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Wainwright Bank has provided $2.5 million in financing to the Somerville Housing Group Trust to develop the first phase of Union Place, a two acre mixed use development within walking distance of Union Square, Somerville. Groundbreaking for the first phase at 411-429 Norfolk...

To help support the development of technical professionals in Puerto Rico, Verizon International Foundation has established a scholarship program for computer engineering students at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM).

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UNAIDS today announced a partnership with The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation to bring new impetus to the battle against AIDS. Under the terms of the three-year agreement, the Foundation will co-ordinate the efforts of Coca-Cola Africa and its bottling partners across the contin...

U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, Freddie Mac, and several local organizations today announced that they are bringing the award-winning “Don’t Borrow Trouble” anti-predatory lending campaign to Oakland to help more families learn about and pr...

As an elementary school student, Dr. Pat Gruber and his classmates were asked to write essays detailing what they would like to be when they grew up. Most offered up the expected results a few wanted to become firemen; some professional athletes while others yearned to becom...

A Lakota Sioux family living in what they describe as "low rent housing" will be the recipient -- and owners -- of a brand new house to be built in one week, as part of a volunteer effort sponsored by a local Habitat for Humanity affiliate and The PMI Group, Inc.

American Airlines and Earth Share have partnered to provide American’s more than 115,000 employees with the opportunity to pledge a small amount of each paycheck to help groups focused on environmental preservation. Through these donations, Earth Share provides funding to me...

Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) announced today it is donating $250,000 to the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast. The donation will go to non-profit agencies primarily engaged in assisting flood recovery efforts. Torrential rains in Continental’s hometown of Houston last w...

Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE), the nation’s largest source of financing for home mortgages, has mortgage relief provisions in place for Houston area borrowers facing hardships as a result of widespread damage caused by the recent flood.

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The IUF, COLSIBA and CHIQUITA announced today the signing of an historic agreement on "Freedom of Association, Minimum Labour Standards and Employment in Latin American Banana Operations." Ron Oswald, General Secretary of the IUF; German Zepeda, coordinator of the Latin Amer...