirements to be labeled Made in Hawai\u02bbi set forth in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitol.hawaii.gov\/hrscurrent\/Vol11_Ch0476-0490\/HRS0486\/HRS_0486-0119.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a7486-119, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS)<\/a>, may be posted on the BHGA portal site. Companies listing on the Buy Hawai\u02bbi, Give Aloha portal site should have at least 75% of their total product offering being made in Hawai\u02bbi, as per\u00a0\u00a7486-119, HRS.<\/li>\n\n<li>Your company\u2019s website must have the capability to take and fulfill orders online. All customer inquiries and communication will be directed to your company.<\/li>\n\n<li>There is no cost to participate in the Buy Hawai\u02bbi, Give Aloha portal site.<\/li>\n\n<li>DBEDT will conduct a promotional campaign of the Buy Hawai\u02bbi, Give Aloha portal site first targeting Hawai\u02bbi consumers. Later, we will expand promotion to mainland and international consumers.<\/li>\n\n<li>A soft launch of the BHGA website will be in early July, 2020. The official launch will follow in August, 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Register<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Submit one photo and a one sentence description of the featured product(s), a representative photo of your website, and attestment that the product meets the requirements in\u00a0\u00a7486-119, HRS, using the online\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Participant Registration form<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n<li>Companies listing on the Buy Hawaii, Give Aloha portal site should have at least 75% of their total product offering being made in Hawaii, as per\u00a0\u00a7486-119, HRS.<\/li>\n\n<li>Once you submit your registration form, your listing will be reviewed and if approved, uploaded to the portal site. We will notify you via email when your listing goes live.<\/li>\n\n<li>If you have any questions, please contact DBEDT by email at <a href=\"mailto:dbedt.buy@hawaii.gov\">dbedt.buy@hawaii.gov<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Be sure to\u00a0click here to register your business today!<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p><em>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@chelsey-horne-225035\">Chelsey Horne<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/assorted-colors-of-surfboard-757133\/\">Pexels<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) is launching the Buy Hawaii, Give Aloha initiative to assist local businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1170,7057,3496,9128,6496,8975","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[72,70,71],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-486-119","tag-damon-tucker","tag-dbedt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9208,"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/9208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest.hawaii.gov\/hawaii-made\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}