BEVERLY HILLS, California: Call it Golden Globes Lite. Only instead of trophies, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed out nearly $2 million in grants to nonprofit groups.

The organization behind the annual Golden Globe Awards drew on its boozy dinner model to present the donations Thursday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, with stars including Morgan Freeman, Sofia Vergara, Kerry Washington, Channing Tatum and Robert Pattinson dining together before appearing onstage to accept the grants.

But where the Globes are a free-wheeling affair marked by the occasional drunken acceptance speech, the grants dinner was a staid, hour-long event where everyone stuck to the script.

“How exciting to be here presenting at the Golden Globes!” Jason Segel said, reading from a teleprompter. Anne Heche corrected him that it was a grants presentation, just as her script said.