Philanthropy
Donations to community initiatives with the intention of giving back for the greater common good.
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09-30-08
Global Reading Campaign Reaches Soldiers and Their Families at Home and Abroad
NEW YORK Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- -- United Through Reading(R) and the USO today announced partnerships with the Pearson Foundation -- the Sponsor and Founding Partner of Jumpstart's Read for the Record Campaign(R) -- to expand the reach of this year's Campaign to ...
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09-29-08
IBM Employee Charitable Giving Begins in Olympic Style
RALEIGH, NC -- (MARKET WIRE) - September 29, 2008 - At IBM's (NYSE: IBM) largest employee site in the United States, Olympic Gold Medalist Cullen Jones hopes to begin another gold-winning relay team with employees as the company begins its nationwide annual Employee Charita...
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09-29-08
Barclays Dedicates New Sports Fields to East Side Charter School Students
WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- To enrich the lives of Wilmington residents and students, Barclays today dedicated two new playgrounds, a football field, baseball diamond and three basketball courts to East Side Charter School as part of the Barclays Spaces for Sp...
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09-29-08
Bonita Donates Digital Mammography Unit To Gibraltar Health Authority
GIBRALTAR. - September 29, 2008 - Gibraltar-based Bonita Trust today announced a large donation to the Gibraltar Health Authority to purchase a new Direct Digital Mammography Unit which will allow the department to achieve high-resolution digital images and therefore ...
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09-26-08
President Clinton Highlights Hesperian's Commitment to Improve the Lives of Three Million People
NEW YORK and BERKELEY, CA -- Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative's (CGI) New York summit, President Clinton highlighted Hesperian's commitment to empower communities in overcoming the death and disease that a lack of safe drinking water and...
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09-26-08
Former President Clinton Announces World Bank, Nike Foundation, Denmark and Liberia CGI Commitment to Unleash Economic Opportunity for Adolescent Girls in Liberia
NEW YORK, NY. - September 26, 2008 - As the first Commitment featured at the Opening Plenary of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting Wednesday, Former President William Clinton announced the Adolescent Girls Initiative, an innovative public-private partnership betwee...
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09-25-08
Marathon and Partners Announce $28 Million, 5-Year Extension of Life Saving Malaria Control Project in Equatorial Guinea
HOUSTON, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) announced today that the Government of Equatorial Guinea, Marathon, Noble Energy (NYSE: NBL), GEPetrol and SONAGAS, are extending their successful Bioko Island Malaria Control Project (BIMCP) in...
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09-25-08
P&G Announces Three Commitments for 2008 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
CINCINNATI, Sept. 25, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) announced a multi-million dollar program to save and change the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and mothers across the globe. At the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual...
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09-24-08
Ernst & Young and Kiva.org to Work Together to Increase Transparency of Micro-Loans to Entrepreneurs in the Developing World
NEW YORK, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, has received a donation of in-kind resources from Ernst & Young, the global professional services organization. As part of its commitment to entrepreneurship and corpor...
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09-24-08
1-800-PACK-RAT Helps Families, Businesses Recover from Hurricane Ike
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- 1-800-PACK-RAT, a service leader in portable storage and moving solutions, is working around the clock to respond to individuals and businesses affected by Hurricane Ike. 1-800-PACK-RAT has reallocated resources from several of its locati...
