Philanthropy

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2007--X PRIZE will launch a major fundraising campaign to support an expanded mission that will include a dozen new X PRIZEs to be announced in the next few years. A gala at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA, on March 3, will kic...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2007--Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute today launched the most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history and the largest ever hospital-based campaign in New England. Mission Possible: The Dana-Farber Campaign to Conquer Cancer seeks to...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (USA) / AMSTERDAM (The Netherlands) / LONDON (UK) - January 31, 2007 - A new report, launched the day before oil giant Shell announces its 2006 annual profits (on 1 February 2007) calls on Shell to use the profits to begin cleaning up damage it has caused ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - January 30, 2007 - Corporations who want to have more impact on their most important stakeholders now have a valuable new resource "“ Impakt Corporation. At Impakt, our mission is to help corpo...

SUNRISE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2007--Sunrise Sports & Entertainment and the Florida Panthers Foundation are looking forward to a grand night of entertainment for a worthwhile cause when the 2nd Annual Ice & Dice Casino Night presented by Publix comes to the...

PORTLAND, ME "“ January 30, 2007 - Today the Fund for Workplace Philanthropy, a charitable investment fund established by the National Alliance for Choice in Giving, announced a $40,000 grant to

Fresh Express, the No. 1 producer of value-added salads in North America and an industry leader in food safety, today announced that it will provide up to $2 million to fund rigorous and multidisciplinary research to help the fresh-cut produce industry prevent contamination ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- January 30, 2007 "“ Students at six New Orleans elementary schools will soon have new places to swing, slide and play, courtesy of Fannie Mae and the nonprofit organization KaBOOM!. On February 13, more than 1,500 volunteers will construct playgrounds at s...

CLEVELAND- January 30, 2007 "“ This year many individuals and families earning low-incomes in Cleveland will miss out on thousands of dollars in tax credits because they don’t know they qualify for them.

KeyBank and the Cleveland Housing Network...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2007--Build-A-Bear Workshop(R) turns ten years old in 2007 and plans to celebrate with a year-long series of charitable activities and events across the nation that will bring playgrounds, books and the friendship of a teddy bear to child...