Philanthropy

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2006--HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HBC) today announced it has awarded more than $1 million in financial education grants to 12 not-for-profit organizations around the country, supporting personal finance, ho...

SPRINGFIELD, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2006--Country star Aaron Tippin brought down the house May 11, in Washington, D.C., at The SemperComm Foundation's 2006 Annual Gala and Silent Auction at the Mandarin Oriental hotel to help raise funds for the Foundation's ac...

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2006--First Command Educational Foundation has been accepted for inclusion in the 2006 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) National List, paving the way for receiving charitable gifts from employees of the federal government.

BOC has launched China's first ever socially responsible investment fund. The new Sustainable Growth Equity Fund is the first in China to apply socially responsible investment criteria, and an important milestone for socially responsible investment and sustainable dev...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2006--Employment at Dell's (NASDAQ:DELL) North Carolina manufacturing facility now exceeds 1,000 people, Dell Chairman Michael Dell said here today, surpassing the company's initial forecast of creating 750 jobs in its fir...

SUDBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2006--Jones and Bartlett Publishers (J&B) has announced a training grant valued in excess of $1,000,000. This training grant will be distributed exclusively through members of the North American Fire Training Directors (NAF...

SPRINGFIELD, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2006--Sounding every bit as patriotic as the size of the room, country singing star Aaron Tippin rang out his anthem, "Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly," for a large gathering of military supporters at the 2006 S...

Basel - Dr. Daniel Vasella, Chairman and CEO of Novartis, announced today that the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) will initiate research on malaria - estimated to annually kill more than one million people worldwide and one of the top three killer dis...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2006--America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network and Hormel Foods Corporation today announced the signing of a two-year partnership agreement to work together to combat hunger in the United States.

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2006--The Colorado Bar Association will be awarding Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) tonight with its "Donald W. Hoagland Award" -- an annual honor from the association recognizing outstanding leadership in the develo...