Philanthropy

Arlington, VA. - Inside Washington Publishers announces today the launch of Inside Green Business, an innovative news service from the publishers of the Inside EPA family of environmental news services. Inside Green Business provides exclusive news and analysis on ind...

Washington, D.C.-- Vikram Akula, founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance, a Grameen Foundation microfinance partner in India, is one of Time Magazine's top 100 "People Who Shape Our World" for 2006. The annual list which heralds men and women around the world who have ma...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2006--As part of its ongoing efforts to give back the communities in which its employees work and live, Best Buy has announced the recipients of its 2006 scholarship program. A total of 1,520 graduating high school seniors across t...

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Phuket - The Asia Foundation's longest running program, Books for Asia, has donated over 80,000 English-language volumes to hundreds of Thai schools in communities affected by the tsunami. This collection of mostly primary and secondary level books and education mater...

(SAN FRANCISCO) - VolunteerMatch and MATHCOUNTS have teamed up to recruit volunteers to help support the educational efforts of the more than 500,000 students exposed to MATHCOUNTS materials and activities in their schools each year. Annually, more than 40,000 student...

WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to inspire others to contribute, an anonymous Mississippi donor has pledged $500,000 to support Operation Playground: Rebuilding Playgrounds, Restoring Childhoods, a new two-year initiative of the nonprofit organization KaBOOM! to...

Washington, DC - Four top American CEOs have launched the Central America and Mexico Hurricane Relief Fund (www.HurricaneAction.org), a nationwide private sector led, White House supported partnership to encourage private donations for reconstruction in Central Americ...

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2006--The David Toms Foundation and The Humana Foundation are joining forces to support four New Orleans-based children's charities with grants totaling $400,000. Reconcile New Orleans, Kingsley House, Desire Street Academy and ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2006--Reichmann Petroleum Corp, a privately held independent Oil and Gas Operator based in Grapevine, TX, recognizes that their success would not be possible without one key constituent -- the landowners in the communities...