On a Friday afternoon, when many people were looking ahead to weekend plans, 31 Aflac employees gathered in a Columbus, Georgia, warehouse with a different purpose in mind.
As part of the pre-conference programming for Connect the Dots: How Businesses Solve Global Challenges Locally, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation is hosting four free workshops on October 5. Each of the four workshops will take a deep dive into specific issues with experts offering best practices, skill-building exercises, and more.
Center for Powerful Public Schools and UNITE-LA Selected as Grant Recipients of Youth Opportunity Fund to Connect Low-Income Youth in Los Angeles to Career Opportunities
Where were they supposed to turn to get their lives back on track? Who would help?Hurricane Katrina had ripped through New Orleans, leaving in her wake thousands of devastated, distraught and confused residents of one of America’s great cities.
FOX is hosting a contest giving fans the chance to win the Ultimate VIP Experience at the So You Think You Can Dance season finale this fall. Those who use Omaze.com to donate to judge Nigel Lythgoe's Dizzy Feet Foundation, which supports dance education in the U.S., will be entered automatically into a drawing to meet the judges, have dinner with Nigel and Paula Abdul, and enjoy VIP seats at the finale in Los Angeles. So far, the contest has raised more than $10,000, which is enough to provide a year's worth of dance classes for 237 students across America.The deadline to enter is August 31.
Organizations are looking for new, innovative approaches to maximize community impact. Increasingly, working collaboratively across sectors allows individual actors to amplify their efforts and tackle society’s toughest problems.
Kaiser Permanente and Points of Light today announced that volunteers from across the country who served along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina are being honored with the Daily Point of Light Award. One honoree left in the middle of the night to get to Biloxi, Mississippi, to help coordinate evacuation. Another used the Internet to coordinate volunteers and resources. All honorees responded with exceptional efforts and left a lasting impact.
Corporate responsibility is about more, not less: more value creation, more collaboration, more diversity and more passion. This belief in continuous growth and improvement is central to our approach to corporate responsibility here at Symantec.
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