DePaul receives $1.2M

W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded $42 million for endowment at Cal Poly Pomona to increase access to educational opportunities, largest cash gift ever to California State University system.

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UPS and its employees and retirees this summer will have made $1 billion in total contributions to United Way since company began annual workplace campaigns in 1982.

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Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, Minn., awarded grants totaling $1.9 million to seven state universities to expand work of Horizons, leadership-development program for rural towns.

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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation awarded grants totaling over $3.2 million to Flint Cultural Center, Flint, Mich.

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Healthcare Georgia Foundation awarded grants totaling $738,000 to nine organizations and programs.

Open Society Foundations pledged total of $5.5 million to Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, New York City Center for Economic Opportunity and New Profit Inc. to strengthen communities and spur economic growth; investment to be matched by federal Social Innovation Fund and private dollars.

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Plaid Enterprises donated $2 million in arts and crafts supplies to Kansas City-based Children International.

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Fidelity Investments and HandsOn Network partnering to help revitalize learning environments in 11 middle schools across U.S.; effort will involve more than 3,000 Fidelity employees volunteering over 30,000 hours, mainly on weekends.

Minneapolis Foundation awarded 58 community grants totaling $2.8 million to transform education, promote economic vitality and build social capital.

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Micron Foundation giving $1.2 million over four years to University of Idaho to help identify what creates barriers to learning in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math.

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New York Life Foundation giving $450,000 over three years to The Children's Aid Society to support Next Generation Center help at-risk youth and those who have aged out of foster care.

Project On Government Oversight received investment commitment of up to $1 million over three years from Omidyar Network to strengthen its government watchdog efforts and expand its communication and outreach.

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NYU Langone Medical Center received over $80 million in philanthropic gifts to support research, education and patient care between December 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, from donors including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, and former patients.

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To help combat high school dropout rate among at-risk students, AT&T giving $1.5 million to Communities In Schools to strengthen and advance its core program.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation established five-year, $10 million grant to fund emergency services for Holocaust survivors residing in North America through Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (The Claims Conference).

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Komen for the Cure announced $59 million in 2010 breast-cancer research grants to 65 institutions; Komen has invested nearly $500 million in research funding globally over past 30 years.

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St. Baldrick's Foundation awarded $12.8 million to fund pediatric oncology researchers in 47 states.

 

Siemens PLM Software making in-kind software grant with commercial value of $27.5 million to College of Engineering, New Mexico State University, university's second-largest in-kind corporate contribution ever.

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AAUW awarding $3.2 million in 2010-11 to support 215 scholars, research projects, and programs promoting education and equity for women and girls; since awarding first fellowship in 1888, AAUW has provided over $80 million to 11,000 fellows and grantees worldwide.

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Clark Foundation allocated $2 million from its endowment to Nonprofit Finance Fund to establish working-capital loan fund for its grantee partners.

USA Football and all 32 NFL teams awarded football-equipment grants of $1,000 each to roughly 800 youth and high school football programs throughout U.S., bringing total equipment grants awarded since 2006 to over $3 million.

Morgan and Helen Chu giving $2.5 million to establish Morgan and Helen Chu Dean's Chair for the Irell Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope. 

TD Charitable Foundation, charitable giving arm of TD Bank, will award $1.7 million in grants to support affordable housing initiatives from Maine to Florida.

DePaul University received commitment of over $1 million from alumnus Gerald Beeson and his wife Jennifer Beeson to endow scholarship; $1 million from Brian Campbell, former CEO, president and chairman of Kaydon Corporation, for scholarship for business undergrads; and $65,000 from NASA to support Chicago Public School science education.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors received $3.7 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch campaign to educate emerging donors to make thoughtful giving plans.

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research giving nearly $1.1 million for projects aimed at advancing the development of leading biomarker candidates for Parkinson's disease.

Archer Daniels Midland Company donating $300,000 to American Red Cross.

Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, received $5 million commitment from CA Technologies.

TechnoServe and Cargill launching entrepreneur development program in Venezuela to help promising small businesses overcome obstacles to growth; Cargill investing $590,000 over three years.