Philanthropy

The SBC Foundation has announced a three-year, $100,000 commitment to support the Morton Bahr Distance Learning Scholars Endowment for study through Empire State College’s Center for Distance Learning. The grant will expand educational access among the country’s workers and...

Aetna U.S. Healthcare and the Aetna Foundation today announced an important step in the national campaign against medical error - $840,000 in grants to researchers at five leading academic institutions to study such issues as reducing medication errors, controlling infection...

In its fourth year, the R. Craig Allison Memorial Classic, sponsored by Tollgrade Communications (NASDAQ: TLGD), has raised $70,000 for several local charities this year. Since the tournament began in 1997, Tollgrade has donated more than
$160,000 to charitable org...

Surpassing a previous world record set in August 1999, ShopKo suppliers, friends and employees today raised $2,508,498 in the 2000 ShopKo Charity Golf Classic. Supporting Special Olympics programs in 19 states, today's total exceeds last years' $2,041,776 by nearly a half mi...

Sallie Mae (NYSE: SLM) today announced
that delegates participating in its "Campaign for Literacy" during the
Republican National Convention donated more than 1,500 children's books to
benefit family literacy programs.
The Center for Literacy, Pen...

Rarely does the world's largest corporation get to make a surprise move. However, that's just what happened today, when the GM Foundation donated $36,000 to Offering Alternative Therapy with Smiles, Inc. (O.A.T.S.). Located in Clarkston, Mich., O.A.T.S. is a non-profit organ...

To show appreciation to the local community for its support during the company's ten years of manufacturing, Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg., Inc. (TIEM) today announced the establishment of an annual scholarship through the Heritage Fund of Bartholomew County, Inc.

The Texaco Foundation convened educators representing 13 museums and educational institutions at the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) at the University of California at Berkeley to assess the role of science in education reform and to share ideas for early childhood science pr...

Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) and San José Mayor Ron Gonzales issued a challenge today to the high technology community of Silicon Valley urging increased support of the Santa Clara County Walk For AIDS. The Walk recently increased its annual fundraising goal to $1 million this...

Sears, Roebuck and Co. (NYSE: S) today presented the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund with a $10,000 donation to aid in relief efforts following the devastating tornado that swept through the Granite Falls area Tuesday evening.

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