July 29, 2008
Farmers Insurance Group of Companies donated more than one ton of food to Olathe Community Food Pantry and Salvation Army of Olathe, Kan.
November 20, 2008
eQuilter online quilting resource awarded $600,000 to Engineers Without Borders-USA for water filtration and energy solutions in Rwanda.
November 20, 2008
American Society of Media Photographers awarded $85,000 to Picture Licensing Universal System Coalition for work to simplify image-rights management.
November 20, 2008
East 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, 2008
Estate 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, 2008
Wallace Foundation awarded $7.7M to support arts organizations in Seattle, and promote audience-building.
November 20, 2008
Rohm & Hass awarded $30,000 to Musicopia, Philadelphia, to launch Adventures Through Music program in Upper Dublin, Wissahickon school districts.
November 20, 2008
MetLife Foundation awarded $500,000 to Trust for Public Land to expand and renovate playgrounds in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta.
November 20, 2008
Regence Foundation awarded total of $350,000 to organizations in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Washington State to improve health-care access.
November 20, 2008
McCormick 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, 2008
Environmental 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, 2008
Kaiser Permanente awarded total of $256,500 to provide scholarships for 102 nursing students from 27 colleges in southern California.
November 20, 2008
California Endowment awarded $7.75M to support Children's Health Initiatives to offer low-cost health insurance to 80,000 children in California.
November 20, 2008
California 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, 2008
Wal-Mart Foundation awarded $250,000 to Illinois Food Bank Association to purchase, distribute 500,000 pounds of food to state's hungry.
November 20, 2008
Lilly Endowment awarded $15M to Indiana University at Bloomington to establish Pervasive Technology Institute for study of information technology.