News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the finance industry.
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04-20-00
Some of the more impressive numbers at Bank of America have less to do with interest rates, CDs and IRAs, and more to do with the hundreds of individuals the company and Goodwill Industries are moving off welfare and into well-paying jobs in the banking industry.
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04-19-00
Seven nonprofit agencies throughout California that provide technical assistance to selected small businesses in the state will share in a $350,000 grant from Wells Fargo called the Technical Assistance Initiative.
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04-14-00
Freddie Mac and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition/Wall Street Project today announced a joint campaign to increase homeownership among minority families. As part of the campaign, known as the Freddie Mac/ Wall Street Project Minority Homeownership Initiative, the Fortune 100 compan...
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04-12-00
United Way of America has awarded its 13th annual Spirit of America Award - its highest national honor for corporate community involvement - to Bank of America.
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04-05-00
In a message delivered to all employees, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) announced that the firm is making a special one-time grant covering approximately two million shares to the firm’s junior professi...
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03-20-00
Bank of America has been named the Outstanding Philanthropic Corporation by the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (NSFRE), the largest association of charitable fund raisers in the world. Bank of America will be honored at NSFRE's International Conference on Fund R...
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02-17-00
The Goldman Sachs Foundation today announced the approval of the first three in a series of significant grants to education organizations, each for $1 million. Two of the three grants reflect the Foundation's brand of "venture philanthropy," which will leverage its grants wi...