The Friends of Operation Manong (FOOM) is a nonprofit organization originally formed as the Friends of PREP (Pre-Freshman Enrichment Project), which provided funds to support a University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) summer enrichment project for under served middle school students.

FOOM was established when the Friends of PREP combined with other fundraising activities conducted by the UHM program, Operation Manong (currently, UHM Office of Multicultural Student Services), to become the Friends of Operation Manong.