Philanthropy

Washington, DC - Thanks to a TechnoServe quality-improvement initiative, once-struggling farmers are seeing their coffee featured in the "Tanzania Kilimanjaro" brand being launched today by Peet's Coffee & Tea. This marks a milestone for the hard-working rural gr...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2005--A high quality, natural process Ethiopia Sidamo coffee is so rare it's practically extinct. Until today. Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX) introduces Shirkina Sun-Dried Sidamo coffee, the eighth coffee in its Black Apron Ex...

BADIN, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2005--School children, scholars and the public will learn more about North Carolina's earliest inhabitants, thanks to two gifts from Alcoa Inc. and the company's nonprofit foundation to the University of North Carolina at Chapel H...

MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2005--Answering the request of the Mississippi Department of Health, the American Dental Association (ADA) and Henry Schein Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the largest distributor of healthcare products and services to office-based prac...

PHOENIX - Thirty-two domestic violence shelters will share a $165,000 grant announced today by the Phelps Dodge Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Phoenix-based Phelps Dodge Corp.

The recent grants are the culmination of a t...

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WHAT: The te@ch emergency response program will provide up to $3
million in Best Buy gift cards to help any K-12 school with
enrolled students displaced by the recent hurricanes. Gift

WASHINGTON - Gary Perlin, Chief Financial Officer for Capital One Financial Services announced the company's three-year $1.25 million commitment to team up with Reading Is Fundamental® (RIF), the nation's oldest and largest children's and family literacy organization,...

New York, NY - Toyota (NYSE: TM) today announced additional support for victims of the Gulf Coast hurricanes. To date, 2005 hurricane relief pledges from Toyota and its 38,000 employees in North America exceed $7.5 million, including in-kind donations.
Toyota...

STRATHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2005--Timberland's Traveling Service Program Provides Positive Experience for Volunteers, Positive Impact for Communities.

According to a recent nationwide survey, over 60 percent of adul...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2005--As Hurricane Rita bears down on the U.S., Americans say that they have more trust in companies than in government to respond to disasters. The findings of a new nationwide poll show that the overwhelming majority of Americans e...