MCDONALD CHARITY RECEIVES $25,000

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawai'i has received a check for $25,000.

The money was raised at the June Jones Foundation QB Golf Classic.

Half of the grant will help families from West Hawai'i; the other half, seriously ill Neighbor Island children.

OHA PROVIDES $15,000 TO CO-OP

Hale Ku'ai Cooperative has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to offer assistance to Native Hawaiian businesses in wholesale distributorship and Internet development.

The cooperative was founded 10 years ago to support economic development for Native Hawaiian entrepreneurs living in the Islands.

The grant will underwrite the assistance program for one year. Its beneficiaries are developers and providers of products and services by Native Hawaiians.

More information is available online at www.halekuai.com.

KALAELOA VETERANS GIVEN A GARDEN

Prudential Locations Foundation and the Honolulu Kiwanis Club have teamed up to develop an organic garden for the U.S. veterans living at Kalaeloa.

In addition, each organization has donated $1,000 toward gardening materials.

The garden will include tomatoes, cabbage, squash, potatoes, lettuce, onions, eggplant and herbs. The veterans will tend to the garden as a joint venture.

Volunteers have built a windbreak around the covered lanai where residents eat their meals, hold meetings and socialize.

BANK FOUNDATION HELPS RED CROSS

The First Hawaiian Foundation has also donated $10,000 to the American Red Cross' Hawai'i State Chapter.

The money is earmarked for the Humanitarian Campaign, a major fundraising effort to assist the agency in providing disaster relief, training and preparedness education and emergency communications in Hawai'i.

$350,000 TO HELP FILIPINOS CELEBRATE

First Hawaiian Bank and its First Hawaiian Foundation have made the lead gift of $350,000 in support of the upcoming centennial celebration of the arrival of the first Filipino farm workers in the Islands.

The one-year celebration begins Dec. 10.

REALTORS HELP HAWAI'I KAI PUPILS

Haha'ione, Koko Head and Kamiloiki Elementary Schools received more than $5,500 worth of donations in the form of digital cameras and new equipment from the Honolulu Board of Realtors' East O'ahu Regional Group.

Five Pentax Optio waterproof digital cameras were presented to the Haha'ione and Koko Head schools.

Kamiloiki Elementary received ink cartridges and 256 Mb memory sticks and seven 512Mb compact flash cards for digital cameras that the school already owns.