• Washington State University receives a $25 million grant from the Gates Foundation to study infectious diseases.  [Associated Press]

• I.B.M. announces a new Corporate Service Corps program, which enables employees to volunteer abroad.  [New York Times]

• The Wikipedia Foundation recieves $3 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.  [Washington Post]

• A U.S. based anti-cancer group organizes rock concert on Mount Everest to raise cancer awareness.  [Reuters]

• New Orleans charities are looking toward fire-ravaged Southern California with an urge to help.  [The Times-Picayune]

Washington Post:  Two years after California voters passed a landmark $3 billion bond measure for stem cell research, not a single bond has been sold and not a penny of bond money has been spent. The fund is caught up in court challenges.

New York Times: SnackWell’s Sugar-Free Lemon Creme cookies have nearly as many calories as some sugar-rich cookies. Yet until recently the box featured an American Diabetes Association logo, advertising the cookie as a “proud sponsor” of the charity’s efforts on behalf of the nation’s 21 million diabetics.

Chicago Tribune:  Every October, products from tweezers to toothpaste get packaged in pink.  It's all sold with the promise of promoting breast cancer awareness or benefiting breast cancer charities. Breast cancer has become the darling disease of corporate philanthropy -- especially during national breast cancer awareness month.