- December 2, 2008KPMG awarded $1M to Major League Baseball Charities to support Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program.
- December 2, 2008Achieve consulting firm, Indianapolis, awarded consulting services and resources to Family & Children First, Louisville, Ky., Alzheimer's Association of Greater Illinois, Paramount Heritage Foundation, Anderson, Ind.
- December 2, 2008John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded total of $8M to 31 winners of South Florida art contest; funds to be used to implement art projects.
- December 2, 2008Starbucks and International Youth Foundation selected 25 youth organizations to receive total of over $300,000 in grants.
- December 2, 2008Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Maine, donated total of over $277,500 to 212 nonprofits through associate donations of $185,000 and 50 percent matching donation.
- December 2, 2008Kern Family Foundation awarded $225,000 to Kettering University, Michigan, to teach entrepreneurship studies across curriculum.
- December 2, 2008Ameriprize Financial awarded total of $1M in 57 grants to nonprofits working to meet basic needs, support community vitality, volunteer-driven causes.
- December 2, 2008Les Vadasz, founding management team member, Intel, and wife Judy Vadasz, pledged over $8M to create 15 engineering doctoral fellowships at McGill University, Montreal.
- December 2, 2008Liberty Mutual Group awarded $3M to Boston College Law School to create professorship in property, casualty-insurance law, provide $100,000 prize for best article on property, casualty-insurance law.
- December 2, 2008Sallie Mae employees donated over $26,000 to Sallie Mae Fund to provide Thanksgiving meals for families in northern Virginia.
- December 2, 2008ExxonMobil raised total of $2.49M for 222 local nonprofits through Employees' Favorite Charities Campaign.
- December 2, 2008Prem Rawat Foundation awarded $25,000 to ORBIS UK to support childhood blindness treatment program in India.
- December 2, 2008Goodwill/Easter Seals of Minnesota received $150,000 from Andersen Foundation, $15,000 from Xcel Foundation, $15,000 from Boston Scientific Foundation, $5,000 from Target Foundation.
- December 2, 2008MillerCoors pledged to match first $10,000 donated to Matthew Shepard Foundation through Campaign to Erase Hate website.
- December 2, 2008Shirley and Morrison C. Boyd Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation awarded $22,900 to Main Line Chinese Culture Center, Wynnewood, PA.
December 3, 2008
UCLA gets $10M
Laurence D. Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, and wife endowed finance center at UCLA Anderson School of Management with $10M; center to be renamed Laurence D. and Lori W. Fink Center for Finance & Investments.
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