Philanthropy
Donations to community initiatives with the intention of giving back for the greater common good.
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09-06-01
US Airways to Sponsor National Book Festival
US Airways announced today that it is joining with First Lady Laura Bush and the Library of Congress to support the importance of reading through the first National Book Festival.
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09-06-01
PMI Announces $7,000 Donation to Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement
PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. today announced that it had made a $7,000 donation to the Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement (PCCA). The donation is intended to support PCCA's work of providing comprehensive housing counseling, case management and technical
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09-04-01
The Business Schools at UC Berkeley and Columbia University Join Forces with The Goldman Sachs Foundation to Create The National Social Venture Competition
The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia Business School announced today, September 4, 2001, a joint partnership with The Goldman Sachs Foundation to create the National Social Venture Competition. The competition invites aspiring ...
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08-29-01
Charter One Bank Wins National Housing Award
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati (FHLBank) presented Charter One Financial, Inc. (NYSE: CF) today with the FHLBank System's 2001 Community Partnership Award for affordable housing and community development achievement. The presentation was made to Charter One's presi...
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08-29-01
RadioShack Collects 133,000 Used Wireless Phones to Help Domestic Violence Victims
RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) announced today that its stores collected 133,000 wireless phones in three months as a national collection site for the Wireless Foundation’s Donate a Phone program. To date, this is the single largest contribution of handsets to the progra...
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08-29-01
SS&C Technologies Commits $125,000 to UConn School of Business
As the University of Connecticut School of Business begins classes in its new state-of-the-art research and learning facility, SS&C Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) has been named a Leadership Donor in the school's effort to raise the final $4.5 million needed to comple...
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08-24-01
Video Game Industry Helps Bring Blind and Sighted Together
GameSpy Industries, the industry leader in online entertainment and multiplayer technology, has donated more than $50,000 of its online community software in order to help Zform's goal of developing online games that bring the blind and sighted together.
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08-14-01
Fannie Mae Announces Mortgage Relief for Flood Victims in West Virginia
Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE), the nation's largest source of financing for home mortgages, has mortgage relief provisions in place for counties across West Virginia where borrowers are facing hardships as a result of widespread damage caused by the recent floods.
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08-13-01
Four Mexican Universities Benefit from $283 Million CAD/CAM/CAE System Donation
Mexican President Vincente Fox was among the top dignitaries and industry executives gathered today at the GM de Mexico headquarters in Mexico City to celebrate the over $283 million donation of CAD/CAM/CAE equipment to four Mexican universities by General Motors Corp., UGS,...
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08-01-01
Verizon Gift Helps D.C. Habitat for Humanity Narrow Digital Divide
Eight homes in the District of Columbia will be the first Habitat for Humanity houses in the country with the capability for high-speed home networking thanks to a donation from Verizon Connected Solutions, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications.
