Regions Financial Corporation pledged $1M to Auburn University for School of Forestry, School of Business endowments.
- Professional Area: Fundraising/giving
- Field of Interest: Education
- February 8, 2010MasterCard Foundation launched $4.6 million scholarship program to provide educational support to 676 of Kenya's most promising yet disadvantaged youth.
- February 5, 2010San Francisco Museum of Modern Art received early contributions of $250 million in $480 million campaign to expand museum and double endowment.
- February 5, 2010Ohio University received $28 million from Violet Patton; will name college of education for her parents, David and Gladys Patton.
- January 29, 2010Walmart Foundation giving $4 million and partnering with United Way Worldwide, One Economy Corporation and National Disability Institute to bring free tax preparation and filing services to U.S. consumers.
- January 27, 2010Sutter Health contributed $10 million to Marin Community Foundation to establish the Sutter Health Access to Care Fund to increase availability of primary health-care services for Marin County residents with no or limited health insurance.
- January 19, 2010As of noon Jan. 15, Eastern Standard Time, corporate aid pledges for Haiti relief exceeded $43 million, with 121 companies contributing, and 22 them giving over $1 million each, says U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center.
- January 15, 2010Business Roundtable CEOs have committed over $17 million in cash and in-kind donations for relief efforts in Haiti.
- January 15, 2010CVS Caremark Charitable Trust awarded $6.3 million to nonprofits across U.S. in 2009.
- January 14, 2010As of 11 a.m., Eastern time, Jan. 14, corporate aid pledges for Haiti earthquake relief exceeded $16 million, including cash, in-kind contributions, employee-matching campaigns, and customer-engagement, according to U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center.
- January 14, 2010Elsevier Foundation committing total of $600,000 to 12 institutions around the world to support work of libraries and scholars in science, technology and medicine.
- January 13, 2010XanGo, Lehi, Utah, donated 1 millionth meal through XanGo Meal Pack program to feed severely malnourished children and adults around the world.
- January 13, 2010ACCION International received three-year, $5.8 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to introduce savings-account products to under-banked populations in Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador.
- January 13, 2010Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Investor Education Foundation and American Library Association announced $1,522,122 in grants to 19 recipients to provide library patrons with effective, unbiased financial education resources.
- January 13, 2010College Crusade of Rhode Island awarded TG public benefit gant of $105,982 to support college access and readiness programs for Rhode Island's low-income urban students.
- January 13, 2010Chicago Community Trust received and will match $202,000 from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to continue Community News Matters project for second year.
