Pro Team, The Vacuum Company matching donations through April 25, up to $100,000, benefiting American Lung Association.
- October 14, 2008Staples 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, 2008National 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, 2008Girton College, Cambridge, UK, received anonymous donation of 5M British pounds, or $8.78M, for teaching support fund.
- October 14, 2008Michael J. Fox Foundation donated total of $2M to five research teams developing therapies for treating Parkinson's disease symptoms.
- October 14, 2008United States Agency for International Development pledged $40M to Global Alliance for TB Drug Development for tuberculosis treatment research.
- October 14, 2008Exelon 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, 2008PNY 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, 2008Medical 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, 2008Walt Disney Company awarded $1.5M to TreePeople, Beverly Hills, Calif., to reforest areas destroyed by fire near Los Angeles.
- October 9, 2008James Irvine Foundation awarded total of $10.5M to 28 California organizations for arts education, technical education, news reporting.
- October 9, 2008Ms. 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, 2008Chrysler Foundation awarded $100,000 to National Infantry Foundation to aid construction of National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center, Columbus, Ga.
- October 9, 2008Verizon 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, 2008Prem Rawat Foundation awarded $40,000 to Feeding America to provide aid in hurricane-affected regions.
- October 9, 2008KPMG, New York, contributed $1.5M to Millennium Promise to support Millennium Village in Tanzania.