Philanthropy
Donations to community initiatives with the intention of giving back for the greater common good.
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07-05-00
Pfizer Reports Significant Progress on Diflucan Partnership Program
Pfizer Inc today said its partnership with the South African Ministry of Health to provide Diflucan to treat cryptococcal meningitis in patients with HIV/AIDS is progressing expeditiously, and the program will begin treating patients in the Fall. Diflucan is designed to trea...
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07-03-00
Microsoft's Connected Learning Community Grants Enhance Programs at 35 Local Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Emmanuel Hutchinson, a student at Tucson High School, gave up football to attend classes at the Tucson-Pima Arts Council's Multimedia Arts Education Center, a component of the Council's Arts Education Program. He found the environment safe -- other kids didn't try to intimid...
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07-03-00
Delta Air Lines, American Red Cross And The Fox Network Team Up For Charity
Delta’s SkyWishä program, American Red Cross and the FOX network turned a fantasy into reality for one "Power Rangers family." The Streepeys of Lexington, Ky., won the "FOX Kids On-Location Vacation" package. The children of Ben and Judi Streepey, Sarah and Benjamin, are de...
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07-03-00
Earth Grains Bread Raises Dough for American Cancer Society
The Earthgrains Company will donate five cents to the American Cancer Society in St. Louis for every package of Earth Grains brand breads, bagels and buns sold in the metropolitan St. Louis area in Missouri and Illinois from Sunday, June 25, to Sunday, July 16.
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06-29-00
U S WEST Foundation Awards $27,000 Education Outreach Grant to Catholic Schools of South Dakota
The U S WEST Foundation has awarded a $27,000 grant to support technology integration into South Dakota's Catholic schools education system.
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06-29-00
Polaroid Foundation Awards $847,000 to Local Nonprofit Organizations
The Polaroid Foundation today awarded more than $847,000 to nonprofit organizations based largely in eastern and New Bedford, Massachusetts - the home to nearly 4,000 Polaroid Corporation employees.
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06-29-00
American Presents $100,000 Check to the Komen Foundation from Donations Made by Thousands of West Coast Customers
A check for $100,000 was presented to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation by American Airlines today as a result of a "Fly For The Cure" program American conducted throughout the West Coast last fall after it significantly expanded its West Coast route network.
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06-28-00
Cincinnati Association for the Blind Continues Its Building Campaign
The Cincinnati Association for the Blind (CAB) continues to solicit funding for the renovation of its East Walnut Hills facility. Renovation began to its existing facility located on Gilbert Avenue in January of 1999.
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06-27-00
Microsoft Recognizes 48 High School Teachers Through Curriculum Grant Program 2000
Microsoft Corp. today announced that 48 middle- and high school teachers nationwide will receive more than $1.3 million in software licenses as part of the Microsoft® Curriculum Grant Program, an initiative designed to help educators create leading-edge information technolog...
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06-27-00
Intel Joins Forces With The Science Museum In London To Create Vision Of Digital Future
Intel Corporation and the Science Museum in London will celebrate the realization of an ambitious collaboration to develop the world's leading center for contemporary science when Her Majesty The Queen opens the new £50 million Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum in London ...
