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WHAM 13 The American Red Cross is thanking Wegmans’ customers for their donations to the tsunami relief fund. In just 12 days, the supermarket chain’s checkout lane campaign raised more than $272,000; that’s in addition to the $100,000 corporate donation from Wegmans. The supermarket is still funneling money to the Red Cross through its CoinStar change-counting machines. … Read entire article »

Working prior to the NBC telethon. Here’s what I have: Claremore Noon Rotary Club: $1,000.00 Maxygen: $25,000.00 Electronic Arts: $250,000.00 Cisco: $1 million from Cisco plus at least another $1 million from the Cisco Foundation to match employee donations. Cisco employees and executives already have donated more than $460,000, and the company expects the figure to top $1 million. Applied Materials: The company also is sending three water purification units made by WaterHealth to India at a cost of about $135,000. Applied Biosystems: $100,000.00 Genentech: $500,000.00 Fort Wayne-South Bend Roman Catholic Diocese: $10,000.00 St. Lucie County Schools FL: $72,000.00 First National Bank N Platte NB: fundraiser $3,203.00 Mine Safety Appliance Co.: 30,000 disposable respirators – a contribution worth approximately $225,000 … Read entire article »

ninemsn The Tiger Woods Foundation is giving $US100,000 ($A130,360) to earthquake-tsunami relief efforts in Asia, and the PGA Tour is matching that amount. Woods’ foundation and the tour are donating the money to Give2Asia, with the money directed toward two groups aimed at providing sanctuary and relief to children affected by the tsunami. … Read entire article »

I have confirmed with Oxfam America that the MoveOn statement on their site concerning member donations is correct. MoveOn members have donated $2.6 million U.S. for tsunami relief. This will be added to THE STINGY LIST in the next update, on Saturday. … Read entire article »

From our government, via e-mail: 254 corporations, 79 confirmed million dollar donors Corporate cash: $160,636,875 Corporate employee donations: $34,944,000 Product donations: $63,711,000 Customer donations & other: $15,538,363 Total from list: $274,830,238 … Read entire article »

Incubus: Grammy award nominated rock band Incubus today announced a number of donations today through their non-profit organization, the Make Yourself Foundation. At the top of the list, the band is donating $100,000 to the American Red Cross Tsunami Relief Fund. BETonSPORTS.com: To help victims affected by the earthquake and tsunami that struck South and Southeast Asia, BETonSPORTS.com and its shareholders have started a relief fund with an initial donation of $25,000. Employees of the company have also begun a collection that they will give to the fund. In addition, over the next 30 days, BETonSPORTS will match donations from its customers dollar for dollar. Raquel Monell: Raquel Monell is battling bone cancer. After nearly three years of painful treatment, the Make A Wish Foundation was going to give the 15-year-old a trip to … Read entire article »

Look over on the left sidebar. Over $615 million U.S. Since I posted that, I’ve discovered another $11 million. A highly placed source has provided me with a huge number of referrals. I did have to exclude several million because I couldn’t find a URL cite for them. I’m being ruthless, to keep things as accurate as I can. Still, it grw by $100 million since the last update. I’m starting to think that it may break a billion dollars before it’s all done. … Read entire article »