Philanthropy

REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. today announced it is donating $41 million in software and cash to NetHope and the Interagency Working Group on Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB). This grant is intended to enable efficient and rapid communication among nongov...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Many of the top names in Jewish music will be performing at the inaugural New Orleans International Jewish Music Festival this spring. The two-day gathering is a celebration of Jewish culture and rebuilding of the New Orleans Jewish community after ...

DEERFIELD, Ill. - Baxter International Inc. announced today the donation of more than 280,000 doses of the company's NeisVac-C vaccine, a meningococcal group C vaccine, to International Health Partners (IHP), a charitable organization dedicated to providing donated me...

CLEVELAND - With $2 million in construction financing from KeyBank, Perotti Development LLC is set once again to provide sophisticated urban living environments in the Larchmere Boulevard area.

The two-building, 13-unit project is set to open in late summ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2006--

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BOURNE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2006--iScienceProject, the leader in portable data logger technology for K-12 science education, today announced that it has made $500,000 worth of its HOBO(R) Data Loggers available to U.S. schools on a two-month, temporary-lo...

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2006--The Krewe of Barkus, the only Mardi Gras krewe in New Orleans by and for the canine population, has elected Amigo, the infamous face of the HSUS BeKind campaign, as the official King of Barkus 2006. An obvious choice for Po...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2006--The Larry King Cardiac Foundation (LKCF) proudly announces an underwriting donation from St.
Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) which will offer complete support of the Washington, DC fundraising gala, An Evening with Larry...

Alcoa Foundation has expressed interest in ensuring low-income families live in safe and healthy homes. That interest has prompted Alcoa Foundation into a partnership with Rebuilding Together, whose mission is to provide home rehabilitation services to low-income elde...

TORONTO, ON - Global Alumina Corporation (TSX: GLA.U) and the African Development Foundation (ADF), a public corporation of the Government of the United States of America, have entered into a five-year, strategic partnership to maximize the social and economic benefit...