Kohl's department store gave more than $3.25M to youth-serving nonprofits in 2007 through Kohls' A-Team associate-volunteer program.
- October 9, 2008James Irvine Foundation awarded total of $10.5M to 28 California organizations for arts education, technical education, news reporting.
- October 9, 2008Ms. Foundation awarded grants to United Houma Nation Relief Fund, Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance for aid to hurricane-affected areas.
- October 9, 2008Chrysler Foundation awarded $100,000 to National Infantry Foundation to aid construction of National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center, Columbus, Ga.
- October 9, 2008Verizon Foundation awarded total of $2.2M to National Council of La Raza and National Urban League to develop afterschool programs with Verizon's Thinkfinity.org resources.
- October 9, 2008Prem Rawat Foundation awarded $40,000 to Feeding America to provide aid in hurricane-affected regions.
- October 9, 2008KPMG, New York, contributed $1.5M to Millennium Promise to support Millennium Village in Tanzania.
- October 9, 2008Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida awarded total of $835,068 to nine Florida nonprofits to reduce childhood obesity in the state.
- October 9, 2008Lilly Endowment, Indianapolis, awarded $2.8M to BioCrossroads for biomedical research, support.
- October 9, 2008Polk Bros. Foundation, Chicago, awarded total of $9.77M to 79 Chicago organizations during August meeting.
- October 9, 2008T. Boone Pickens Foundation awarded $3M to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America for mentoring services for children of deployed military personnel.
- October 9, 2008Several companies and groups donated money to San Antonio River Foundation for effort to create park along river bank: AT&T, Ewing Halsell Foundation, H-E-B Grocery Company, USAA Foundation, Valero Energy Corporation, Frost Bank, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Hayes, McCombs Family Foundation, Nokia, Toyota Manufacturing Texas, Wachovia Foundation.
- October 9, 2008Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation awarded grant to Charles Sumner School, Boston, to support Project Praise program to reduce playground violence and bullying.
- October 9, 2008Siebel Foundation awarded $25,000 scholarships to 47 outstanding graduate students for final year of graduate studies.
- October 9, 2008Allstate awarded $45,000 to The Forest Foundation, Auburn, Calif., to distribute booklet about forests, wildfires in California.
- October 9, 2008Air Liquide awarded total of $100,000 to American Red Cross, United Way for hurricane relief along the Gulf Coast.