Compiled by Roberta Boginis
Chapman University in Orange received the following gifts this year: a $10 million donation from Roger C. Hobbs, Chapman trustee and president of R.C. Hobbs Co. in Orange, to create the Roger C. Hobbs Institute for Real Estate, Law and Environmental Studies. Helen Hoag donated $3 million to establish the C. Larry Hoag Center for Real Estate and Finance in the real estate institute. A $6 million gift was given from the A. Gary Anderson Family Foundation, in which the university’s athletics complex will bear the name of alumna and athlete Erin J. Lastinger, the foundation’s chairman. In addition, the science library received $2 million from Onnolee Elliott to fund a collection endowment to buy science and technology books and materials. The building was named the Onnolee Elliott Ph.D. Library of Science and Technology.
Boeing Co. donated $150,000 and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation gave a $200,000 grant to create online courses to prepare K-12 science and math teachers for the California Subject Examinations for Teachers. The University of California, Irvine’s Distance Learning Center, will design the courses. The classes will be offered through UC Irvine Extension.
Girls and Boys Town of Southern California, an affiliate of Father Flanagan’s Boys Town in Omaha, Neb., raised more than $160,000 at its annual gala and auction, The Spirit of Youth. Orange County’s “No Doubt” donated an autographed guitar, which went for $10,000.
Thirty-five high school seniors received $103,000 in scholarship money from 21 companies, government agencies and business groups at the 15th annual 2005 Scholarship Awards program hosted by the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce and Vanguard University.
Saddleback College received a $100,000 pledge from the Irvine Health Foundation for education programs at the college’s recently opened health sciences facility. The school expects an increase in health sciences students.
Irvine-based United Agribusiness League gave 23 scholarships worth $50,000 to students studying agriculture and related fields.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County received $25,400 from Federated Department Stores Inc.’s Macy’s summer fund-raiser. Macy’s matched funds raised at the event.
Easton Sports Inc. donated $25,000 of hockey gear to Disney Goals for its hockey program for underprivileged youth.
The Black Chamber Education Fund received more than $27,000 from the Black Chamber of Orange County’s 14th annual gala. The event, called Cotton Club West-Puttin’ on the Ritz, was at the Grove of Anaheim.
The following groups donated funds to the Second Harvest Food Bank: McMaster-Carr Supply Co., $7,000; Canaday Family Fund of the Homebuilding Community Foundation, $5,000; Norris Foundation, $5,000; Haskell Fund, $3,500; Marjorie Mosher Schmidt Foundation, $2,500; Union Bank of California, $2,500; and Linda I. Smith Foundation, $1,000.
The Paul Merage School of Business at UCI, the Home Depot Foundation, Material Handling Education Foundation and others were recipients of a $23,000 donation from Irvine-based Toyota Material Handling USA Inc. and Toyota Industries Corp.
Dana Capital Group in Irvine donated $20,000 to Habitat for Humanity in Orange County for its Katrina Relief Fund. Meanwhile, the company donated $10,000 as platinum sponsor of Celebrating Our Stars, an annual barbecue that raises funds for San Juan Capistrano’s Shea Center, which helps people with disabilities ride horses.
The National Council on Economic Education gave grants of $19,587 to Andrew Gill and Chiara Gratton-Lavoie, who are studying the economic literacy of 12th-grade students in three Orange County school districts. Gratton-Lavoie is director of California State University, Fullerton’s Center for Economics Education and a lecturer in economics. Gill is a professor of economics at Cal State Fullerton.
Share Our Strength and Parade Magazine donated $14,390 to Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County as part of the Great American Bake Sale. The event is held annually and proceeds go to Share Our Strength, a group aimed at ending child hunger in the U.S.
Gary’s Place for Kids, a Laguna Hills-based nonprofit that provides grief support for OC children dealing with a family member or friend’s death, received $6,500 from Bisnar & Chase LLP. The Newport Beach-based law firm raised the money at a silent auction held in tandem with the grand opening of its new offices.
The Volunteer Center Orange County received $5,000 from the Disneyland Cast Community Fund and $2,500 from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for nonprofit programs.
