Nichols School, college prep school, Buffalo, N.Y., received $1 million from Jeremy Jacobs and family, founders of Delaware North Companies.
- November 20, 2008Estate of Robert and Catherine McDevitt awarded $50M, mostly in IBM stock, to Le Moyne College, Syracuse, N.Y., to endow computer science, information, physics, religious philosophy.
- November 20, 2008Wallace Foundation awarded $7.7M to support arts organizations in Seattle, and promote audience-building.
- November 20, 2008Rohm & Hass awarded $30,000 to Musicopia, Philadelphia, to launch Adventures Through Music program in Upper Dublin, Wissahickon school districts.
- November 20, 2008MetLife Foundation awarded $500,000 to Trust for Public Land to expand and renovate playgrounds in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta.
- November 20, 2008Regence Foundation awarded total of $350,000 to organizations in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Washington State to improve health-care access.
- November 20, 2008McCormick Foundation awarded over $2.9M from funds collected through Welcome Back Veterans partnership with Major League Baseball for mental health, job placement for veterans.
- November 20, 2008Environmental Protection Agency awarded $441,146 to American Rivers for preservation of 52-square-mile San Gregorio Creek Watershed to provide water for agriculture and protect endangered species.
- November 20, 2008Kaiser Permanente awarded total of $256,500 to provide scholarships for 102 nursing students from 27 colleges in southern California.
- November 20, 2008California Endowment awarded $7.75M to support Children's Health Initiatives to offer low-cost health insurance to 80,000 children in California.
- November 20, 2008California Endowment awarded total of over $4M in two grants to Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, for health journalism and health communication.
- November 20, 2008Wal-Mart Foundation awarded $250,000 to Illinois Food Bank Association to purchase, distribute 500,000 pounds of food to state's hungry.
- November 20, 2008Lilly Endowment awarded $15M to Indiana University at Bloomington to establish Pervasive Technology Institute for study of information technology.
- November 20, 2008Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $6.7M to Rural Development Institute to expand micro-land ownership program for Indian women.
- November 18, 2008
Medical Assistance Programs International received $1M from anonymous donor to fund work in Latin America, Africa, Asia.
- November 18, 2008Helene Fuld Health Trust awarded nearly $1.3M to Medical College of Georgia to expand nursing education and reduce nurse shortage.