Wells Fargo & Co.’s Orange County offices pledged $368,000 to local nonprofit organizations and schools through its annual Community Support and United Way Campaign.
Santa Ana-based Think Together, a provider of after-school learning programs, received a $250,000 grant from Southern California Edison, part of Rosemead-based Edison International, to support Think Together’s science, technology, engineering and math education.
The Orange County/Inland Empire chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team in Training program raised $827,154 for blood cancer research. Volunteers train and participate in marathons, triathlons, bicycling and hiking events and seek pledges from supporters. The program has trained 389,000 participants.
Cypress-based Bandai America Inc.’s Bandai Foundation donated $495,000 to national and local charities at the company’s “Dessert Social” event. Charities included Cypress Boys & Girls Club, Ronald McDonald House of Southern California, Friends of Cypress Parks and Recreation, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America, St. Jude Medical Center, City of Hope, Starlight Starbright, Toys for Tots, United Way, American Cancer Association, Second Harvest Food Bank, Community Action Partnership, Toys “R” Us Children’s Funds, Toy Industry Foundation and National Center for Family Homelessness. Bandai America is a toymaker that’s part of Japan’s Namco Bandai Holdings Inc.
The Junior League of Orange County in Newport Beach, an organization of women that promotes voluntarism, held its 34th annual fundraiser and raised $200,000.
The 44th annual benefit event for Orange-based Providence Speech and Hearing Center, dubbed “Saddle Up,” raised $157,000 at the Marriott Hotel in Irvine.
Junior Achievement of Orange County in Costa Mesa, a nonprofit that educates young people about business, received $120,060 from Pacific Life Foundation, the giving arm of Pacific Life Insurance Co. The money will allow Junior Achievement to provide 92 classes of their Economics for Success program in 46 OC middle schools.
Aliso Viejo-based Most Brand Development + Advertising’s Top of the Hill Team participated in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Bay-to-Bay Tour and raised $28,000. The tour is a 30-, 100- or 150-mile bike ride along the Southern California coast.
Children’s Hospital of Orange County in Orange received $25,000 from the 17th Annual Anime Charity Auction. The event was held by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation.
Costa Mesa-based Working Wardrobes was given $10,000 from Santa Ana-based Dhont Family Foundation and $5,250 from Boston-based State Street Foundation. The money will help the organization continue to provide career development services to the needy.
Illinois-based Grainger Foundation donated $10,000 to Santiago Canyon College in Orange. The money will be used for Santiago’s Career Technical Education classroom, which will be known as the Grainger Room. The room will be used for the new California Code Enforcement Officer training program, the new Green/Sustainable Building Code classes and for public works programs.
Louis Orozco donates $10,000 to Newport Beach-based Knots-of-Love Inc., which gives hand-knitted hats and beanies to chemotherapy patients. Orozco, owner of Madison Salon in Newport Beach, raised the money by competing in Ironman Arizona in Tempe. He finished the triathlon in 13 hours and 11 minutes.
The Barney & Barney Foundation of San Diego and the Lon V. Smith Foundation of Beverly Hills each donated $5,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County in Tustin. The Vintage Chevrolet Club of America’s OC chapter in Orange donated $2,600.
San Diego-based Sempra Energy Foundation, the giving arm of Sempra Energy, gave $5,000 to Garden Grove’s Community Action Partnership of Orange County to help prevent poverty.
Mission San Juan Capistrano received $5,000 from AT&T Inc. for its Adopt-A-Class programs. The programs allow California fourth-graders to take part in a free field trip with guided tour to the mission.
