News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the finance industry.
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06-05-00
Bank of America today announced that its first 15 talking ATMs, of the 1,600 the bank will put in California, are now operating. The first cities to receive the machines are: San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Westminster, Berkeley, Oakland, Woodland Hills an...
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06-01-00
Bank of America received the Urban Financial Services Coalition Corporate Award at the coalition's National Conference, held May 24-27 in San Francisco. This is the second time in four years the bank has received this honor.
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05-16-00
Bank of America was named the large business winner of the 2000 Family Friendly Business Awards last week in Tampa. The Family Friendly Business Awards were developed by Nova Southeastern University's Family Center of Tampa Bay. The awards selection committee is comprised of...
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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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05-02-00
Bank of America remains the only large U.S. bank that will not share, sell or otherwise disclose information about its customers to third party organizations for marketing their products or services, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Hugh L. McColl, Jr., said today.
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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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04-20-00
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.