Philanthropy

DALLAS - Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) announced today it is contributing $100,000 to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to assist in meeting the urgent needs of tsunami victims in South Asia. In addition to this contribution, the company also is do...

ABBOTT PARK, IL - Dec. 29, 2004 − Abbott has committed $4 million in funding and healthcare product donations to the victims of the natural disasters in Southeast Asia and the eastern coast of Africa.

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BOSTON - Oxfam has sent 60 1,000-liter water tanks to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, one of the worst-affected areas, where clean water is urgently needed after floodwaters contaminated local wells. The agency is also preparing 25,000 food packs to help feed families who hav...

LONDON - Businesses across the UK are being invited to enter the Business in the Community's Awards for Excellence 2005, in association with the Financial Times, sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry, supported by Marks & Spencer, Company of the Year 2...

Portland, Maine - Leaders of local and national workplace giving campaigns will convene in Las Vegas next month for a conference aimed at increasing choice for American workers who "give at the office" in what has become a charitable marketplace worth over $4 billion....

WASHINGTON, DC - The Omni Shoreham Hotel in Woodley Park will be the site of the first annual VolunTourism Forum. It is a collaborative effort of The George Washington University's International Institute of Tourism Studies, Travel Learning Connections' Educational T...

SEATTLE - As the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People draws to a close on December 23, Starbucks has allocated $200,000 to CARE, the international humanitarian and development organization, to fund a two-year pilot program to help improve the quality ...

WASHINGTON - As Americans contemplate their holiday and year-end giving to charity this month, more donors than ever before will be connecting with charities online. While traditional offline giving to charities by individual Americans held steady last year, giving o...

PITTSBURGH - Alcoa Foundation announced today that it has invested nearly $250,000 in three programs to improve educational and family planning services in Guinea, West Africa. This most recent investment brings total charitable investments in the country to approxima...

DELRAY BEACH, FL - Office Depot, Inc., (NYSE:ODP), one of the world's leading resellers of office products and services, is proud to announce that the company has been honored with the United States Chamber of Commerce's Corporate Stewardship Award for Large Companies...