Donations to community initiatives with the intention of giving back for the greater common good.
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05-10-00
Bank of America today announced a donation of 550 laptop computers to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) to support staff and students.
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05-10-00
Albertson's Food & Drug stores have come to the aid of the Los Alamos community, in response to emergency needs as a threatening forest fire approaches the city and citizens evacuate their homes, taking shelter in the Santa Fe community. With the combined effort of the A...
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05-09-00
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) raised and contributed nearly $47 million for local communities in the first quarter of 2000, which ended April 30. Wal-Mart associates and customers of more than 3,000 locations nationwide helped raise these funds through the community invol...
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05-09-00
On Saturday, May 20, Nicor employees and their families will gather from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in six communities to work on a variety of landscaping and beautification projects. This year, volunteers will work on various projects in the following communities: Sugar Grove, Cryst...
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05-06-00
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - The MasterCard Foundation today announced a partnership with a consortium of four organizations to conduct a landmark, global research initiative that will test how to sustainably deliver savings services to low-income youth in the developing world....
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05-05-00
Applied Materials, Inc. renewed its commitment to supporting information technology in the People's Republic of China by pledging an additional US $1 million to the Applied Materials Shanghai Research and Development Fund. A joint effort between the Company and the Science a...
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05-03-00
ExxonMobil Foundation announced today that is has contributed more than $16 million in unrestricted grants to 882 colleges and universities in 2000. For the fifth consecutive year, ExxonMobil Foundation's contribution is the nation's largest matching gift program in support ...
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05-03-00
Four students were awarded more than $10,000 in scholarship money by Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) to financially help them pursue their bachelors’ degrees.
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05-01-00
Seventeen of Bank of America's newest associates in Los Angeles will soon transition from welfare to work, thanks to a bank training program. Each new employee successfully completed a customized eight-week training program, and was hired into a position providing ready empl...
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04-29-00
MADRID - The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (International Centre) today announced a new Web site that extends to Spain its global network of Web sites that help find missing children. The Web site,