Rohm and Hass Community Partnership Initiative awarded $5,000 to Ambler, Pa., Area YMCA to enhance Health Intervention System for youth.
- January 6, 2009Henry Luce Foundation awarded $400,000 to Orafela Center for Global and International Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, to research impact of religion on humanitarian efforts.
- January 6, 2009Cintas Corporation, Cincinnati, to donate 100 automatic external defibrillators to public school-affiliated groups through end of February.
- January 6, 2009Brookwood Systems, Fremont, Calif., donated interactive personnel directory and map kiosk to Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Mountain View Center.
- January 6, 2009Next Generation Underwriters, Hendersonville, Tenn., sponsored wishes of four local children through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
- January 6, 2009Kaiser Permanente awarded $750,000 to Institute for Healthcare Improvement for IHI Open School for Health Professions, an online health-care education program.
- January 6, 2009Darrell Jodock, professor of religion, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minn., tapped to administer $150,000 grant from Templeton Foundation's Science for Ministry Initiative.
- January 6, 2009Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation awarded total of $600,000 to 21 scholars in Kaufmann Young Scholars Program for entrepreneurial research.
- January 6, 2009Member companies of Delta Dental Plans Association, Oak Brook, Ill., donated total of $62M to support community initiatives that promote oral health.
- January 6, 2009Rasmuson Foundation, Anchorage, Alaska, awarded sabbaticals to eight Alaskan nonprofit leaders.
- January 6, 2009GoDaddy.com, Scottsdale, Ariz., donated total of $1.7M to local, regional, national, international charities for aid to children, teens, medical research, animal shelters, among others.
- January 6, 2009James S. McDonnell Foundation awarded total of $26.7M in 24 grants to study human cognition, brain cancer, complex systems.
- January 6, 2009S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation awarded grant to Chabot Space & Science Center, Oakland, Calif., to support Galaxy Explorers year-round program for high-school students.
- December 30, 2008Macy's donated $1M to Make-A-Wish Foundation, giving one dollar for first million letters to Santa sent through Macy's Believe campaign.
- December 30, 2008Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP donated $1M to Fordham University's law school to create Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP classroom in new law school building.
- December 30, 2008NFC Foundation, charitable arm of Nash Finch Company, donated total of $490,000 to charities serving the Midwest, Great Lakes, Southeastern United States.