Philanthropy

TORRANCE, CA - In the spirit of Father's Day and educational development, Ulead Systems, Inc., a leading developer of video editing, image editing, 3D animation and DVD creation software, is offering a special promotion on its retail digital media software. For any pu...

NEW YORK, NY -- The Catalog for Giving is hosting its 8th Annual Urban Heroes Awards Benefit on Monday, June 2, 2003 at 6 PM at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers.

The Benefit honors 10 "Urban Heroes", inner city youth who, through their t...

BOSTON, MA - On June 5, 2003, National Hunger Awareness Day, community leaders will be touting 100,000 little reasons to fight hunger in eastern Massachusetts. The Greater Boston Food Bank, the largest non-profit food distribution organization in New England, is using...

SINGAPORE - Samsung Electronics today announced the launch of its single-largest social program outside Korea -- "Samsung DigitAll Hope" which will donate US$600,000 to organizations supporting the use of technology to improve the lives of youth and helping to bridge ...

LONDON - Companies are not normally shy when it comes to telling the world how well they are doing. So why are Britain’s biggest companies so coy when it comes to talking about their record on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Youth Service America (YSA) announces today that beginning in June, Nike will recognize top-performing youth ambassadors in YSA's SERVEnet program with donated Nike performance products. The SERVEnet program is comprised of more than 1,000 youth a...

LONDON - David Gilmour of Pink Floyd has today given support to a project to develop a new kind of mixed community for homeless people and key workers. The Crisis urban village is set to house 400 residents and is underway thanks to a £3.6 million donation by Gilmour...

NEW YORK, NY - Burson-Marsteller today named Bennett Freeman as Managing Director for Corporate Responsibility in the firm's U.S. Corporate and Financial Practice. Based in Washington, D.C., Mr. Freeman will lead the fast-growing specialty area that advises the firm'...

Nokia, the International Youth Foundation (IYF), Pearson and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launch Bridgeit — an innovative program that uses mobile technology to bring interactive, multimedia learning materials to local classrooms around the wo...

CHICAGO,IL - The first nationwide Hispanic venture-capital fund has opened its doors for business, evolving from a 2000 alliance of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Bank One Corporation (NYSE: ONE). Hispania Capital Partners is actively se...