Kyoto Symposium Organization, San Diego Foundation announced six recipients of 2008-2009 $10,000 Kyoto Scholarships, recognizing high school seniors from San Diego County and greater Tijuana region.
- November 20, 2008eQuilter online quilting resource awarded $600,000 to Engineers Without Borders-USA for water filtration and energy solutions in Rwanda.
- November 20, 2008American Society of Media Photographers awarded $85,000 to Picture Licensing Universal System Coalition for work to simplify image-rights management.
- November 20, 2008East Bay Community Foundation, Oakland, Calif., awarded $15,000 to Super Stars Literacy to help provide after-school literacy instruction in East Bay area.
- November 20, 2008Estate of Robert and Catherine McDevitt awarded $50M, mostly in IBM stock, to Le Moyne College, Syracuse, N.Y., to endow computer science, information, physics, religious philosophy.
- November 20, 2008Wallace Foundation awarded $7.7M to support arts organizations in Seattle, and promote audience-building.
- November 20, 2008Rohm & Hass awarded $30,000 to Musicopia, Philadelphia, to launch Adventures Through Music program in Upper Dublin, Wissahickon school districts.
- November 20, 2008MetLife Foundation awarded $500,000 to Trust for Public Land to expand and renovate playgrounds in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta.
- November 20, 2008Regence Foundation awarded total of $350,000 to organizations in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Washington State to improve health-care access.
- November 20, 2008McCormick Foundation awarded over $2.9M from funds collected through Welcome Back Veterans partnership with Major League Baseball for mental health, job placement for veterans.
- November 20, 2008Environmental Protection Agency awarded $441,146 to American Rivers for preservation of 52-square-mile San Gregorio Creek Watershed to provide water for agriculture and protect endangered species.
- November 20, 2008Kaiser Permanente awarded total of $256,500 to provide scholarships for 102 nursing students from 27 colleges in southern California.
- November 20, 2008California Endowment awarded $7.75M to support Children's Health Initiatives to offer low-cost health insurance to 80,000 children in California.
- November 20, 2008California Endowment awarded total of over $4M in two grants to Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, for health journalism and health communication.
- November 20, 2008Wal-Mart Foundation awarded $250,000 to Illinois Food Bank Association to purchase, distribute 500,000 pounds of food to state's hungry.
- November 20, 2008Lilly Endowment awarded $15M to Indiana University at Bloomington to establish Pervasive Technology Institute for study of information technology.