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    Bank of America and Goodwill Industries Expand Collaboration; Program Provides Jobs for Welfare Recipients Image

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    08-31-00

    Bank of America and Goodwill Industries Expand Collaboration; Program Provides Jobs for Welfare Recipients

    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 Donates $1 Million to National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Image

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    08-30-00

    Toyota Donates $1 Million to National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

    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...

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    08-29-00

    Rockwell Gift Will Create Industrial Control, Automation Lab for Texas A&M

    A new Texas A&M University automation laboratory supported by Rockwell will help students significantly reduce the gap between graduation and on-the-job productivity.
    A Rockwell gift of $955,900 in cash and equipment, to be paid over the next five years, was presen...

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    08-29-00

    First Union and Partners Launch eCommunitiesFirst Alliance TO Close the Digital Divide

    First Union Corporation and its community partners today officially launched an initiative to help at-risk individuals in Charlotte gain the skills needed to compete in today's technology-driven marketplace.

    First Union developed this in...

    Quacking Duck Raises Big Bucks for AFLAC Cancer Center; Web Sales of the Stuffed Ducks Total More Than $75,000 Image

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    08-29-00

    Quacking Duck Raises Big Bucks for AFLAC Cancer Center; Web Sales of the Stuffed Ducks Total More Than $75,000

    AFLAC's newest advertising campaign, featuring the famous AFLAC duck, has been an overwhelming success. The commercials have increased sales and name recognition for the supplemental insurer. But AFLAC's campaign has benefited more than the company's bottom line. When AFLAC ...

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    08-28-00

    National Semiconductor Establishes Charitable Foundation

    National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:NSM) has established a charitable foundation to provide grants to benefit K-12 education, university programs and critical needs in communities where the company has a major presence.

    National, whi...

    A World of Change: Microsoft, Youth Foundations Offer 4,000 Polish Children First Experience with Computers and the Internet Image

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    08-28-00

    A World of Change: Microsoft, Youth Foundations Offer 4,000 Polish Children First Experience with Computers and the Internet

    When children in seven schools in rural Poland return to their classrooms in September, they will experience something many never dreamed possible: access to a computer.

    In Korsze and Barciany—two disadvantaged communities in northern Pol...

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    08-26-00

    National Semiconductor Presents Resource Area for Teachers (RAFT) with $150,000 Donation

    National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) reaffirmed its longstanding support for education by presenting a $100,000 cash donation to Resource Area For Teachers (RAFT), a San Jose-based nonprofit organization that collects and distributes surplus items from hundreds of ...

    ExxonMobil and Teach the Children Pump Students Up for Education in Detroit Image

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    08-24-00

    ExxonMobil and Teach the Children Pump Students Up for Education in Detroit

    Exxon Mobil Corporation is helping to prepare more than 2,000 Detroit area students for the start of the new school year through its support of Teach the Children. The Teach the Children program provides elementary school students in communities across the country with book ...

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    08-23-00

    Delegates Donate More Than 1,000 Books to Sallie Mae's 'Campaign for Literacy' At Democratic National Convention

    Sallie Mae (NYSE: SLM) today
    announced that delegates participating in its "Campaign for Literacy" during
    the Democratic National Convention donated more than 1,000 children's books to
    benefit literacy programs in Los Angeles.
    The books will be us...

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