Philanthropy

Children's Day turned out to be the perfect time for 70 children with varying degrees of mental and physical challenges to spend the...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2006--Six families who have been staying at Ronald McDonald Houses(R) across the country will soon have their dreams come true, as winners of Select Comfort's "Dream for a Family" contest, held to celebrate the company's fifth anni...

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. & FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May
4, 2006--Company Launches Practical Disaster Recovery Preparation Guidelines, Training Programs and Dedicated Microsite to Aid Businesses and Ensure Continuous Availability of Applications and...

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - During the first week of May, employees at Bayer MaterialScience's South Charleston, W.Va., facility and Bayer CropScience's Institute, W.Va., plant will join with Habitat for Humanity of Kanawha & Putnam County for a good cause - raising...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May ...

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...