|
|
 |
Minnesota Corporate Philanthropy News and Notes
February 18, 2008
 |
General Mills has committed $5 million
over the next three years to the General Mills African Women and
Children's Hunger Project, which focuses on Malawi and
Tanzania. The program is designed to help alleviate hunger
and create a sustainable agriculture in Africa by educating,
empowering and economically supporting women as farmers, food
processors and providers. The project is the next phase of a
philanthropic/ volunteer effort that began last year when many
employees and their families reached out across the globe to help
address hunger in Malawi by packing and sending one million meals to
malnourished children at five schools in the country. The project
provided food for 3,000 children. |
 |
In honor of
Ecolab's corporate philanthropy, an information fair
will be hosted by the Community and Public Relations Department at
the corporate headquarters. The Ecolab Foundation recently
celebrated over 20 years of charitable giving in communities around
the United States where Ecolab has a major plant location. |
 |
Qwest Foundation for Education provided Minnesota Children's
Museum with $5,000 to support the museum's professional development
workshops for educators. The workshops deliver content for
Minnesota's pre-K and elementary teachers that enhance classroom
instruction, while adhering to Minnesota's academic standards.
Workshops are delivered throughout the calendar year in content
areas of math, science, language arts, social studies, art and
music, and health and fitness. |
 |
To commemorate its 120th anniversary, H.B. Fuller Company
donated $50,000 to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education
Foundation to support science, technology, engineering and math
(STEM) education. The donation
will open the first Science, Technology & Engineering Preview Summer
Academy programs in Minnesota, enabling enable 120 Minnesota students to attend. The co-ed day camps introduce middle-school
students to careers in science, technology, engineering and math
through fun and challenging hands-on projects. |
 |
The Hormel Foundation awarded two grants totaling $2.8 million
to Austin Public Schools. The high school's Programs of Excellence
will receive $1.5 million for science laboratory renovation,
resulting in separate labs for physics, advanced placement biology,
general science and chemistry. The district will also receive $1.3
million to fund fellowships for professional development and
advanced coursework certificates and degrees for math, science and
literacy. |
 |
The Deluxe Corporation Foundation awarded a $610,000 grant to
the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management to
support the construction of Herbert M. Hanson Jr. Hall and help
endow its Entrepreneur Intern Program, which provides funding for
early-stage businesses that are otherwise unable to offer paid
internships. The remaining $110,000 will
help fund the construction of the new Herbert M. Hanson Jr. Hall,
which will house the expanded undergraduate program and will be open
for the 2008-09 school year. |
 |
AgStar Fund for Rural America awarded $10,000 to the Brainerd High School Farm
to purchase a cattle herd for the Project BEEF
(Bovine Embryo transfer Engineering the Future) program. Working
with the U of M Extension Beef Team, the students will assist in
conducting research and collecting data on beef research projects
and provide educational outreach with livestock producers in the
community. |
 |
In 2007, Land O'Lakes donated a total of $28,500 to 100 nonprofit
organizations where employees and retirees volunteered 17,434 hours. The
organizations benefiting from the most Land O'Lakes volunteer hours:
- Fort Snelling National Cemetery, where a retiree donated
1,000 hours as a member of the volunteer rifle squad
- Barron County Ag Fair Society, Ridgeland, Wis., where volunteers donated 990
hours to 4H and dairy cattle programs
- Christian Ministry of Huntingburg, Ind., where volunteers donated
480 hours to the foodshelf
- American Cancer Society, where volunteers spent 636 hours participating in
Relay for Life events nationwide
|
 |
The CHS Foundation is helping strengthen agricultural education
and leadership in Minnesota as a Distinguished Star Partner of the
Minnesota FFA Foundation. Through the Star Partner Program, the CHS
Foundation's $25,000 contribution will fund a wide array of
year-round activities under the Minnesota Team Ag Ed banner,
reaching high school and college students, high school instructors,
and FFA alumni and supporters. Organizations under the Minnesota
Team Ag Ed umbrella that benefit from the contribution include the
Minnesota FFA Association, Minnesota Association of Agricultural
Educators, Minnesota FFA Alumni Association, Post Secondary
Agricultural Student Organization (PAS), and Agricultural Education
through the University of Minnesota. |
 |
Ecolab awarded more than $675,000 for grants to individual
classroom educators for curriculum materials in communities across
the U.S. where Ecolab associates live and work. Visions for Learning
grants are given to kindergarten-through-12th grade teachers to
creatively motivate students, help them achieve at grade level in
basic skills, enrich the classroom experience and engage students.
Projects funded this year included materials for an urban watershed
service learning project, literacy center materials, materials for
science classrooms and an innovative request
for a wind turbine. |
>
More headlines
|
|
