NBC Universal awards $25,000

Sarah Miller-McCune, founder and chairman, SAGE Publications, donated $1.5M to Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford to create endowed fellowship.

Aetna and Aetna Foundation established endowment fund at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to support Connecticut Veterans Day Parade with initial contribution of $75,000.

Rockefeller Foundation opened 2009 New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, offering grants between $50,000 and $250,000 to support New York's cultural and creative sectors; information online.

S. Mark Taper Foundation awarded $100,000 to House Ear Institute to expand Sound Partners, teen hearing-conservation initiative.

New Belgium Brewing Company, Fort Collins, Colo., funded implementation of Social Bike Business program in Los Angeles.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded total of $240,000 to five organizations to support international exchange programs.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $500,000 to Global Action for Children to partner with African civil society, encourage governments to devote 15 percent of budgets to health; $6M to YouthBuild USA to support seven YouthBuild programs across the country helping low-income students complete education, build housing; $1M to OxFam America to confront cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe by providing safe water, sanitation, community awareness education.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation awarded total of $485,000 to 22 organizations, health centers, hospital programs to improve health-coverage access.

Michael J. Fox Foundation awarded $465,000 to Omeros Corporation for collaboration with Parkinson's Institute to evaluate new treatment target.

Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation awarded $1M to UCLA School of Dentistry to create Dr. No-Hee Park Endowed Chair in Dentistry.

Henry 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.

Cintas Corporation, Cincinnati, to donate 100 automatic external defibrillators to public school-affiliated groups through end of February.

Brookwood Systems, Fremont, Calif., donated interactive personnel directory and map kiosk to Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Mountain View Center.

Next Generation Underwriters, Hendersonville, Tenn., sponsored wishes of four local children through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Kaiser Permanente awarded $750,000 to Institute for Healthcare Improvement for IHI Open School for Health Professions, an online health-care education program.