Philanthropy

The Bank of America Foundation announced it has contributed $30,000 in Community Catalyst Grants to six local health and human services organizations that focus on early childhood development at the grassroots level. As part of the bank's Community Catalyst program, each org...

"The key ingredient to success in bridging the Digital Divide is broad-based, community-wide support," said Eric Benhamou, chairman and CEO of 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) Wednesday during his keynote address for the Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley. "Computers and hig...

Wednesday's Child, a weekly televised adoption feature, is coming to Los Angeles' KTTV Fox 11 on July 19 to help recruit families for Los Angeles-area foster children who need immediate adoptive homes, thanks to a cooperative program announced today by the Freddie Mac Founda...

The Freddie Mac Foundation has invested $225,000 in two community-based programs – the Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment ($100,000) and Crystal Stairs ($125,000). Both programs focus on the needs of children and their families in the South Cent...

Bank of America has been honored with the 1999 Donaldson Award, one of the North Carolina Governor's Business Awards in the Arts and Humanities. The award was presented to Bank of America for its long-standing support of the arts to improve the quality of life in the communi...

First Union Corporation today announced a $750,000 investment in the Florida Community Loan Fund to support its neighborhood revitalization and affordable housing initiatives throughout the state.

First Union's investment uses an innovat...

A neighborhood watch group in East Orange now has instant access to police thanks to wireless phones donated by Verizon Wireless, formerly Bell Atlantic Mobile.

Through the company's "Wireless at Work" program, three cellular phones prog...

Students returning to school in the Borough of Middlesex this fall will walk to school on safer streets, thanks to wireless phones donated by Verizon Wireless, formerly Bell Atlantic Mobile. School crossing guards in the Borough have been outfitted with wireless phones progr...

No more teachers, no more books ... it's time to send teens off to work! From July 12 - July 16, more than 1,000 Boys & Girls Club members will learn the nuances of an apparel retail career by participating in "Camp Old Navy," a job-shadowing program hosted by more than ...

Kweisi Mfume, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Michael H. Dulan, Bank of America Community Development Banking president, today announced a five-year, $6 million initiative to help increase homeownership among tradition...