Philanthropy

ELMWOOD PARK, NJ - As local food banks, food rescue organizations, pantries and soup kitchens work frantically to meet a growing demand for services, Marcal Paper Mills, Inc. in Elmwood Park, New Jersey, has launched a new partnership program, joining Marcal consumers...

BOSTON, MA - State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), the world's leading specialist in meeting the needs of sophisticated global investors, announced today that its Global Philanthropy Program made 269 grants totaling over $3.2 million during the fourth quarter of 2002. ...

SAN ANTONIO, TX - The SBC Foundation today announced that the NPower Network is its 2003 SBC Excelerator national grant recipient. NPower, a nonprofit organization that provides technology support services to other nonprofits, will use its $500,000 SBC Excelerator gr...

SPOKANE, WA - In celebration of the completion of 22 hotel conversions to the Red Lion flag today, increasing the number of hotels by 53% to 63, the largest in the brand's history, Red Lion Hotels, in an industry first, is offering guests who put in a day of work with...

Barloworld, the international industrial brand management company based in Johannesburg, has agreed to provide long-term corporate support for establishing the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) in South Africa, including hosting the official launch event in July of ...

FORT WORTH, TX - The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation awarded 130 grants totaling more than $1 million to non-profit organizations in the state of Texas in 2002. These grants support non-profit programs ranging from youth activities to public safety, human deve...

Newark, NJ – A coalition of more than 120 New Jersey-based education stakeholder organizations today released the results of a survey entitled Building Strong Bridges—A Report on Public Engagement in New Jersey Education. The research report, commissioned by New Jers...

NEW YORK, NY - The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), the nation's leading organization supporting Hispanic higher education, announced today the opening of the HSF Northeast Regional Office. In line with its goal to double the rate of Hispanics earning a college degre...

Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation today announced combined community investment highlights for 2002, which included $34.7 million in combined giving in Alcoa communities worldwide. Other highlights included a global celebration to kick-off the Foundation's 50th anniversary,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -The nation's oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native advocacy organization in the United States, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), today announced it had received a $25,000 contribution from Nike to ...