Chuck Lorre is donating $10 million towards research education for underserved communities, through his family’s philanthropic foundation. The considerable gift, given via the Chuck Lorre Family Foundation to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) aims to support research education for high school and college students, particularly those from under-resourced communities across greater Los Angeles. The Chuck […]
Toyota Indiana is donating $300,000 to a children’s museum in Princeton, to help them reach more kids with a mobile unit. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana held a large event on Thursday in Princeton, Indiana to announce the release of their first new 2024 Lexus, which is the first Lexus to be made in the state. […]
The US Embassy is donating a $3.5 million field hospital and ambulance to Tobago’s emergency response In a gesture of enduring partnership, the US Embassy has donated a 40-bed field hospital and an ambulance, valued together at approximately $3.5 million, to the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA). The donation is a symbol of the United […]
Governors Point has been donated by a private owner to conserve undeveloped land on the Chuckanut Bay shoreline. Randy Bishop, a Canadian business owner living in White Rock, bought Governor’s Point in 2018 for $5.7 million. At the time, his plans for the wooded little peninsula south of Bellingham, Washington were to build a development […]
The Montana Heritage Center is getting a $10.4 million donation from Montana native millionaire Norm Asbjornson. Norm Asbjornson is from Winifred, Montana. He founded AAON, a publicly-traded heating, ventilation, and air conditioning manufacturer that has made him wealthy. In 2021, AAON made a profit of $535 million, and Asbjornson’s net worth is estimated between $500 […]
An anonymous donor has given the largest ever gift to a University of Kansas business school, of $50 million. The University of Kansas’ School of Business received a monumental boost with an anonymous donor contributing a generous $50 million, marking the largest single gift in the history of the institution’s business school. This substantial endowment […]
Publix Supermarkets is donating $1 million to support relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, Northern Florida’s worst landfall in over a century. Publix is the largest employee-owned company in the United States, a supermarket chain with over 1,300 stores in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, and the Carolinas. With over 250,000 employees, they’ve been […]
Metallica is donating $200,000 for emergency relief efforts during the wildfire catastrophe in Lahaina, Hawaii. The Lahaina wildfire is the worst natural disaster to strike Hawaii in almost 70 years, and may yet surpass the 1946 tsunami’s death toll of 150. As of Wednesday, the official death count is 106, 1,300 are still missing, and […]
Dwayne Johnson has contributed a ‘historic’ amount to SAG-AFTRA to help provide for union actors on strike. The Screen Actors’ Guild won’t disclose the specific amount other than to say that it’s in seven figures, but they are the ones calling it historic, and the largest total contribution ever received from a single individual. Two […]
Seth MacFarlane donates $1 million to support industry workers during the joint strikes of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA. Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Orville, could easily say he has to straddle the line between the Screen Actors’ Guild and the the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. He’s a member of both, an actor […]