Philanthropy

Kweisi Mfume, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Michael H. Dulan, Bank of America Community Development Banking president, today announced a five-year, $6 million initiative to help increase homeownership among tradition...

The SBC Foundation has awarded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, a $1 million technology grant in support of the organization’s Technology Capacity Building Initiative. The SBC Foun...

Sophia Opportunity School announced the opening of their Computer Centre, today. Hon'ble Chief Minister of Karnataka, Mr. S M Krishna, inaugurated the Centre, at a function organized by the School. Microsoft has provided aid towards the construction and setting up of the Cen...

Verizon Wireless gave a $100,000 grant to the American Library Association (ALA) at the ALA annual conference on Sunday, July 9 at McCormick Place Convention Center. Annette Jacobs, president of the Great Lakes Area of Verizon Wireless, presented the grant to Sarah Ann Long,...

From July 11-22, more than 1,000 Boys & Girls Club members will take part in Camp Old Navy, a job-shadow program hosted by more than 200 Old Navy stores across the U.S. and Canada. Club teens will learn about careers in apparel retail through a behind-the-scenes look at ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck & Co., Inc. and the Republic of Botswana today announced the establishment of the Botswana Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership, a new initiative to improve the overall state of HIV/AIDS care and treatment in Botswana. In coll...

Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE), the nation’s largest source of financing for home mortgages, today announced a $670,000 equity stock-purchase investment in New York National Bank, a minority-owned financial institution in the South Bronx. U.S. Representative Jose Serrano (D-NY), join...

Although Microsoft employees spend their days creating and refining technologies that improve people’s lives, it took their efforts in the Kosovo refugee crisis last year to remind them of just how profound technology’s impact can be.

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TAMPA, FLA., and JACKSONVILLE, FLA. - Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) today announced a grant to the PACE Center for Girls to fund an e-learning initiative that builds life-enhancing skills for girls at risk throughout Florida. The initiative utilizes sim...

Pfizer Inc today said its partnership with the South African Ministry of Health to provide Diflucan to treat cryptococcal meningitis in patients with HIV/AIDS is progressing expeditiously, and the program will begin treating patients in the Fall. Diflucan is designed to trea...