The Pacific Life Foundation gave more than $2.7 million in grants to nonprofit groups earlier this week.
The foundation, affiliated with Pacific Life Insurance Company, Newport Beach, Calif., gave one of the biggest grants, for $120,060, to Junior Achievement of Orange County & Inland Empire, Costa Mesa, Calif.
The Junior Achievement chapter will use the grant to run a business and economics program that reaches 3,000 students in about 46 middle schools.