Philanthropy
Donations to community initiatives with the intention of giving back for the greater common good.
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12-19-00
Ford Gives Holiday Greeting Cards a Second Life at Detroit Auto Show
For the eighth year, Ford Motor Company and St. Jude's Ranch for Children are teaming up to collect used greeting cards for recycling - and they're counting on visitors from the 2001 North American International Auto Show in Detroit to help.
The children's chari...
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12-18-00
Nonprofit Software Company Helps Thousands of Children this Holiday Season
This holiday season, as many people are digging deeper into their pockets for charitable contributions, Blackbaud remains committed to the nonprofit community. On top of its year-long focus on philanthropy, Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB), the leading global provider of softw...
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12-18-00
Kroger and Hormel Ring in the Holidays by Donating Gift Certificates for 10,000 Holiday Hams to Charity
With the help of customers across the country, The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) and Hormel Foods today announced they are donating gift certificates for more than 10,000 Hormel CURE 81 hams to non-profit organizations to help feed needy families this holiday season.
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12-18-00
Marriot’s Welfare-To-Work Program, Pathways To Independence, Reaches 10-Year Milestone
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE:MAR) today announced that its nationally recognized welfare-to-work program, Pathways to Independence…A Training for Jobs Program has reached a 10-year milestone.
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12-08-00
U.S.-Born Priest Receives $100,000 Global Award for Work with Orphans in Mexico, Haiti, Central America
The Rev. William Bryce Wasson received a $100,000 global child advocacy award today for his lifelong dedication to getting orphans and abandoned children off the streets in Mexico, Haiti and Latin America. Wasson, who will celebrate his 77th birthday later this month, found...
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12-05-00
Pitney Bowes Announces Internet Postage Program Helping Small Businesses Beat the Postage Rate Increase and Grow Their Bottom Line
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...
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12-05-00
The Millennium Speaker Series Continues On Dec. 6th
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...
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12-04-00
Microsoft and Boys & Girls Clubs of America Announce Club Tech Initiative To "Technology Enable" Clubs Across the United States With $100 Million Donation
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...
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12-03-00
Computer Associates Announces New Pro Bono Program To Donate Legal Services To Those In Need
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...
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12-01-00
$20 Million Affordable Housing Effort in Atlanta Launched by NAACP-Atlanta, Bank of America and Freddie Mac
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...
