Philanthropy

LAKEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2006--Video Professor, a national computer education company, today launched the Video Professor Tillie Foundation, a non-profit foundation educating youths about safe driving practices. The foundation started its engines at t...

Buffalo Grove, IL - The International Profit Associates (IPA-IBA) charities group, IPA Charities, has donated $300,000 to many local and national charities in the quest to improve communities and the world.

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Washington, DC - Business Roundtable has named Bob Nardelli, Chairman, President & CEO of The Home Depot, Inc., as Chairman of its Partnership for Disaster Response Task Force, a group of chief executive officers of Business Roundtable member companies who will wo...

NEW YORK - TIAA-CREF, the financial services organization and leading provider of retirement plans in the academic, medical and cultural fields, has formed a new Social and Community Investing Department within its Asset Management area.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2006--The Polo Ralph Lauren foundation through its G.I.V.E. campaign(Get Involved. Volunteer. Exceed.) today announced the donation of eco-friendly UltraTouch "denim" insulation to be used in the rehabilitation of an historic 19th ce...

PITTSBURGH - Broadening access to its award-winning, national science education and science literacy program locally from Allegheny County students and teachers to all Pittsburgh-area residents and non-residents who travel by air, Bayer Corporation today unveiled two ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Charles Schwab Corporation is celebrating its third annual employee volunteer day today, during which Schwab employees and executive sponsors at the company's major centers of employment throughout the U.S. will spend a portion of the day doing cha...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2006--The nonprofit research group Social Compact announced the winners of the organization's 2006 Visionary Awards today at a gala event attended by policy, corporate, and community leaders. The Citigroup Foundation presented a gr...

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2006--HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HBC) today announced it has awarded more than $1 million in financial education grants to 12 not-for-profit organizations around the country, supporting personal finance, ho...

SPRINGFIELD, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2006--Country star Aaron Tippin brought down the house May 11, in Washington, D.C., at The SemperComm Foundation's 2006 Annual Gala and Silent Auction at the Mandarin Oriental hotel to help raise funds for the Foundation's ac...