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Records Set at Annual Comerica Shred Day in Southeast Michigan

Posted: Jun 27, 2019 – 01:56 PM EST

DETROIT, Jun. 27 /CSRwire/ - Residents participating in the annual Comerica Bank Shred Day in Southeast Michigan securely shredded approximately 111,000 pounds of documents, which was the largest total collected at a single site by Iron Mountain over the 12-year history of Comericas...

Arrow Electronics Hosts Robotics Workshop for Local Girl Scouts

Posted: Jun 27, 2019 – 01:49 PM EST

DENVER, Jun. 27 /CSRwire/ - Arrow Electronics hosted a robotics workshop at its Centennial, Colo. headquarters to help local Girl Scouts in 4th and 5th grade earn their Designing Robots badge. Twenty Girl Scouts participated in the program, learning to build robot prototypes...

ImpactAssets Celebrates Ten-Year Anniversary as Assets Top $1 Billion

Posted: Jun 27, 2019 – 09:53 AM EST

BETHESDA, Md., Jun. 27 /CSRwire/ - ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services firm that increases the flow of capital into investments delivering financial, social and environmental returns, celebrated its ten-year anniversary by announcing today that assets under management in The Giving Fund, its donor...

World Refugee Day: Taking Steps for the Globally Displaced

Posted: Jun 25, 2019 – 04:57 PM EST

Jun. 25 /CSRwire/ - Cisco | CSR Blog What if San Francisco was suddenly empty? Or New York City? Or both? Imagine over 9 million people fleeing their homes, families and friends, schools, and jobsleaving two of the United States most populous cities...

Closing the Digital Divide: How Comcast-NBCUniversal Does Community Impact

Posted: Jun 25, 2019 – 04:40 PM EST

Jun. 25 /CSRwire/ - Originally published by Inside Philanthropy One way to measure inequality in the country is through the digital divide. A Pew Research Center articlerevealed that even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption, the divide persists. Around 29 percent...

LA Galaxy Golf Tournament Raises More Than $215,000 for LA Galaxy Champion Project

Posted: Jun 24, 2019 – 03:24 PM EST

Jun. 24 /CSRwire/ - AEGs LA Galaxy recently raised more than $215,000 to benefit the clubs LA Galaxy Champion Project, which benefits elementary school students, during its annual LA Galaxy Golf Tournament presented by San Manuel Casino on June 10. The event was...

Don’t Just Do Good Things. Do the RIGHT Good Things.

Posted: Jun 24, 2019 – 12:19 PM EST

Jun. 24 /CSRwire/ - CyberGrants | Blog You see it: The need for corporate philanthropy is skyrocketing. Worthy, urgent causes appear literally overnight. And enterprises like yours are responding in a big way, generating positive impact for a host of beneficiaries via grantmaking,...

There’s No Place Like the Home Next Door

Posted: Jun 24, 2019 – 12:14 PM EST

Jun. 24 /CSRwire/ - Theres no place like the home next door In his teen years, Kenneth Martinez would often drive home after school, pull into his driveway, and see a familiar sight next door: His elderly neighbor, sitting in the shade of...

'America Can’t Afford Unaffordable Housing’

Posted: Jun 24, 2019 – 11:34 AM EST

Jun. 24 /CSRwire/ - 'America cant afford unaffordable housing Amid a round of recent news about the increasing problem of homelessness in America, Jon Campbell appeared before a standing room-only audience of affordable housing advocates to call for renewed efforts to address the...

Scotiabank's $3.1 Million Donation to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada Boosts Nationwide Mentorship Programs

Posted: Jun 21, 2019 – 12:47 PM EST

TORONTO, Jun. 21 /CSRwire/ - Youth mentorship has been given a tremendous boost thanks to a transformational $3.1 million donation by Scotiabank to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada. Hundreds of thousands of young people across Canada are growing up in vulnerable situations...