Philanthropy

Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced that its small business Internet division, PitneyWorks.com, is providing a special 1-cent discount off the new single-piece postage rate to ClickStamp® Online Internet postage customers. The offer is good for up to 5,000 pieces of...

Nike, Portland State University, Portland General Electric, and the Oregon Natural Step Network will kick off the second installment of The Millennium Speaker Series: Perspectives on Change on Wednesday, Dec. 6th with farmer, environmentalist and humorist Joel Salatin. The l...

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Boys & Girls Clubs of America President Roxanne Spillett will be joined today by First Lady and Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton as they announce the Club Tech initiative, a joint pro...

ISLANDIA, N.Y., December 3, 2004 - Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) today announced the establishment of its Worldwide Law Department Pro Bono Program to provide legal services to non-profit organizations and low-income community members, most of whom are o...

Freddie Mac and the Atlanta branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) today announced a $20 million initiative to expand affordable homeownership opportunities for low to moderate income families, minorities, and other historically unde...

"All Talk and All Action" is the philosophy behind the new Nike Youth Action program. As the signature program from the Nike Foundation, this initiative will promote leadership and activism by providing today's youth, ages 12-18, with a public forum to address community issu...

U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Alderman Billy Ocasio (26th Ward) today joined community leaders, local realtors, housing advocates, and representatives from Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE), the nation’s largest source of financing for home mortgages, to celebrate the op...

New York City senior citizens who are victims of predatory lending practices can seek relief from unreasonably high interest rates through a new $5 million initiative announced today by The Parodneck Foundation for Self-Help Housing and Community Development, South Brooklyn ...

Freddie Mac, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, founder of the national NeighborWorks® network of community-based nonprofit organizations, today kicked off a multi-million-dollar lending initiative to offer financing alternatives to fam...

Shanna Patterson may not ride Busch Garden's newest roller coaster when she visits Tampa this week, but that's all right. The 20-year-old Michigan woman has had her share of ups and downs, starting in 1994 when her family doctor uncovered some disturbing news. Shanna had a l...