Philanthropy

LOS ANGELES, CA - October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Fundraisers.com, the leading online resource for local community and cause related fundraising, has launched a wide variety of resources related to the fight against breast cancer. Fundraisers.com founder...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2005--

Statewide Program to Promote Service and Leadership Activities for High School Athletes Throughout Colorado Communities

Qwest Communications International,...

BOULDER, Colo. - Wild Oats Markets, a leading national natural and organic foods retailer, announced last week that it would be donating almost $235,000 to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Responding quickly to the news of the devas...

BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2005--Calvert, the nation's largest family of socially responsible mutual funds, announced today that it has drafted a set of guidelines to encourage companies helping to rebuild the Gulf region to operate in a fair and sustaina...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2005--Behind the Book, an innovative education program that seeks to bolster book reading and literacy skills among public school students in New York's economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, has been named the inaugural recipient...

PITTSBURGH - While the country is still reeling from the impact of two natural disasters, our communities face crises every day - fires, floods, blackouts. The question of "what can I do?" takes on many nuances - what can I do to help, to be better prepared to learn ...

Dallas, Texas - CHARITY magazine, a new publication uplifting, promoting and celebrating philanthropy in communities of color will be available later this year. The complementary website, www.CharityMagazine.us, launched to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Novogradac & Company LLP is hosting a Community Based Investing Conference in St. Louis, November 2-4, 2005, at the Renaissance Grand Hotel. The industry's leading professionals, including bank, insurance company and social investment founda...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2005--UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced the induction of 354 drivers into its "Circle of Honor," pushing to 3,956 the total of active elite drivers who have steered clear of accidents for 25 years or more.

Eighty-seven of tho...

CONCORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2005--Responding to the hurricane devastation experienced during the last two weeks in the Gulf of Mexico region, Pacer International, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACR), the North America logistics and freight transportation provider, said i...