Philanthropy

Disney Worldwide Outreach's "Season of Compassion," the annual delivery of fun filled care packages to every children's hospital and pediatric wing across the country, was kicked off today by Mickey Mouse who helped to deliver a care package and helped to throw a spec...

DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2006--U.S. marketing budgets are projected to increase by 13 percent in 2006 according to a recent MediaPost.com article. With big companies contributing to this trend, small- to medium-sized companies are forced to get crea...

ATLANTA,-- The Coca-Cola Company today confirmed its support for the United Nations Global Compact, publicly expressing the Company's serious commitment to taking a corporate leadership role in the focus areas of the Global Compact: human rights, labor rights, protec...

Imperial Oil Limited is pleased to announce the company, in partnership with its employees and retirees, contributed more than $3.0 million to the 2005 United Way-Centraide campaigns across Canada. The total contribution increased by $365,600 from $2.65 million in 200...

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2006--Safeway Inc. (NYSE:SWY) applauds new legislation signed into law today by President Bush to curtail the rising abuse of methamphetamine "meth" by establishing uniform standards for the sale of cough and cold products...

VANCOUVER -- A children's hospice in Vancouver, a fresh food distribution program for Toronto's hungry, a Calgary-based global humanitarian organization providing lighting technology to remote, rural and often impoverished villages... these organizations: Canuck Place...

PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2006-- Lenovo, the computing equipment sponsor of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, today announced that it is donating ThinkPad notebooks to "Right To Play," an athlete-driven international humanitarian organization that uses ...

Woonsocket, Rhode Island - The CVS/pharmacy Charitable Trust, the private foundation managed by CVS Corporation, announced today that it has awarded more than one million dollars in grant funds to 31 non-profit organizations across the United States.

WHAT: Working Conference---Beyond Cold Cash: Unlocking the Value of Corporate America's Role in Disaster Response. The private sector played an unprecedented role in responding to the rash of natural disasters in 2005. The Business Roundtable's Partnershi...

NAPERVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2006--Nicor today announced the company and its employees contributed more than $1.7 million in 2005 to philanthropic efforts throughout northern Illinois. The company and its employees joined with community members to donat...