American Express gives food bank $20,000

Hospice of Wake County generated $36,000 gift from fourth annual Cabin Fever Throwdown, held Feb. 28 at North Raleigh Hilton in partnership with David Hicks and family, and Raleigh Shag Club.

Applications due June 1 for community grant program of Charlotte Regional Realtor Association Housing Opportunity Foundation.

PPD Inc., Wilmington, gave $25,000 to the Pediatric MS Data Coordination and Analysis Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State Employees' Credit Union Foundation provided $125,000 grant to Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to continue production of Exploring North Carolina.

Letters of intent for grant support from Women to Women Endowment, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro should be sent by April 30 to Mindy Oakley, chief operating officer and vice president, philanthropic services, at moakley@cfgg.org.

Philip L. Van Every Foundation, Charlotte, made charitable gift to Central Piedmont Community College to create scholarship endowment; school named new culinary arts facility the Philip L. Van Every Culinary Arts Center.

Funds at Foundation for the Carolinas received over $1 billion from donors over past 10 years and gave $617 million to community causes.

NewBridge Bank allocated total of $13,374 for eight high schools in Davidson and Guilford counties from proceeds of bank's 2009 Christmas Classic Basketball Tournament to purchase athletic equipment.

NC STEM Community Collaborative says roughly $1 million in financial and human investments pledged this year to support initiative to advance science, technology, engineering and math education in North Carolina.

High Point University received $1 million from BB&T Foundation, Winston-Salem, for its entrepreneurship program.

Boys & Girls Clubs serving Wake County getting $44,000 from CARQUEST Auto Parts to support staffing and staff development at Brentwood Boys & Girls Club. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $458,316 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to fund AgrAbility Virginia Project, Easter Seals UCP, Raleigh.

John Rex Endowment, Raleigh, made eight grants totaling over $1 million to Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines; Haven House Services; Wake Teen Medical Services; Youth Empowered Solutions; Triangle Family Services; YWCA of the Greater Triangle; WakeUP Wake County; and Wake County Human Services. 

Hospitality House of Charlotte received automated external defibrillator from Mecklenburg Medical Alliance and Endowment.

GlaxoSmithKline and Triangle Community Foundation to award $40,000 each to up to 10 nonprofits that provide access to healthcare; deadline for submitting applications is 4 p.m., March 29.