Philanthropy

CHESTNUT HILL, MA - Is your company's volunteer program a strategic investment? Is it structured to support employee and business interests as well as the community? This interactive seminar from The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College explores the key ...

NEW YORK - At its annual meeting on October 26, the Board of Directors of Mitsubishi International Corporation Foundation (MICF) approved $342,500 in new grants, including a grant of $250,000, payable over 4 years, to Forest Trends; $80,000, payable in two equal annua...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2005--Conservation International announces today that they jointly hosted a two-day multi-stakeholder workshop with the Mining Joint Venture of BHP Billiton Maatschappij Suriname and Alcoa. Participants at the workshop di...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill. - Abbott and the Abbott Fund have contributed more than $1.75 million in humanitarian aid to victims of the earthquake in India and Pakistan, and Hurricanes Stan and Wilma in Mexico and Central America. Abbott is providing funding support to inter...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Philippe Becker Design (PBD), a San Francisco branding and packaging agency, yesday announced that it was named by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce as a winner of a prestigious "Excellence in Business" (Ebbie) Award.

Herndon, VA.- NuRide, Inc. (www.nuride.com), the nation's first incentive-based ride network announced today that Waterbury, Vermont based Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, a leader in the specialty coffee industry, has ...

Cedarville, Ohio - From the flashy electronic data ticker to the live Bloomberg feed, students in Cedarville University's business program have a market-savvy new environment in which to explore finance. Named in honor of its sponsor, the KeyBank Trading Center offici...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2005--As part of a $1 million commitment in 2005 to improve local parks in the Puget Sound region, Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX) chairman Howard Schultz today identified three signature parks that will receive a $550,000 comm...

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 2005--HomeAid, the country's leading non-profit developer of transitional housing and Ameriquest Mortgage Company, along with its affiliates AMC Mortgage Services and Argent Mortgage, jointly announced today they will be th...

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