Philanthropy

For its longstanding commitment to the arts in the communities it serves, Bank of America will be recognized with the Founders Award as the Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. (BCA) and FORBES Magazine present the 2000 Business in the Arts Awards at The Art Institute of Ch...

Verizon will contribute $242,000 to 32 Northwest area schools and organizations serving the needs of adults, children and families as part of International Literacy Day tomorrow.

"Education, economic development and crime are key issues ...

Thanks to more than 600 GE Lighting
employee volunteers, the number of inner-city youngsters who will next summer
be able to attend Camp Mueller -- a 270-acre camp in Peninsula, Ohio -- will
more than quadruple.
In a highly-planned-and-prepared on...

Some 400 youngsters at an elementary school in the District will get additional help in improving their reading skills, thanks to a $90,000 grant from Verizon Foundation.

The grant to Everybody Wins!, a nonprofit organization that seeks ...

Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) today announces the fourth annual All Books for Children book drive and continues its support of literacy. Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman and chief global strategist, and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, chairman and ceo of Johnson Developm...

Microsoft Corp. today announced the donation of $7 million in software to nine national nonprofit organizations. Microsoft Technology Leadership Grants, awarded annually, provide nonprofits with software solutions that improve their ability to deliver services and help them ...

Freddie Mac today announced that Fulton and DeKalb Counties in Georgia have joined the "Don't Borrow Trouble" campaign being launched in Atlanta to alert local families about the dangers of predatory lending.

The "Don't Borrow Trouble" ca...

The Bank of America Foundation today announced a $10,000 donation to aid victims of the recent earthquake in Napa. The grant will be made to the Napa Chapter of the American Red Cross.

"We're eager to do what we can to assist in the reco...

Bank of America and Goodwill Industries International announced they are expanding their collaboration through a national partnership that will result in more work opportunities at the bank for Goodwill clients across the U.S.

Under the ...

Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America, Inc. has announced a $1 million gift to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, a national interactive learning center to be built in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Freedom Center will commemorate the nation's first human rights mov...