Compiled by Kelly Ryan
Boy Scouts of America, Orange County Council youth programs received $463,000 from the 10th Annual New AT & T;/Eukon Group Golf Classic. The live auction included a Rolex watch, Rose Bowl tickets and a puppy donated by Puppy Amore & More.
Real estate investment bank Buchanan Street Partners raised $150,000 at its Encore For Education charity concert. Proceeds from the concert will go to Los Angeles Unified School District music programs. This is the second year for the concert, which was hosted in partnership with VH1 Save the Music Foundation. Buchanan Street does real estate investment management and is based in Newport Beach.
Ralphs Grocery Co. and Food 4 Less of Southern California Inc., both part of Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., gave $100,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County as part of its Bringing Hope to the Table campaign. The donation was presented at the food bank’s new Irvine facility. Present for the donation were Ralphs Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Chuck Ackerman and food bank representatives Bob Whiton and Joe Schoeningh.
Santa Ana nonprofit Think Together received donations totaling $72,500 to fund after-school programs. The Bank of America Foundation donated $15,000, the Warner Family Foundation gave $5,000 and Deacon Charitable Foundation donated $2,500. The Draper Family Foundation gave $50,000 for programs in Costa Mesa and Orange.
The Saddleback Memorial Foundation raised $56,000 at its Golf Classic tournament to benefit programs at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills. The event included a cocktail reception, dinner and
auctions.
USI of Southern California, part of New York’s USI Holding Corp., and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co., part of Germany’s Allianz SE, made a donation of $41,000 to the Orange County Fire Authority and the Newport Beach Fire Department. The money will be used to buy equipment and public education materials.
The Los Angeles Times donated $35,000 to Orange County United Way. The money will help provide food, shelter and clothing to the needy. Additionally, the donation will fund programs that build self-sufficiency through education.
Employees and customers from Banco Popular, part of Puerto Rico-based Popular Inc., raised $19,200 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Orange County/Inland Empire Chap-ter’s Light the Night Walk fundraiser. The funds will support programs for cancer research and patients. The OC chapter is based in Santa Ana. The society also received a $13,000 donation from the Sixth Annual Golf for a Cure tournament, sponsored by Outback Steakhouse, part of OSI Restaurant Partners LLC, and Starbucks Corp.
Munich Reinsurance America Inc.’s specialty markets’ unit donated a 2008 Toyota Prius to the Orangewood Children’s Foundation at this year’s Conference of the Public Risk Manage-ment Association. Two other charities, the Orange County Food Bank and South County Senior Services, each received a $1,000 donation from Munich Re America.
Irvine-based Earthpack donated and distributed 12,000 recycled trash bags to more than 60 chapters of the Surfrider Foundation to help clean beaches on Surfing Day. Earthpack supplies recycled bags and boxes to eco-friendly retailers.
More than 400 employees from the Costa Mesa office of Deloitte & Touche LLP volunteered at the firm’s Impact Day. The largest project took place at Lowell Elementary School, where volunteers helped revitalize the campus by painting, installing benches and murals and landscaping, among other activities.
CommerceWest Bank gave a $6,000 donation to Pretend City, the Children’s Museum of Orange County, a nonprofit to benefit children. The Irvine nonprofit has designed a small city with a grocery store, construction site, health center and farm, which is supposed to encourage problem solving and creativity when children visit it.
