Philanthropy

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) and NetSchools Corporation today announced plans to partner to offer Internet-based learning to K-12 schools. HP and NetSchools will provide every student and teacher at participating schools with a laptop computer, allowing access to the ...

The University of North Texas System Center at Dallas has been awarded $150,000 in cash and services from AT&T Foundation. A portion of the gift will help maintain computer classrooms, computer labs and a virtual library and initiate outreach efforts to area school child...

In today’s time-starved environment, people who volunteer for a charitable organization want their time used effectively and efficiently. The UPS Foundation is taking another step to help make that experience more commonplace by tripling its investment in the Volunteer Impac...

KeyCorp announced today that its Retail Banking subsidiary, KeyBank National Association, has signed a third consecutive four-year agreement with the City of Cleveland for local community reinvestment. The latest $400 million commitment increases Key's funding for community ...

The Hispanic Culture Foundation and Intel Corporation today announced a historic $2 million, three-year collaboration to integrate the latest technology tools at the new National Hispanic Cultural Center. Located in Albuquerque, the Cultural Center is the largest and most st...

Senior-to-Senior Internet Training Week, an inter-generational program sponsored by AT&T (NYSE: T), was launched today to help bridge the "Digital Divide" for senior citizens in NW Denver.

Internet-savvy senior high school students f...

100 Black Men of America, Inc. recently hosted their 14th Annual National Conference, June 7th –June 11th, 2000 in East Rutherford, NJ at the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel. Esther Silver Parker, President of the AT&T Foundation and Thomas W. Dortch, Jr., President of 100 Bl...

BellSouth today announced its support of an Internet2 research project, a collaborative effort between teams at the Georgia Institute of Technology and North Carolina State University. Internet2 is a consortium of over 170 universities, in alliance with industry and governme...

The vision of a new technology center in one of Chicago’s most underserved areas became a reality. Today’s opening of the Lawndale Legacies Community Technology Center (LLCTC) represents the combined efforts of the Lawndale Christian Development Corporation (LCDC) and the Fr...

The Goldman Sachs Foundation recently awarded six new grants to promote innovation and excellence in education worldwide, each in excess of US$1 million. Announcing the grants, Stephanie Bell-Rose, the Foundation’s President remarked: "These grants reflect the Foundation’s m...