AROUND TECH VALLEY.(Business)

DONATIONS

Empire BlueCross awarded a $30,000 grant to Senior Services of Albany's Meals on Wheels Programs. The local Meals on Wheels delivers more than 1,000 meals every day to disabled and homebound elderly and in 2008 delivered more than 308,000 meals.

GRAB BAG

Scott Schulz, a certified equity professional with Valuation Resource Group in East Greenbush, received a Volunteer Excellence Award from the Certified Equity Professional Institute. This award honors a volunteers' service and efforts over the past year.

ON THE BOARD

Laurene Curtin of Niskayuna, sales manager at the Niskayuna office of Veronica W. Lynch Inc., is …