Philanthropy

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2006--Demonstrating that America's inner cities are home to some of the most innovative and successful young entrepreneurs in the country, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and the Merrill Lynch Foundation today anno...

(Santa Monica, Calif.) - The Inspiration Film Festival (IFF) will kick off this year with the first public performance of "Peaceful Warrior," the new film based on Dan Millman's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel starring Nick Nolte, Scott Mechlowicz and Amy Smar...

HONG KONG - Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the leading US-based global non-profit business organisation focusing on corporate social responsibility, has agreed to jointly develop and promote an innovative and practicable start-up leadership training program...

PHOENIX, AZ - ethiquette.ca and alonovo.com have announced plans to deliver alonovo.com's integrated social values driven e-commerce portal to Canada.

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2006--AT&T Inc. and its philanthropic arm, the AT&T Foundation, announced today a sponsorship agreement with The University of Texas System to be named a Title Sponsor of Transforming Texas, a new public television ser...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2006--ExxonMobil announced today its donation of more than $30 million to 908 colleges and universities across the United States through ExxonMobil Foundation's 2005 Educational Matching Gift Program. ExxonMobil employees, ret...

AMHERST, Mass.--The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens will sponsor the third annual "A little Madness in the Spring" event in honor of National Poetry Month with a varied program of Dickinsonian revelry. Highlights include a reading by poet Mary...

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2006--Wescom Credit Union has launched Youth Month in April, a series of consumer education initiatives coinciding with "Financial Literacy Month." The Wescom events are focused on educating consumers and their children on ...

WILTON, CT- A student team from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., placed first in the 11th annual Deloitte National Student Case Study Seminar, a nationwide event in which teams of undergraduate accounting students compete to solve real-world case studies involving c...

BOSTON, Mass.--The Museum of Science, Boston announced today a $2 million gift from Genzyme Corporation (Nasdaq: GENZ) - the largest single corporate gift in the Museum's 175 years--that will create the Genzyme Biotechnology Education Initiative. The contribution fr...