# Google gives over $115 million to organisations around the world

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/12/15/google-gives-over-115-million-organisations-around-world/
- Published: 2011-12-15T12:29:34+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Google has announced that it has donated more than $115 million during 2011 to nonprofit
organizations and academic institutions around the world.

The donations by Google.org, Google’s charitable foundation, includes $40 million
supporting four specific causes:

• science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education;

• girls’ education;

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• empowerment through technology;

• and fighting human trafficking and modern-day slavery.

UK charities that have benefited from grants include [BBC World Service Trust](http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust),
[CAMFED International](http://www.camfed.org), [Bletchley Park Trust](http://www.bletchleypark.org)
and [Generating Genius](http://generatinggenius.org.uk).

The donation of £550,000 to the Bletchley Park Trust was towards the match funding
it needs to embark on the first stage of a £15 million project to transform the 
site into a world-class heritage and education centre. Google has supported the 
Trust before: in 2010 it helped it to [purchase the Turing Papers](http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/635610).

In addition to the grants, Google said that its in-kind support programmes such 
as [Google Grants (free Google AdWord advertising)](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/15/google-grants-for-charities/)
and Google Apps for Education were worth to more than $1 billion to nonprofits. 
The company’s annual GoogleServe event and simialr programmes resulted in Google
staff volunteering more than 40,000 hours of their own time.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/giving-back-in-2011.html

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