Donations to community initiatives with the intention of giving back for the greater common good.
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04-24-01
TULSA, Okla. – Williams’ (NYSE:WMB) gas pipeline unit was honored today with the Southern Gas Association’s Community Service Award for 2001 at the association’s annual Management Conference in Charleston, S.C. The award is given to the SGA member company with the most outs...
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04-19-01
The Freddie Mac Foundation announced a $1 million grant to help expand Youth for Tomorrow (YFT), a successful residential program for at-risk teenage boys founded by former Washington Redskins Head Coach Joe Gibbs in 1986. The announcement came during the Burgundy and Gold D...
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04-18-01
During a reception held recently by Drug Store News in honor of a cover story on Albertson's (NYSE: ABS - news), a donation of $10,000 was made on behalf of Albertson's to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance. In addition, during the month of March Albertson's Dr...
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04-16-01
The John Deere Foundation of Deere & Company today announced a gift of $100,000 to help construct the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa. The capital campaign for the museum, to be built in Cedar Rapids, has now raised more than $2.12 million ...
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04-12-01
Questia Media, Inc., today announces its $3.5 million Champion Award Program. In recognition of the academic and athletic excellence of the four schools that made it to the NCAA Final Four men's basketball championship, all students and faculty at Duke University, Michigan ...
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04-09-01
Baskin-Robbins today announced plans to scoop up summer fun during "Free Scoop Night," on Wednesday, May 2nd from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. More than 200 scoops per second will be given out, as an expected three million consumers stop by participating Baskin-Robbins ice cream store...
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03-27-01
Representatives of Ashland Inc (NYSE:ASH) and The Ashland Inc. Foundation announced a contribution of $5,000 today to Junior Achievement of Greater Cincinnati (J. A.), earmarking the contribution to support economic education courses at Sixth District Elementary School in Co...
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03-15-01
The National Association for Music Education today honored Texaco Foundation with the "Partnership of Professionals" award at its annual Fund for the Advancement of Music Education (FAME) dinner in the Sam Rayburn House Office Building.
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03-15-01
Angelo Mozilo, chairman and chief executive officer of Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., a national leader in residential finance, announced the company's One Hundred Billion Dollar Challenge, a new $100 billion commitment to increasing homeownership among low income and minorit...
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03-15-01
The Bank of America Foundation today announced $10 million in grants to United Way of America in support of Success By 6® initiatives across the country. The grants, which are the third phase of a $50 million commitment, are the largest the Foundation has made and one of the...