Pom Wonderful Owners Make Big Donation For Sustainability

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jun 17th 2009 at 6:01PM

Billionaire couple Stewart and Lynda Resnick made another big donation recently. The Los Angeles couple who are behind Pom Wonderful, Fiji Water, Teleflora and other brands have donated $20 million to the California Institute of Technology for the Resnick Sustainability Institute. The new center, which will focus on using science and engineering developments for new energy technologies, has a total budget of $90 million. The Gordon and Betty Moore Matching Program contributed another $10 million to launching the project.

In a press release announcing the gift the Resnicks stated that they are "passionately committed to finding alternative and sustainable energy solutions." Stewart Resnick is a member of the Board of Trustees for the school. Last year the Resnicks made a $55 million pledge to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

[via Los Angeles Business Journal]

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Wesley Aug 25th 2009 6:35PM

Before you praise the Resnicks you might want to Google them, as much as they donate it still leaves them time to screw the little people on a pretty large scale.