Major Gift Summary, December 28 to 31, 2009
Monday, January 4, 2010 at 12:25PM Major Gifts in the USA - $845 million & International - $38.5 million
Week of December 28 to December 31, 2009
The following list of donations is from newswire announcements over the last week.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
William Penn Foundation received $747 million from the Haas charitable trusts |
$767,000,000 |
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Cleveland, Ohio |
Cleveland Foundation awarded grants to a wide range of Ohio nonprofits including:
Cleveland Metropolitan School District - $750,000
Starting Point - $450,000 |
$15,000,000 |
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Baltimore, Maryland |
A grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to four East Baltimore public schools in support of a redevelopment project the schools will become centers for providing health, social and employment services to students and their families under a four-year grant program |
$12,000,000 |
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Pasadena, California |
OneWest Bank, FSB establishes new corporate foundation with this gift |
$10,000,000 |
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East River Area of New York |
The Alphawood Foundation of Chicago grant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island to help fund the construction of this new park |
$10,000,000 |
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Palo Alto, California |
The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation awarded research grants to four groups working to improve clinical care for patients with brain tumors and design new strategies to boost the efficiency of treatment development Ronald A. DePinho and Lynda Chin, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute John H. Sampson and Joseph R. Nevins, Duke University Sanjiv Gambhir and Andrei Iagaru, Stanford University Michael Prados, University of California, San Francisco |
$9,800,000 |
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Madison, Wisconsin |
University of Wisconsin received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support studies to identify virus mutations that may serve as early warnings or pandemic influenza viruses |
$9,500,000 |
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Reston, Virginia |
ASNE received a grant over five years from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to sustain the country's premier training opportunity for high school journalism advisers from 2010 through 2014 |
$4,646,100 |
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Santa Paula, California |
Thomas Aquinas College received a grant from the |
$2,000,000 |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Tufts Health Plan Foundation awarded grants to nonprofits in the state of Massachusetts including: East End House - $25,000 Cambridge Community Foundation - $10,000 |
$2,000,000 |
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Indianapolis, Indiana |
A cash gift to Community Health Network Foundation from John W. "Jack" Heiney, a retired president and CEO of Indiana Gas Co. that later merged to become Vectren Corp. |
$1,000,000 |
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Uniontown, Pennsylvania |
An estate gift from retired coal miner Joseph Raymond to Uniontown Church who was 90 years old when he died earlier this year |
$1,000,000 |
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Mankato, Minnesota |
Al Annexstad’s gift to the St. Peter School District that he grew up in, a legacy gift |
$500,000 |
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Newark, |
The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey grants to eight New Jersey nonprofits to support health services and arts programs for local communities. New Jersey YMCA State Alliance in Trenton - $143,000 New Jersey Network Foundation in Trenton - $75,000 Children's Futures in Trenton - $50,000 HiTOPS in Princeton - $25,000 Prevention Education in Lawrence - $15,000 Women's Heart Foundation in West Trenton - $15,000 Thirty-eight charitable organizations received $936,500 during this fourth round of grant giving in 2009; the Horizon Foundation has awarded more than $1.9 million in grants to 96 organizations in 2009. |
$380,500 |
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Detroit, Michigan |
DTE Energy employees and the DTE Energy Foundation raised more than $300,000 to help the hungry during their annual holiday fund-raising drive. Salvation Army, multiple locations - $56,321 Coalition on Temporary Shelter, Detroit - $36,074 Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit - $32,651 Gleaners Community Food Bank, multiple locations, - $27,738 St. Martin Lutheran Church, Port Huron - $11,120 Forgotten Harvest, Inc., Oak Park - $10,070 Macomb Food Program, Clinton Township - $5,570 Mel Trotter Ministries, Grand Rapids - $3,545 Family Counseling and Shelter Services of Monroe County, Monroe - $2,945 |
$300,000 |
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Charlotte, North Carolina |
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$250,000 |
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Athens, Georgia |
Athens Community Foundation $150,000 in grants to 28 local nonprofit organizations |
$150,000 |
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Dover, Delaware |
Delaware Does More, a nonprofit run by the United Way of Delaware and the Food Bank of Delaware received a corporate donation from AstraZeneca |
$100,000 |
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Sunman, Indiana |
Sunman Rural Fire Department received a grant from the Dearborn Community Foundation for a new mobile air compressor |
$90,651 |
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King of Prussia, Pennsylvania |
CSL Behring, a global leader in the plasma-protein biotherapies industry and a subsidiary of CSL Limited awarded four advocacy grants to patient organizations in the USA through the Local Empowerment for Advocacy Development |
$87,000 |
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Youngstown, Ohio |
The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. received a donation from JP Morgan Chase to help fund two projects for homeownership and the reuse of vacant land |
$60,000 |
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Topeka, Kansas |
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation awarded six area school nurses grants |
$53,000 |
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Bakersfield, California |
Ag Against Hunger has received a total of $34,590 in grants for equipment and operations from a group of donors: Grower-Shipper Foundation - $5,000 Yellow Brick Road Benefit Shop - $2,000 Heal Family Charitable Trust - $2,890 Tom & Mary Gallagher Foundation - $2,000 Miller Family Trust - $500 |
$34,590 |
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San Francisco, California |
The San Francisco Foundation awarded a grant to Conard House, a one year grant, to continue implementation of a five-year strategic mental health education initiative |
$30,000 |
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Dedham, Massachusetts |
Needham Bank sponsors new scoreboard at Dedham High School |
Corporate Sponsor |
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International |
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Paris, France |
Constellation Energy Group announced a contribution by Electricite de France to the company's foundation The Constellation Energy Group Foundation supports programs and makes grants to nonprofit organizations in four focus areas: energy, education, economic growth and the environment. |
$36,000,000 |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Michael J. Fox Foundation awards $2 million in grants to researchers: Simon Lewis, MD, Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic, Brain & Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia Colum MacKinnon, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois Wayne Martin, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
$2,000,000 |
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Paris, France |
The French Hospital Medical Center Foundation has set up an endowment fund after receiving a donation from an anonymous donor |
$500,000 |
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Hampshire, England |
Hampshire Autistic Society got a corporate gift from the Gannett Foundation |
£3,300 |
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Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
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