Air Liquide, Paris, awarded $1.5M to Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, Boston, for inhalation therapy development.
- December 4, 2008Associates of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in Missouri pledged total of nearly $1M for support of 900 nonprofits through Associate Giving Campaign; Blue Cross will match half the amount.
- December 4, 2008AT&T awarded $25,000 to Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund to provide financial aid for higher education to Asian and Pacific Islander students.
- December 4, 2008Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation awarded total of $99M in grants during 2008.
- December 4, 2008H.N. and Francis C. Berger Foundation donated 20 acres to Riverside County, Calif., for creation of new sheriff station.
- December 4, 2008Aetna awarded $45,000 to National Association of College and University Business Officers for Thought Leaders program on demographic change in higher-education workforce.
- December 4, 2008Staples and Chicago Bears partnered to award $25,000 to Renwick Community Park, Plainfield, Ill., for park makeover.
- December 2, 2008KPMG awarded $1M to Major League Baseball Charities to support Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program.
- December 2, 2008Achieve 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, 2008John 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, 2008Starbucks and International Youth Foundation selected 25 youth organizations to receive total of over $300,000 in grants.
- December 2, 2008Anthem 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, 2008Kern Family Foundation awarded $225,000 to Kettering University, Michigan, to teach entrepreneurship studies across curriculum.
- December 2, 2008Ameriprize Financial awarded total of $1M in 57 grants to nonprofits working to meet basic needs, support community vitality, volunteer-driven causes.
- December 2, 2008Les 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, 2008Liberty 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.