Philanthropy

Michigan Consolidated Gas Company
(MichCon) has completed its Legacy Grant Program, in which the MichCon
Foundation contributed $1.75 million to nonprofit organizations throughout
Michigan in honor of MichCon's 150th birthday.
The program had two ...

Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) has funded twelve teachers from across the country to attend week-long summer sessions at the Key Issues Institute in Silverthorne, Colorado. The teachers for the Year 2000 Compaq program are:

Brown Shoe Company, Inc. (NYSE: BWS) has signed a licensing agreement with this year's 8-time Grammy winner, Carlos Santana, to produce a line of men's and women's fashion footwear under the signature "Carlos" label, the company announced today.

Polaroid Corporation is donating fl. 100,000 (approximately $ 50,000) to disaster relief efforts for the residents of Enschede, Netherlands, where the company operates a major manufacturing and distribution facility.

At least 18 people d...

Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced that it has made a $25,000 donation to the Good Neighbor Partnership Fund to benefit impoverished women, children and families in the Philadelphia area. The Good Neighbor Partnership Fund was created by The Philadelphia Foundation...

Intel Corporation today announced the addition of high-tech industry leaders IBM and Toshiba as corporate supporters of the Intel® Teach to the Future teacher training program. With corporate support from companies such as Microsoft Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company and P...

Thousands of outstanding teachers and high school seniors are putting on a happy face -- and not just because summer break is around the corner. Thanks to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) teachers will be appreciated for excellence in education and students will have financ...

Harcourt, Inc. announced today that it will donate 1,000 copies each of one of its most popular and best-selling books, Stellaluna, to young children's programs in the states of Massachusetts and Texas in honor of legislation sponsored by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutc...

More than 60 Delta Air Lines’ employees will partner with Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity tomorrow to help revitalize Savannah’s East Side by building the first four new homes of the Park Place subdivision.

"Delta is committed to bui...

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. & ISLANDIA, N.Y. - Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) and the Long Island Children's Museum (LICM) today marked the end of the third year of KICKStart, a groundbreaking community initiative designed to address critical social and educati...