June 11, 2008
NBT Bank donated $50,000 to Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival for endowment.
October 14, 2008
Staples Foundation for Learning awarded total of $317,000 in 26 grants to nonprofits to provide education, job skills to disadvantaged or at-risk youth.
October 14, 2008
National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, Calif., donated total of $1.2M for K-12 math and science programs in Silicon Valley, Arlington, Texas, Southern Maine.
October 14, 2008
Girton College, Cambridge, UK, received anonymous donation of 5M British pounds, or $8.78M, for teaching support fund.
October 14, 2008
Michael J. Fox Foundation donated total of $2M to five research teams developing therapies for treating Parkinson's disease symptoms.
October 14, 2008
United States Agency for International Development pledged $40M to Global Alliance for TB Drug Development for tuberculosis treatment research.
October 14, 2008
Exelon Corp. donated $1.5M to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History Environment, Culture and Conservation division to protect forests in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador.
October 14, 2008
PNY Technologies, Parsippany, N.Y., donated $100,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn., for research in pediatric cancer, other children's diseases.
October 14, 2008
Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee awarded $36,000 each to schools to develop palliative-care education programs: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York; School of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Camden, Ohio; University Hospital of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ga.; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Texas Tech University Health Sciences School of Medicine, Lubbock.
October 14, 2008
Walt Disney Company awarded $1.5M to TreePeople, Beverly Hills, Calif., to reforest areas destroyed by fire near Los Angeles.
October 9, 2008
James Irvine Foundation awarded total of $10.5M to 28 California organizations for arts education, technical education, news reporting.
October 9, 2008
Ms. Foundation awarded grants to United Houma Nation Relief Fund, Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance for aid to hurricane-affected areas.
October 9, 2008
Chrysler Foundation awarded $100,000 to National Infantry Foundation to aid construction of National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center, Columbus, Ga.
October 9, 2008
Verizon Foundation awarded total of $2.2M to National Council of La Raza and National Urban League to develop afterschool programs with Verizon's Thinkfinity.org resources.
October 9, 2008
Prem Rawat Foundation awarded $40,000 to Feeding America to provide aid in hurricane-affected regions.
October 9, 2008
KPMG, New York, contributed $1.5M to Millennium Promise to support Millennium Village in Tanzania.
