Philanthropy

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...

The SBC Foundation has awarded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, a $1 million technology grant in support of the organization’s Technology Capacity Building Initiative. The SBC Foun...

Sophia Opportunity School announced the opening of their Computer Centre, today. Hon'ble Chief Minister of Karnataka, Mr. S M Krishna, inaugurated the Centre, at a function organized by the School. Microsoft has provided aid towards the construction and setting up of the Cen...

From July 11-22, more than 1,000 Boys & Girls Club members will take part in Camp Old Navy, a job-shadow program hosted by more than 200 Old Navy stores across the U.S. and Canada. Club teens will learn about careers in apparel retail through a behind-the-scenes look at ...

Verizon Wireless gave a $100,000 grant to the American Library Association (ALA) at the ALA annual conference on Sunday, July 9 at McCormick Place Convention Center. Annette Jacobs, president of the Great Lakes Area of Verizon Wireless, presented the grant to Sarah Ann Long,...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck & Co., Inc. and the Republic of Botswana today announced the establishment of the Botswana Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership, a new initiative to improve the overall state of HIV/AIDS care and treatment in Botswana. In coll...