Philanthropy

PROVIDENCE, RI, - Nortek Holdings, Inc., a leading international designer, manufacturer and marketer of building products, today announced it would donate $50,000 to assist the families of those who lost loved ones in Thursday night's devastating nightclub fire in We...

Newark, NJ – PSEG today announced that in honor of its 100th anniversary the PSEG Foundation was making two Century of Caring $100,000 grants and funding the building of a Habitat for Humanity house in the company’s hometown of Newark.

NEW YORK, NY – Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) has named Kathleen Walas, President of the Avon Foundation, to the additional and newly created position of Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, effective immediately. She will report to Andrea Jung, Avon’s chairman and chi...

TechnoServe President and CEO Peter A. Reiling announced today that James Carman has been appointed TechnoServe's Country Director for Kenya. Mr. Carman has more than 20 years of experience as an international business manager with proven success in agriculture, food ...

Geneva, Switzerland, - The World Economic Forum today announced the official launch of The Global Information Technology Report 2002-2003: Readiness for the Networked World (GITR), the most comprehensive, cross-country assessment of the state of information technology...

Detroit, MI - The Nonprofit Facilities Center reported on its first year of service at its Feb. 18 annual meeting. The Nonprofit Facilities Center, a partnership of United Way Community Services and the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) in New York City, helps metro Detro...

CHICAGO, IL - The McCormick Tribune Foundation, one of the nation's largest charitable foundations, today announced that its board of directors has approved grants of almost $5.7 million to 47 charitable agencies, programs and organizations nationwide. Of that figure...

CHICAGO, IL - Zkid Network Company (OTCBB:ZKID) and Boerner Inc., official licensees of the National Crime Prevention Council, have joined forces to co-market the McGruff(R) Safe Kids Identification Kit, the leading (with more than ten million kits distributed), most...

PROVIDENCE, RI - This Presidents' Day weekend, more than 100,000 college and university students across the country joined to launch the Raise Your Voice campaign, a multi-year national effort to increase student involvement in public life. The campaign is a student...

YORK, PA - The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), which is the first and largest national organization dedicated solely to funding clinical and genetic research at outstanding medical centers across the country, received $58,000 from the sales of exclusive mer...