Rohm and Hass awards over $250,000

Holy Name Hospital's Annual Founders Ball, presented by Holy Name Health Care Foundation, raised nearly $600,000 for Villa Marie Claire, hospital's new hospice facility in Saddle River, N.J. 

Humana Foundation awarded total of $300,000 in economic response grants to eight nonprofits throughout U.S.

Time Warner Cable launched five-year, $100 million program to improve education and interest in science, technology, engineering and math.

Dell awarded $2 million in cash and in-kind grants of products to China Education Development Foundation and China Youth Development Foundation.

Dubai Duty Free Foundation giving $1.5 million to Smile Train, charity dedicated to repairing cleft lip and cleft palate deformities in children.

Phoenix Partners Group donated $150,000 to Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. 

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative received $15 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to undertake clinical development of new medicine to treat human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, fatal disease that threatens 60 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Northwest Area Foundation awarded 14 grants totaling $2.04 million to nationally-known and ethnically-diverse organizations offering approaches to reduce poverty by building prosperity across its eight-state region.

Eleven Pennsylvania nonprofits received total of $202,300 from Verizon Foundation to raise awareness of Internet safety and offer educational outreach services to students, parents and educators. 

Salesforce.com Foundation giving $1 million to UCSF Medical Center to help build new children's hospital at Mission Bay in San Francisco, matched by $1 million gift from Marc Beniff, Salesforce.com chairman and CEO, and his family.

New York Life Foundation awarded $200,000 grant to YMCA of Greater New York for new after-school curriculum to engage students through architecture, engineering and design to explore math, science, arts and humanities.

Bank of America awarded $200,000 Neighborhood Excellence Award over two years to The Wooden Floor, Santa Ana, previously known as Saint Joseph Ballet.

Sara Lee Corp. in fiscal 2009 donated equivalent of 1.8 million meals to Feeding America.

Tucson Electric Power to give $100,000 in grants to 14 nonprofits that address health and well-being of at-risk children, teens, families and seniors.

Michael Bloomberg awarded total of $125 million to EMBARQ, World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, World Bank Global Road Safety Facility, Global Road Safety Partnership and Association for Safe International Road Travel for programs in low- and middle-income countries to prevent death and disability from road traffic crashes.