Giving News: In Brief

Wallgreens awarded $10,000 each to 111 colleges of pharmacy to support diversity.

Romesh Wadhwani gave $5M to alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Rohm and Hass Community Partnership Initiative awarded $5,000 to Ambler, Pa., Area YMCA to enhance Health Intervention System for youth.

Athena and Nicholas Karabots Foundation awarded $15M to Philadelphia Children's Hospital to open pediatric care center, Norriston, Pa.

Integrated Wealth Management awarded $150,000 to Desert AIDS Project in commemoration of the project's 25th anniversary.

San Diego Foundation granted record total of over $62M to 500 donors, volunteers, and nonprofits in 2007.

Qwest Foundation awarded $49,000 to Museum of Spanish Colonial Art for education outreach in New Mexico.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded $655,200 to Red Tomato, Mass., for improvement of farms and local produce.

Hasbro Games pledges to match summer event sales with donations of toys to Marine Toys for Tots Foundation.

DePaul University received $40,000 from Motorola Foundation for seventh-grade science-enrichment program; $63,000 from Illinois State Board of Education for web-enhanced education and mentoring; and two grants totaling $270,000 from the National Security Agency for Arabic and Chinese language education.

Northwestern Mutual Foundation awarded total of $265,000 to 25 nonprofits through Community Service Award program.

D'Addario Music Foundation awarded total of $155,000 in money and $33,000 in product support to 56 music-education organizations.

Amgen Foundation awarded $20,000 to The College Crusade of Rhode Island to support college-readiness programs.

Qwest Foundation awarded $15,000 to Utah Symphony - Utah Opera for educational outreach programs.

Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation awarded community grant to Westinghouse High School of Brooklyn, N.Y.

MetLife Foundation awarded $250,000 to New England Foundation for the Arts to fund National Dance Project.

Prem Rawat Foundation awarded $100,000 to Community Water and Ecological Sanitation Care to provide potable water to Ghanaian communities.

American Express awarded $300,000 to ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership for new leadership academy.

Colorado Health Foundation awarded total of $10M to 60 organizations to promote health and well being in Colorado.

City of Hope and California Institute of Technology established medical research fund with $1M gift from anonymous donor.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded $325,000 to Chicago organizations for development of international projects.

CA Inc. contributed $250,000 to National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to sponsor youth business camps.

Peter G. Peterson Foundation to fund "Big Game" fiscal problem awareness campaign, headed by National Academy of Public Administration, PETLab, for college students

David H. Koch donated $100 million to New York City Ballet, Opera, renaming Lincoln Center the David H. Koch Theater.

HP donated 5,000 HP iPAQ Travel Companions with GPS technology to Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing.

Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Mich., awarded $183,000 to Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Mich., to establish peer-reviewed philanthropy journal.

California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, awarded $286,000 to 14 nonprofits to enhance lives of El Monte residents.

Steppingstone Academy, Boston, received $1M gift from Managing Directors of TA Associates in honor of retiring managing director P. Andrews McLane.

Aetna, Atlanta, awarded $40,000 to Ryan Cameron Foundation for diabetes-screening day.

Ivy Foundation, Palo Alto, Calif., awarded $3M to Translational Genomics Research Institute for two-stage tumor project.

Deutsche Bank, New York, announced three grants in Peru for arts, needy totaling $100,000.

Nearly 100 Indiana nonprofits received more than $2.5M in software donations from Npower Indiana, Microsoft Corp. in past six years.

United States Olympic Committee, U.S. Paralympics, Colorado Springs, Colo., to donate total of $500,000 to 24 organizations through Olympic Opportunity Fund.

Principal Financial Group Foundation pledged $1M to Embrace Iowa: 2008 Iowa Disaster Fund, Des Moines.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., received $5M from Starr Foundation for visual arts research, academic program.

Prem Rawat Foundation, Los Angeles, awarded $40,000 to Second Harvest National Food Bank Network to aid flood victims in Midwest.

Good2gether awarded $1,000 grants to Merrimack River Watershed Council, Supporting Parents and Resilient Kids Center in Do Good New England contest.

Keeley Family Foundation, Chicago, donated $2M to DePaul University, Chicago, for new chair in investment management.

Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Foundation gave Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif., $75M gift to name new Kravis Center for administrative offices, classrooms.

CA, Inc., Islandia, N.Y., gave $250,000 for National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship BizCamp program.

Cisco donated $45M to Sichuan Province, China for earthquake relief.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, Oakland, Calif., launched Sports for Health program, providing grants up to $1,500 for gym equipment in San Francisco middle schools.

Dell Foundation awarded $50,000 each "Healthy Community" grants to 27 organizations to Tex., Tenn., Okla., N.C.

Qwest Foundation awarded $8,155 to Youth Emergency Services, Gillette, Wyo., to fund Impact Mentoring program.

New York Life donated $100,000 for flood relief in Midwest.

St. David's Community Health Foundation awarded $2.3M in grants to nonprofits addressing mental-health needs in Central Texas.

Regions Financial Corporation pledged $1M to Auburn University for School of Forestry, School of Business endowments.

ACE Group of Companies, Philadelphia, awarded three-year $720,000 grant to Freedom from Hunger Inc.

GE Foundation awarded $1.2M to International Medical Corps for efforts to assist with crisis in Darfur.

Dorel Juvenile Group, Columbus, Ind., and Cosco Home and Office Products to make $40,000 donation to Midwest flood-relief efforts.

Helen Brach Foundation gave $100,000 to De Paul University's Campaign for Excellence in Science to support Andrew J. McGowan Science Building.

Blackbaud employees donated over 1M airline miles to Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles awarded $78M in grants to 1,850 secular, religious causes in 2007.

Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism announced $5M endowment from Tow Foundation for new media center.

AAA Minnesota/Iowa donated $50,000, clean up supplies to American Red Cross Iowa flood relief efforts.

Florian Villa owners received $6,000 from Weber Foundation of Helping Hands on behalf of upcoming Soldiers Undertaking Disabled Scuba SUDS trip to Florian Villa, St. John Virgin Islands.

International Trachoma Initiative received three year $448,809 grant from Izumi Foundation for 20,000 sight-saving surgeries in Burkina Faso, Niger.

Teagle Foundation, New York, announced 30 grants totaling over $3.5M to fund projects involving more than 45 colleges, universities, other higher education institutes.

Sallie Mae announced 36 winners of Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards; each high school senior to receive grants ranging from $1,000- $8,000.

Hudson's Bay Company, Toronto, donated $700,000 to Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation from Think Pink Campaign funds.

Chrysler Foundation donated $100,000 to Service the City Resource Group for flood-relief and clean-up supplies in Midwest.

Twiga Foundation, Boise, Idaho, received $400,000 grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund States as Employers-of-Choice project.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh approved $10.95M for its Affordable Housing Program to finance 26 projects.

Kohl's donated $100,000 for flood relief efforts in Midwest.

James Irvine Foundation awarded 34 grants totaling $22M to support several outreach programs benefiting California residents.

Qwest Foundation awarded total of $15,000 to Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust and Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center Foundation.

Airgas Inc., Radnor, Pa., industrial, medical, specialty gas provider, pledged $300,000 to Operation Homefront for support of wounded soldiers, families.

University of Wyoming College of Business received $3M from Daniels Fund for Daniels Chair of Business Ethics endowment.

Dell Foundation awarded more than $150,000 to charities worldwide through annual volunteer-recognition program.

Principal Financial Group Foundation to match employee contributions up to $25,000 for Iowa tornado relief.

National Public Lands Day seeking applicants for "National Public Lands Day Toyota Hybrid Tour" grants; community organizers planning a clean up day may apply online.

Jeremy M. Jacobs, CEO, Delaware North donated $10M to University at Buffalo to establish Jacobs Institute, clinic for heart, vascular disease research.

GMAC, Detroit, to provide funding and 500 volunteers to help build 12 Habitat homes in U.S., three in Mexico, Canada.

Prem Rawat Foundaton, Los Angeles, donated $10,000 to Koulawa, NGO in Niger, to provide food to 250 disabled women, children.

Higher Achievement, Washington D.C. academic motivation program, received three-year $3M grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to expand program serving needy middle-school students.

North Dakota Association of Nonprofit Organizations received $10,000 from Qwest Foundation to support leadership conference.

Principal Financial Group Foundation to match employee contributions up to $25,000 for Iowa tornado-relief efforts.

OrthoSynetics donated body armor, tactical equipment to New Orleans Police Department.

Pacers Foundation gave $500,000 to Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce for Common Goal high school graduation-rate initiative.

Southern Arts Federation, Atlanta, awarded total of $371,981 in grants to 125 projects presented by nonprofits.

Rohm and Haas Company and First Philadelphia Charter School celebrated opening of school's Rohm and Haas Intergenerational Greenhouse June 4; greenhouse made possible with $30,000 grant from Rohm and Haas.

Herb Alpert Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif., awarded $1.2M to InnerSpark for scholarships for college-bound students in the arts.

Hella KGaA Hueck Co. donated $312,000 for earthquake-relief efforts in China.

Jim Beam, Orlando-based bourbon maker, gave $175,000 to Operation Homefront.

Kaplan Educational Foundation to award 10 more New York community college students with scholarships.

Hartford Financial Services gave total of $242,000 in scholarships to 13 high school seniors through STAG Leadership Scholarship, Alliance for Academic Achievement.

Verizon Wireless, HopeLine gave $1,500 to Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh by collecting used cell phones.

Best Buy awarded 1,551 scholarships totaling more than $2.75M in 2008.

Sybase, enterprise software and services company, donating all text-messaging fees earned in China through Sybase 365 hub to aid with earthquake-relief efforts.

Laird Technologies, St. Louis, donated $100,000 to earthquake-relief efforts in China.

Blue Shield of California, San Francisco, announced total of $12.3M in grants to several nonprofits in California for various causes.

Shaw Group, Baton Rouge, La., donated $144,000 to earthquake-relief efforts in China.

Polaris T.R.A.I.L.S. awarded $700,000 in grants to local, state, national all-terrain vehicles clubs; awarded total of $108,400 in new funds to 11 groups.

New York Life Insurance Company donated $100,000 to earthquake-relief efforts in China.

Yum! Brands Inc. donated $2.3M for earthquake relief efforts in China.

Boca Java exceeded goal of serving five million cups of coffee to troops deployed overseas in "Operation Million Cup" initiative.

Earthwatch Institute, Maynard, Mass., received second $1,000 grant from good2gether; Institute is second of four New England winners.

Six students to receive total of $150,000 over four years from Micron Technology Foundation through Scholars program Micron Science and Technology Scholars program.

Safeway Inc. to donate total of $9 million to Easter Seals, Special Olympics to fund broad range of activities.

Reader's Digest Foundation donate $100,000 to WaterPartners International as part of Make it Matter initiative.

Prudential Financial to give $4M to Newark Museum, $1M to Campaign for New Jersey Performing Arts Center in honor of retiring CEO, Art Ryan.

Lehigh University received $34.2M from alum Donald B. Stabler for financial aid to incoming students.

Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation pleged $500,000 to American Red Cross for earthquake relief efforts in China.

H.J. Heinz Company to donate $350,000 to China for earthquake relief efforts in China.

Pfizer, New York, gave total of $9.97M to 242 U.S. medical, scientific, patient organizations for first quarter 2008.

Houston Food Bank named winner of Humana Inc.'s 2008 Houston Benefits, received $100,000 prize; finalists Children's Assessment Center, Open Door Mission received $10,000 each.

Quiznos, Denver, Colo., partnering with America's Road Home to donate sandwiches to 250 homeless families in Denver area.

Majestic Realty Foundation, City of Industry, Calif., placed more than 315 grants nationwide during fifth year of operation.

Correctional Education Assoc., Maryland, received $20,000 from Prem Rawat Foundation, Los Angeles, for telecasts of ‘Words of Peace' program on Transforming Lives Network.

Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute received $500,000 from David Bohnett Foundation to fund David Bohnett Gay & Lesbian Leadership Fellows; named first 10 fellows.

Deutsche Bank establishing endowment to fund American Junior Golf Association's ACE grant, given to junior golfers to ensure competitive golf opportunities regardless of financial resources.

Football Foundation, UK, received total of 135M pounds, or about $266M, from Premier League, Football Association, government to boost grassroots sport.

Education Commission of the States received $100,000 from GE Foundation to expand Progress of Education Reform publication.

Microfinance Information eXchange received two-year $740,000 grant from MasterCard Foundation to launch MIX Market 2.0, web-based platform for sharing publicly-available information on microfinance institutions.

BMO Financial Group, BMO Employee Charitable Foundation, Montreal, contributing $30,000 to Canadian Red Cross for relief efforts for flood victims in New Brunswick; BMO also launched Flood Relief Program for customers.

Richard King Mellon Foundation, Pittsburgh, awarded $7 million to Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pa., to help with construction of Sis and Herman Dupre Science Complex to house Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing.

Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp., Boston, awarded grant to Community Preparatory School, Providence, R.I., to purchase fifth-grade textbooks on science, health, fitness.

Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, received re-creation of office of Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter, from Alan and Susan Casden.

University of Texas at Dallas received $200,000 from Sid W. Richardson Foundation for UTeach Dallas, effort to recruit more math, science teachers.

Arizona State University's College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation received $700,000 grant from UnitedHealthcare to expand services for underserved.

Atlantic Philanthropies gave SingleStop USA $5.5M to connect up to one million low-income households with public benefits, services; grant will expand New York City pilot program to four states: California, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico.

America's Promise Alliance got $1M from ING Foundation to support Dropout Prevention Campaign to lower high-school dropout rates in all 50 states, 50 select communities over next two years.

Bush Foundation distributed total of $11,357,368 to 113 nonprofits in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota in areas of arts, humanities, education, ecological health, health and human services, other.

Grameen Foundation helped Amhara Credit and Savings Institution get $5.3M loan from Commercial Bank of Ethiopia with $2.5M guarantee from Grameen Foundation's Growth Guarantee Program.

Energy Outreach Colorado, Denver, distributed $1.25M in energy-assistance funds to help Coloradans pay off winter heating bills.

March of Dimes received $1.5M from Farmers Insurance Companies at ‘March for Babies' event, Los Angeles.

Liberty Humane Society, Jersey City, N.J., received $10,000 in emergency funding from American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in wake of removal of 42 animals from Hudson County SPCA.

Wal-Mart donated $1.5 million to America's Second Harvest to provide 16 million meals, add thousands of children to BackPack program, which provides weekend food for underprivileged students.

Communities Foundation of Texas received two bequests totaling $24M from estate of Mabel Peters Caruth.

Safeco Insurance Foundation gave $500,000 to Seattle's Asian Counseling and Referral Service as part of grant series to improve Puget Sound communities.

Safeco Insurance Foundation gave $500,000 to Seattle's Asian Counseling and Referral Service.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, received $175,000 from Dart Foundation to launch Academy for Critical Incident Analysis.

John C. and Debbie Tolleson donated $1M for Edwin L. Cox BBA Scholars Program, Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business.

Summa Health System's Department of Psychiatry received $300,000 from Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation for psychiatric resources.

United Health Foundation awarded $64,000 educational grant to American Academy of Family Physicians to help primary-care physician practices meet quality, clinical care consistent with Primary Care Medical Homes' standards.

Half Price Books, through Becomegreen.org environmental education initiative, gave first $25,000 award to Natural Resources Defense Council recognition of group's promotion of conservation, preservation of environment.

ExxonMobil and employees donated over $36M to 930 colleges across U.S. through ExxonMobil Foundation's matching-gift program.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awarded total of $81.8M in grants to 124 organizations this spring for a variety of causes including education, environment, performing arts.

HMSHost Corp. launched summer promotion with Coca-Cola to support military personnel, families through U.S. Service Organizations, Inc.

Nichols School, college prep school, Buffalo, N.Y., received $1 million from Jeremy Jacobs and family, founders of Delaware North Companies.

DePaul University received two grants: professor in college of Computing and Digital Media received $306,500 grant from National Science Foundation; College of Law Asylum & Immigration Clinic's Legal Resource Project received $113,000 from Polk Bros. Foundation.

DePaul University College of Law received $50,000 from Helen Del Missier Hachem in memory of Helen Cirese, alum and jurist.

Entrepreneurial Management Center at San Diego State University's College of Business Administration received $100,000 gift from Foundation for Enterprise Development as Beyster Fellowship supporting research on organizational inclusiveness and equity distribution practices.

Watkins Inc., Winona, Minn., donated 9,000 bottles of multi-vitamins, worth $170,000, for distribution to seniors, needy community members in Twin Cities by Metro Meals on Wheels, Hope for the City, Minnesota Senior Foundation.

Xerox awarded $2M to Rochester Institute of Technology to serve as founding partner of Golisano Institute for Sustainability, providing education, technology-development systems related to sustainable design, lifecycle engineering, remanufacturing, pollution prevention.

American Welding Society Foundation received $300,000 from Lincoln Electric Co. to help relieve nationwide shortage of welders.

Nickerson Community Center, Providence, received community grant from Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation for purchase of electronics.

NRG Energy, Princeton, N.J., donated $160,000 to build school for Responsibility, nonprofit educating children who sort trash in Tijuana.

Washington Mutual raised $1M for National Arbor Day Foundation to plant 1 million trees through $1 pledges for bank statements switched from paper to online.

Kohl's department store gave more than $3.25M to youth-serving nonprofits in 2007 through Kohls' A-Team associate-volunteer program.

TZONE Foundation, founded by model Tyra Banks, awarded $10,000 grant to Girls in the Game, nonprofit enhancing well-being, health of at-risk girls.

New York Life Foundation awarded $776,400 to Developmental Studies Center to expand Afterschool KidzLit, Afterschool Kidz Math programs.

Hewlett Foundation awarded $84.9M for causes including education, population, global development, environment, performing arts, philanthropy.

Prem Rewat Foundation donated $26,000 to Montanas de Esperanza, Ecuador, to provide relief to flood victims in Santa Lucia village; will supply 32 tons of food to feed 1,500 families for a month.

Los Angeles Free Clinic renamed Saban Free Clinic in recognition of $10M donation from Cheryl and Haim Saban.

National Forest Foundation awarded total of $1.5M to nonprofit recipients of 2008 Wilderness Stewardship Challenge program.

Southern Education Foundation fulfilled match requirements to create $6M endowment for Center to Serve Historically Black Colleges and Universities, in part through $1.8M grant from Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

Thunderbird School of Global Management received several multimillion-dollar pledges, including $10M from Scott Walker, alum and trustee, for $65M Campaign Thunderbird.

Competitive Inner City received $200,000 grant from Staples Inc. for Inner City 100, annual ranking of growing inner-city businesses nationwide.

Eaton Corp. donated $500,000 to Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' Arc Flash Collaborative Research Project to expand knowledge of electric-arc flash phenomena.

CIGNA awarded $75,000 grant to Childhood Leukemia Foundation to offer Hope Binders to patients' parent free of charge; binders provide information, resources on care.

Ricky Burgess, Pittsburgh councilman, donating all $146,000 district discretionary funds to "Hope Fund" at POISE Foundation, which works improve quality of life for black community in Pittsburgh area.

Diana and Stephen Goldberg's donations to Children's National Medical Center surpassed $50M through matching challenges.

Diana and Roy Vagelos donated $15M to Barnard College's new multi-use Nexus campus center; gift is largest college's history.

Northwestern Mutual, Denver, contributed $400,000 and 150 volunteers to Junior Achievement's "JA in a Day" series to celebrate Mutual's 150^th anniversary.

Michael J. Fox Foundation gave $5.6M for a Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate potential of inosine in treating Parkinson's disease.

City of Hope received $1M gift from Norman and Melinda Payson to support institution's graduate school of biological sciences; half the grant to establish Dr. Norman and Melinda Payson Graduate Studies Center, with remainder to endow student fellowship.

ExxonMobil awarded more than $225,000 in scholarships to over 220 students at 2008 ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair.

Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation received $11.5M in new gifts towards construction of urban park near downtown Dallas.

Robert Bowne Foundation awarded more than $2.1M over five years to Wellesley Centers for Women's National Institute on Out-of-School Time for National Afterschool Matters Initiative promoting research, professional development.

Winnick Family Foundation gave $25,000 to Los Angeles Public Library to fund Read to Me L.A. early-literacy initiative.

Reader's Digest Foundation gave $100,000 to National Hospice Foundation as part of Reader's Digest Make it Matter initiative.

Freddie Mac gave $800,000 to National Alliance to End Homelessness to help nonprofits in D.C. area implement homelessness plans.

State Farm gave three-year $750,000 grant to National Center for Learning and Citizenship of Education Commission of the States to provide assistance to policymakers, school leaders.

City College of New York received $10M gift from Michael "Mickey" Ross, alumnus and writer/producer, to create Jewish studies center.

New York Life Foundation awarded $25,000 to each of six group in recognition of mentoring programs with positive role models: Urban Dove, Girls for Gender Equity, Asian Professional Extension, Youth at Risk, New York Urban League, CLUSTER Community Services.

UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation offering grants to cover healthcare treatment, services, equipment not covered by insurance.

Humana seeking applications from Chicago-area nonprofits for $100,000 grant from Chicago Benefits charitable-awards program; applications due May 20^th.

Sidney Kimmel Foundation awarded grants to 16 scientists, bringing to more than $350M total donations for cancer research since 1997.

Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving, Texas, donated $10M for anti-malaria efforts through "Idol Gives Back" episode of American Idol.

Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation awarded grants to John Winthrop Elementary School, Bird Street Community Center, both of Boston.

Pro Team, The Vacuum Company matching donations through April 25, up to $100,000, benefiting American Lung Association.

Crittenton Women's Union, Boston-based group helping low-income women, received $50,000 pledge from Suze Orman, motivational speaker, TV host, author; pledge to be paid over five years.

Vice President and Mrs. Cheney donated $166,547 to charity in 2007 off $602,651 in taxable income, bringing total donations during vice presidency to $7,966,566.

Two teachers in Park Elementary School, Casper, Wyo. received $5,00