Philanthropy

CHICAGO - In recognition of its leadership, hospital and community partnerships and its high quality primary health care services, Venice Family Clinic of Venice, Calif. has won the 2005 Foster G. McGaw Prize for excellence in community service--one of the health care...

Austin, TX - In an effort to reach new subscribers, Sustainable Log, a free newsletter for socially responsible investors, has offered to donate up to $1 to Alternative Gifts International (AGI) for each new subscriber sign-up, up to 10,000. Readers can elect to earm...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2006--Spirit of America's BlogSafer wiki hosts a series of targeted guides to anonymous blogging, each of which outline steps a blogger in a repressive regime can take, and tools to use, to avoid identification and arrest. These ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2006--Shallom Berkman, co-founder of Santa Monica's award-winning organic coffee and tea emporium Urth Caffe, recently presented the first package of Ugandan Mountain Gorilla Coffee to Misti Kerns, president and CEO of S...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2006--The Medtronic Foundation today announced its founding sponsorship of Parent Heart Watch, a first-of-its-kind national network of families who have lost children to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) - the sudden, abrupt loss of he...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2006--Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL):

The Dell TechKnow program -- an initiative to help underserved students across the United States become more competitive in a global economy -- has graduated more t...

Colorado Springs, Colo. - As part of the $1 million "Excellence through Ethics" initiative to promote ethics education among young people, JA Worldwide (Junior Achievement) and Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte) announced the launch of their second annual ethics...

Today AIDE announced the release of CauseAIDE (www.causeaide.com). CauseAIDE is a hosted email marketing service that engages members of the public as advocates for the causes they support. CauseAIDE accomplish...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2006--(NYSE:BAY) At a White House ceremony today, Bayer Corporation received the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership for its Making Science Make Sense(R) program, a company-wide initiative that advances science literacy across...

StartingBloc® today announced the recipients of its 2006 Fellowship awards to 240 forwardthinking college students. Fellows will gain real world experience and training to become business and social leaders with the ability to create value for both shareholders and so...