Reply #363: Google's charitable donations

[Dorian Gray]

as per their foundation's website:

www.google.org


Grants and Investments
As of January 2008, Google.org has committed over $75 million in grants and investments to further our five initiatives. These include:

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eSolar Inc.: $10 million investment to support R&D on solar thermal power to produce utility-scale power cheaper than coal
Makani Power Inc.: $10 million investment to support R&D on high-altitude wind energy extraction technologies aimed at producing utility-scale power cheaper than coal
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Brookings Institution: $200,000 to support a conference in spring 2008 on federal policy to promote plug-in hybrids
CalCars: $200,000 multi-year grant to the California Cars Initiative to support their work educating the public about plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs)
Electric Power Research Institute: $200,000 to support EPRI's plug-in vehicle research and development program including participating in advanced infrastructure development, vehicle-to-grid technology demonstrations, and studies of the environmental and economic benefits of plug-ins
Plug-In America: $100,000 to raise public awareness of and to advocate for plug-in transportation options
Rocky Mountain Institute: $200,000 to partially fund an 'Innovation Workshop' to promote new strategies for greater production and market adoption of plug-in next-generation hybrid vehicles
Dr. Willett Kempton at University of Delaware: $150,000 for megawatt plug-in to grid research and implementation planning
Predict and Prevent
InSTEDD: $5,000,000 multi-year grant to establish this nonprofit organization focused on improving early detection, preparedness, and response capabilities for global health threats and humanitarian crises
Global Health and Security Initiative: $2,500,000 multi-year grant to strengthen national and sub-regional disease surveillance systems in the Mekong Basin area (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and China-Yunnan province)
Clark University for Clark Labs: $617,457 to Clark University, with equal funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, to support the development of a system to improve monitoring, analysis and prediction of the impacts of climate variability and change on ecosystems, food, and health in Africa and the Amazon
HealthMap: $450,000 multi-year grant to conduct in-depth research into the use of online data sources for disease surveillance
Inform and Empower
Pratham: $2,000,000 to create an independent institute that will conduct the Nationwide Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) and large scale assessments in the education sector
Institute for Finance Management & Research (IFMR): $1,015,000 multi-year grant to create district level development indices in India and to support mapping of information including research, government, non-government, and NGO database information
PRS Legislative Research: $880,000 multi-year grant to increase citizen engagement, track the performance of members of parliament, and procure photocopies of state laws throughout India
Center for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS): $765,000 multi-year grant to create a Budget Information Service for local governments in India, with the goal of facilitating better district and municipal-level planning
Centre for Policy Research (CPR): $600,000 multi-year grant to increase the debate and discourse on issues of urban local governance and urban service delivery in light of the rapid expansion of cities in India
Center for Global Development (CGD):
$150,000 grant to help CGD grow and continue to expand their work on education and outcome based assessments
$220,000 grant to support the launch of the International Initiative on Impact Evaluation (3IE), which will bring new financial and technical resources to conduct and disseminate impact evaluations around the world
Fuel Growth of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
TechnoServe: $1.7 million for managing the business plan competitions and entrepreneurship programs in Ghana and Tanzania since 2006
TechnoServe: $3 million as a general support grant to expand TechnoServe's efforts to support enterprises, spur job creation, and strengthen poverty alleviation programs in the Africa region
Acumen Fund: $5.2 million to build and support innovative enterprises serving the poor through market-oriented approaches
Grameen Foundation: $200,000 to assess the potential for mobile applications to provide information for rural enterprises and households in East Africa
Special Projects & Learning Grants
Energy Foundation: $50,000 for climate change research
NRDC:
$100,000 to support the Environmental Entrepreneurs Climate Campaign to assist with the implementation of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (California's AB 32)
$2,000,000 to create a Center on Energy Efficiency Standards to help the US and China achieve major reductions in the use of electricity and natural gas – and significantly cut associated global warming pollution and energy bills – through voluntary and mandatory efficiency standards for buildings, equipment and appliances
ONE Action Campaign: up to $3,000,000 to ensure global health and development issues, specifically the need to conquer malaria, are prominently represented in 2008 U.S. presidential election campaigns
PlanetRead: $345,000 to support Same Language Subtitling (SLS) programs in India
Seva Foundation: $2,000,000 to support programs to prevent blindness and restore eyesight in India, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Tanzania and Guatemala
TEDGlobal / Sapling Foundation: $100,000 grant to support the TEDGlobal-sponsored Fellows' Program which seeks to provide African entrepreneurs with financial and other philanthropic support, as well as communication technologies to make markets and governments more efficient
UC Berkeley Regents: $451,000 to support research on water intervention in Kenya
UC San Francisco: a multi-year grant of $200,000 to support Dr. John Kane's malaria research
World Bank - Development Marketplace: $500,000 to support their international business plan competition that funds innovative, early-stage projects with high potential for development impact
Support for global disease eradication efforts:

The Carter Center: $1,450,000 in matching funds to support guinea worm eradication in Ghana
Rotary Foundation: $3,500,000 in matching funds to support polio eradication globally
Hurricane Katrina Gulf Coast Disaster Response and Recovery:

Accion USA
Trickle Up Program
City Year Louisiana
National Urban League
Greater New Orleans Foundation
Liberty Bank