June 3, 2008
Best Buy, Minneapolis, awarded each of eight U.S. school districts $100,000 Best Buy Teach Award for creative use of technology in classroom.
August 20, 2008
Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awarded $1M Affordable Housing Program grant to Olive Crest Homes and Services for Abused Children.
August 20, 2008
Mattel Children's Foundation awarded total of $2.1M to five children's charities and Mattel Children's Hospital at University of California Los Angeles.
August 19, 2008
ITT Watermark awarded $3M to provide safe water, sanitation, hygiene education to 300 schools in developing world.
August 19, 2008
Rewarding Achievement awarded total of nearly $1M to 1,100 New York City students for education pay-for-performance program.
August 19, 2008
Rose Community Foundation awarded total of over $2.3M to 103 Colorado-based charities, programs during second quarter 2008 grant cycle.
August 19, 2008
JAKKS Cares, Malibu, Calif., awarded $54,000 to American Red Cross for Red Cross China Relief Fund.
August 19, 2008
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $670,000 to Hawaii's Imiloa Astronomy Center to educate local children in astronomy, Hawaiian culture.
August 19, 2008
Qwest Foundation awarded $4,000 to High School Business Challenge of Montana for business education.
August 19, 2008
New York Life awarded $400,000 to New Visions for Public Schools to launch college-, career-readiness campaign in 43 New York City schools.
August 14, 2008
Gamma Mu Foundation awarded total of $129,550 for scholarships and support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community.
August 14, 2008
Getty Foundation awarded total of over $1M to nine Louisiana groups the restoration of New Orleans' visual-arts organizations.
August 14, 2008
Big Tattoo Wines of Springfield, Va., pledged $30,000 to Breast Cancer Network of Strength for support and counseling of breast-cancer victims.
August 14, 2008
4imprint, Oshkosh, Wis., awarded total of $32,500 in in-kind product grants to 65 nonprofits and registered charities in U.S., Canada.
August 14, 2008
Global Fund for Women awarded total of $2M to 138 grassroots women's groups in 68 countries for advancement of women's rights.
August 14, 2008
Jakob Marketing Partners awarded $10,000 to American Heart Association's Utah branch for Go Red for Women program.