Wells Fargo store managers select 52 local nonprofit organizations to receive $1,000 in unsolicited grants at company’s annual Community Support Breakfast.

Wells Fargo awarded 52 nonprofits with $1,000 in unsolicited contributions as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to support the communities it serves. The gifting ceremony was held at the Westlake Village Inn on Oct. 20. Organizations receiving the grant money included: A Foundation for Kids; Animal Regulation Volunteer Auxiliary; Arts for Action; Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Clara Valley; Boys & Girls Clubs of Ventura; Calabash Charter Academy; Camarillo Hospice; Causes from the Heart (Alexandria House); Chabad Israel Center; Children's Learning Center; Citrus Glen Elementary; Community Leaders Association; Conejo Elementary; CSU Channel Islands Foundation; El Centrito Family Learning Centers; Envision Center – MOPS; Farming Independence; Fillmore Middle School; FOOD Share; For the Troops; Friends of the Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library; Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County; Hope Ranch Animal Rescue; Interface Children & Family Services; Joy of All Who Sorrow; Kessab Educational Association of Los Angeles; Kidsave; Little Edwin's Triumph; Loving Heart Hospice; Malibu Foundation for Youth & Families; Mattel Children's Hospital; Muscular Dystrophy Association; Ocean Charter School; Oxnard Police Activities League; Piru Youth Sports/Piru Neighborhood Council; Roosevelt Elementary School Booster Club; Say No to Drugs Race; School on Wheels; Senior Nutrition Action Council; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Stillpoint Family Resources; Stitches from the Heart; Tender Heart Haven; The Lighthouse Christian Academy; the Wellness Community; Triunfo YMCA; Ventura Education Partnership; Ventura Family YMCA; Ventura Wildcats; Virginia Avenue Project; and Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology.

Wells Fargo & Company invested a record $17.3 million in 1,600 schools and nonprofits in Greater Ventura and Los Angeles counties in 2010 – up 16 percent from 2009. In addition, Greater Los Angeles Wells Fargo employees contributed more than $5 million and 27,724 volunteer hours to local nonprofits and schools to help their neighborhoods and communities succeed. Total investments in the community by Wells Fargo and its employees exceeded $22 million in 2010. Nationwide, the Company invested a record $219 million in grants in 19,000 nonprofits, and team members contributed more than 1.3 million volunteer hours around the country. For more information, please visit: www.wellsfargo.com/about/csr.

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.3 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores, 12,000 ATMs, the Internet (wellsfargo.com and wachovia.com), and other distribution channels across North America and internationally. With more than 270,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in America. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 23 on Fortune’s 2011 rankings of America’s largest corporations. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially.