Irvine Foundation gives $250,000 to help farmworkers
“The James Irvine Foundation said Thursday it gave $250,000 to four community groups to help the state’s farmworkers. The San Francisco foundation gave the money to help workers who have lost jobs...
View ArticleDonation of $500,000 to Governor’s charity linked to favorable laws for AT&T
The Los Angeles Times has reported that the $500,000 donation AT&T gave to one of Governor Schwarzenegger’s charities came just six months after the governor signed a law lifting barriers to the...
View ArticleUCSB Receives $12.5 Million Gift for the California NanoSystems Institute
The University of California, Santa Barbara has announced that Virgil Elings and Betty Elings Wells have made a $12.5 million gift to UC Santa Barbara to support pioneering research at the California...
View ArticleMore on the funding of Schwarzenegger’s luxury junkets
The Los Angeles Times has written still another expose of Governor Schwarzenegger’s use of shadowy “non-profit organizations” funded by “undisclosed donors” to pay for his foreign trips-...
View ArticleGoogle put up $30 million for robot race to the moon
No, this is not an article from “The Onion” – it is from the San Jose Business Journal: Google Inc. said Thursday it will sponsor a $30 million robot race to the moon. Mountain View-based Google said...
View ArticleAT&T gives $500,000 to Mexican-American Opportunity Foundation
Press Release: AT&T today announced a $500,000 contribution to be paid over the next two years to the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF), a community-based organization providing a wide...
View ArticleDow gives UC Berkeley $2 million for sustainable products program
The University of California, Berkeley got a $2 million gift from the Dow Chemical Co. Foundation that will pay to start a new program providing teaching and research opportunities in the area of...
View ArticleUCSF wins $5 million from Gates Foundation to fight malaria and improve...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $5 million to the University of California, San Francisco, to promote and implement promising strategies against global health crises, according to a...
View ArticleWells Fargo gives $100K to Hispanic chamber
Wells Fargo made a $100,000 grant to the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, of which $25,000 will be used to start a CHCC Foundation. Since 2000, the bank has given more than $1 million to the...
View ArticleBank of America donates $900,000 to Bay Area nonprofits
Bank of America has awarded grants totaling $900,000 to Bay Area nonprofits. As reported in San Francisco Business Times, four organizations won $200,000 unrestricted grants as part of Bank of America...
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