Donations to community initiatives with the intention of giving back for the greater common good.
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09-06-01
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 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
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 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
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
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 (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
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
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.
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07-31-01
In partnership with the National Urban League (NUL), Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE), the nation's largest source of financing for home mortgages, plans to purchase up to $50 million in mortgage financing from Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation (CMMC), the nation's number one mortga...