Philanthropy

NEW YORK, NY - January 29, 2007 - A national poll of youth taken recently by USA Today and the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) found 60 percent feel they are facing tougher financial pressures than young people did in previous generations. The 2007 Hip-Hop ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 29, 2007 - A project designed to provide support for victims of the 2005 hurricanes received a major boost today, as Northrop Grumman contributed $275,000 to support the effort.

The project is a collaboration of the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 29, 2007 "“ Grameen Foundation today announced the appointment of Diane M. Smith as director of its Capital Markets Group.

Grameen Foundation’s Capital Markets Group sources new financing opportunities for poverty-fo...

London and Washington D.C. --January 29, 2007-- Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., a leading roaster and distributor of specialty coffees, has signed a Letter of Intent with the Government of Ethiopia that signifies a commitment to work with Ethiopian fine coffee stakehol...

CHESTNUT HILL, MA - January 29, 2007 "“ A new magazine, The Corporate Citizen, has been published by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, a research center at the Carroll School of Management, to provide business leaders, policymakers, academics and ot...

January 26, 2007- Imperial Oil is pleased to announce the company, in partnership with its employees and retirees, contributed close to $3 million to the 2006 United Way-Centraide campaigns across Canada.

"Our employees and retirees have once a...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2007--On Feb. 1, hundreds of Los Angeles-area public school students will watch as eight-time GRAMMY(R) winner Natalie Cole and breakout singer-songwriter Josh Kelley become the final two signatures on the Hilton Harmony Piano...

Alexandria, VA --January 25, 2007-- Global Impact announced today that it will present its highest honor, the Global Citizen award, to Microsoft Corporation for its generous support of philanthropy worldwide. Renée S. Acosta, President & CEO of Global Impact, will presen...

PITTSBURGH-- January 25, 2007 -- Calling all local ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th graders who want to help save the environment and make a film about it! Bayer Corporation, Carnegie Science Center’s SciTech Spectacular and Pittsburgh Filmmakers encourage them to grab a camera, ...

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2007--Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) has awarded its annual Xerox Technical Minority Scholarships to 122 graduate and undergraduate students from across the country to recognize their high academic achievement in the fields of scienc...