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The Sempra Energy Foundation, the philanthropic arm of energy services company Sempra Energy, has announced a $1 million commitment to nonprofits focused on the environment through its Environmental Champions initiative.



Full text article is available via Philanthropy News Digest, 8/27/10.

The Sempra Energy Foundation, the philanthropic arm of energy services company Sempra Energy, has announced a $1 million commitment to nonprofits focused on the environment through its Environmental Champions initiative.

Full text article is available via Philanthropy News Digest, 8/27/10.

Stanley F. Druckenmiller, who earlier this month announced plans to close his hedge fund, Duquesne Capital Management LLC, will join the ranks of other business titans, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former Citigroup chair Sanford "Sandy" Weill, who stepped away from the business world while at the top of their game to devote more time to philanthropy

Full text article is available via Bloomberg, 8/30/10.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of America has announced a three-year, $3 million grant from the Staples Foundation for Learning to continue its support of BCGA's Torch Clubs program. The commitment will enable BGCA to expand the program, which works to foster character development, positive self-esteem and personal growth, listening and speaking skills, and academic achievement in youth between the ages of 11 and 13. The new grant extends a previous six-year, $6 million commitment from the Staples Foundation to the program.



Full text article is available via the Atlanta Business Chronicle, 8/24/10.

UnitedHealthcare has announced a three-year, $1.95 million commitment to the American Heart Association to help encourage Americans to start and maintain walking and exercise regimens. The funding will be used to help establish walking paths around the country, with the goal of creating a hundred and fifty new paths in the first year, and to provide expanded online resources through the association's Start! Walking Web site.

Full text article is available via United Healthcare News Report, 8/18/10.

The New Jersey-based Prudential Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $3.5 million to nonprofits working to promote quality public education, enhanced community-based economic development, and sustainable livable communities.

Full text article is available via Philanthropy News Digest, 8/27/10.

The GE Foundation has announced a $2 million grant to the Louisiana Public Health Institute to increase access to school-based health centers in New Orleans. Awarded through GE's $25 million Developing Health program, which is designed to improve primary care access in underserved U.S. communities, the grant will support an effort by LPHI's School Health Connection program to increase use of school-based health centers among already eligible students while extending services to students in neighboring schools, family members, and nearby residents.

Full text article is available via Market Watch, 8/24/10.

The St. Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara has announced grants totaling nearly $1.2 million to twenty-six organizations providing safety-net services to residents of the South Coast area.

Full text article is available via Philanthropy News Digest, 8/21/10.

The University of Wisconsin System board of regents has recommended that state funds be put in place to permit construction in 2011 of a 100,000square-foot building for the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing.

Full text article is available via The Business Journal, 8/20/10.