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08-27-10
HOJO and Harlem Globetrotters Send Tampa Kids Back to School with $15,000
/PRNewswire/ - Happiness and smiles were abundant today as 85 homeless students from the Tampa area received a private visit from the Harlem Globetrotters and $15,000 -- the grand prize in the Howard Johnson (HOJO) hotel brand's The Give Happy Challenge, a national competiti...
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08-20-10
Deloitte Foundation Renews $500,000 Commitment to Continuing Education for Accounting Professors
The Deloitte Foundation, the non-profit arm of leading professional services firm Deloitte LLP, has announced a $500,000 renewed commitment to the American Accounting Association (AAA) Robert M. Trueblood Seminars for Professors (Trueblood Seminars). Held annually, the Trueb...
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08-19-10
Target Revitalizes 32 School Libraries This Fall
/PRNewswire/ - As part of an ongoing commitment to early childhood reading with a specific focus on K"“3, this fall, Target and The Heart of America Foundation® ...
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08-18-10
Students Profile MBA Programs' Efforts to Prepare Responsible Leaders
Released today, Net Impact's 2010 Business as UNusual: The Student Guide to Graduate Programs provides the most comprehensive collection of graduate programs' efforts to prepare students to use their careers to improve the world.
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08-18-10
DemandTec Introduces Netezza as Grand Championship Sponsor for Fifth Annual DemandTec Retail Challenge Scholarship Competition
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - DemandTec, Inc. (Nasdaq: DMAN), a global leading provider of predictive merchandising, marketing, trade, and shopper analytics solutions for the retail value chain, today announced that Netezza (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse, analyti...
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08-17-10
National Grid Launches "Engineering Pipeline Program" to Develop Tomorrow's Workforce of Engineers
National Grid is helping high school students from New York and New England take an important step to becoming engineers with the launch of its "Engineering Pipeline Program," the ce...
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08-09-10
Reprints Desk Commits to Help Establish Libraries Worldwide in Support of Literacy and Gender Equality in Education
/PRNewswire/ - Reprints Desk, Inc., today announced the launch of the company's first social responsibility program in which Reprints Desk will contribute a portion of every transaction - s...
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08-03-10
Huntington Bank Partners With Big Lots and Donates Backpacks to 30,000 Schoolchildren in Need
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Huntington Bank (Nasdaq: HBAN; www.huntington.com) today announced it is donating 30,000 backpacks to support schoolchildren in need, just in time for the back-to-school season. The donation, ...
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07-29-10
Virtusa supports One Laptop per Child Program
Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global IT services company that offers a broad spectrum of business consulting and outsourcing services, has initiated a novel pilot program towards supporting the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, a UN endorsed Open Source project. T...
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07-29-10
CORE K12 Releases Seedplay(R), a Social Utility Designed to Transform Education for the iGeneration
/PRNewswire/ - CORE K12, an international education company dedicated to providing useful, practical technology solutions to K-12 educators, announced today the release of Seedplay. In the face of unprecedented economic challenges, Seedplay provides educators with a low-cost...
