March 24, 2008
United Health Foundation gave $49,970 to American College of Physicians to develop new Practice Improvement Workbook to help internists, staff with behavioral health support, patient education, diagnosis, treatment of acute illnesses.
December 2, 2008
KPMG awarded $1M to Major League Baseball Charities to support Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program.
December 2, 2008
Achieve consulting firm, Indianapolis, awarded consulting services and resources to Family & Children First, Louisville, Ky., Alzheimer's Association of Greater Illinois, Paramount Heritage Foundation, Anderson, Ind.
December 2, 2008
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded total of $8M to 31 winners of South Florida art contest; funds to be used to implement art projects.
December 2, 2008
Starbucks and International Youth Foundation selected 25 youth organizations to receive total of over $300,000 in grants.
December 2, 2008
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Maine, donated total of over $277,500 to 212 nonprofits through associate donations of $185,000 and 50 percent matching donation.
December 2, 2008
Kern Family Foundation awarded $225,000 to Kettering University, Michigan, to teach entrepreneurship studies across curriculum.
December 2, 2008
Ameriprize Financial awarded total of $1M in 57 grants to nonprofits working to meet basic needs, support community vitality, volunteer-driven causes.
December 2, 2008
Les Vadasz, founding management team member, Intel, and wife Judy Vadasz, pledged over $8M to create 15 engineering doctoral fellowships at McGill University, Montreal.
December 2, 2008
Liberty Mutual Group awarded $3M to Boston College Law School to create professorship in property, casualty-insurance law, provide $100,000 prize for best article on property, casualty-insurance law.
December 2, 2008
Sallie Mae employees donated over $26,000 to Sallie Mae Fund to provide Thanksgiving meals for families in northern Virginia.
December 2, 2008
ExxonMobil raised total of $2.49M for 222 local nonprofits through Employees' Favorite Charities Campaign.
December 2, 2008
Prem Rawat Foundation awarded $25,000 to ORBIS UK to support childhood blindness treatment program in India.
December 2, 2008
Goodwill/Easter Seals of Minnesota received $150,000 from Andersen Foundation, $15,000 from Xcel Foundation, $15,000 from Boston Scientific Foundation, $5,000 from Target Foundation.
December 2, 2008
MillerCoors pledged to match first $10,000 donated to Matthew Shepard Foundation through Campaign to Erase Hate
website.
December 2, 2008
Shirley and Morrison C. Boyd Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation awarded $22,900 to Main Line Chinese Culture Center, Wynnewood, PA.
