IBM grant supports child-care centers

Funds at Foundation for the Carolinas received over $1 billion from donors over past 10 years and gave $617 million to community causes.

NewBridge Bank allocated total of $13,374 for eight high schools in Davidson and Guilford counties from proceeds of bank's 2009 Christmas Classic Basketball Tournament to purchase athletic equipment.

NC STEM Community Collaborative says roughly $1 million in financial and human investments pledged this year to support initiative to advance science, technology, engineering and math education in North Carolina.

High Point University received $1 million from BB&T Foundation, Winston-Salem, for its entrepreneurship program.

Boys & Girls Clubs serving Wake County getting $44,000 from CARQUEST Auto Parts to support staffing and staff development at Brentwood Boys & Girls Club. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $458,316 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to fund AgrAbility Virginia Project, Easter Seals UCP, Raleigh.

John Rex Endowment, Raleigh, made eight grants totaling over $1 million to Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines; Haven House Services; Wake Teen Medical Services; Youth Empowered Solutions; Triangle Family Services; YWCA of the Greater Triangle; WakeUP Wake County; and Wake County Human Services. 

Hospitality House of Charlotte received automated external defibrillator from Mecklenburg Medical Alliance and Endowment.

GlaxoSmithKline and Triangle Community Foundation to award $40,000 each to up to 10 nonprofits that provide access to healthcare; deadline for submitting applications is 4 p.m., March 29.

High Point University donating pianos to Divine Restoration Ministries and High Point Housing Authority.

The University of North Carolina at Asheville named multimedia arts and sciences computer lab for Greg and Jennifer Mayer, of Charlotte Street Computers, who recently donated $25,000.

Meals On Wheels Association of America awarding grants to 147 local programs across U.S as part of previously announced $2.2 million donation from Walmart Foundation.

Biogen Idec Foundation Micro-Grants in Science Education fund at Triangle Community Foundation awarded 12 grants totaling $23,466 to local schools and nonprofits that support science education.

Critical Need Response Fund, Foundation for the Carolinas, Charlotte, announced grants totaling $836,000, bringing to nearly $2.6 million grants made to assist needy in community. 

Two anonymous donors pledged up to $110,000 to double all new donations to Triangle Land Conservancy's Our Water, Our Land fundraising campaign, which has raised $4.7 million toward goal of raising $4 million for Land Opportunity Fund and $1 million for Stewardship Fund by end of March.