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Be part of the culinary conversation: A special event uniting food lovers and content creators.

Black Veterans for Social Justice (BVSJ) is thrilled to announce a new initiative with Microsoft aimed at empowering over 5,000 veterans with essential technology skills and career-building opportunities. This initiative, supported by Microsoft’s Nonprofit Tech Acceleration for Black and African American Communities, will provide targeted digital skills development to help veterans advance in today’s fast-paced digital economy.With training topics ranging from cybersecurity and coding to artific

Tech Collaboration Advances and Supports Elementary and Middle-School Education and Community Empowerment for Underserved Youth Communities of Color Across the Country

The hybrid event will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King while raising funds for under-represented students in the Twin Cities

The three-day event returns to fully in-person for the first time in more than three years, featuring 200+ speakers, including government officials, philanthropists, scientists, and more

Qualtrics’ Classroom Wish List Giveaway honors six teachers committed to creating great experiences for their students

Armory Square Ventures, a technology venture capital firm operating across New York State, announced its launch today of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation. The new annual prize awards a talented literary translator with book publication. The winning manuscript, selected by a jury of peers, will be a translation of a literary work from one South Asian language into English.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.

Report Details the Company’s Continued Dedication to Environmental, Social, and Governance Sustainability Practices

New high-touch program delivers financial education, college planning and career readiness training and scholarships for students

2022 Program Expands to Include an Additional Artist; Introduces Peer Mentoring Facet of CurriculumLast Year’s Program Garnered 100% Staffing Success Rate Across Nickelodeon and ViacomCBS ProductionsClick HERE for bios and headshots.

 

Legendary producer and songwriter Jimmy Jam, along with RWQuarantunes’ Richard and Demi Weitz, will host the special event, featuring Clive Davis, Smokey Robinson and many more surprise guests

Virtual event will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King, raise funds for UNCF Twin Cities.

In six months of operations, NWK has reopened dozens of local businesses and become a model of community investment, supported by investments from the City of Newark, private companies and philanthropists

Brookfield Properties Will Host Pop-Up Studios at 165 U.S. Retail Locations; AI Technology from SpotMyPhotos Lets 200 Photographers Present Final Headshots to Participants Onsite

 Gotham Assembles Powerhouse Roster of Authors, Content Creators, Filmmakers and Celebrities to Launch GOTHAM READS on Wednesday, April 22nd at 3pm ET/Noon PT; 826LA, Common Sense Media, Girls, Inc., Imagine LA, P.S. Arts, Save the Children, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, SCBWI and Young Storytellers On Board

PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced the completion of 11 COLORFUL COMMUNITIES® projects in the first half of 2019 that helped create bright and colorful spaces across the U.S.“At PPG, our goal is to enhance, protect and beautify neighborhoods in the communities where the company has a presence,” said Malesia Dunn, executive director, corporate global social responsibility and PPG Foundation. “We are proud of the positive impact that our paint products and dedicated employee volunteers have made so fa

The Climate Stewardship Act of 2019 directs 16 BILLION trees to be planted in the U.S. by 2050 and creates 200K forestry and urban forestry jobs. #reforestamerica #greenjobs

DHA’s Opportunity Rising Foundation Announces Scholarships Awarded to 22 North Texas High School Students

College and High School Students Earn National Awards For Community Service Impact

“In Concert with Hope” to feature the musical talent of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Booker T. Jones, and two-time GRAMMY nominee Mindi Abair and The Boneshakers

Employee volunteers living out mission to create cleaner, safer, healthier spaces; seek to foster creativity inside four local schools by beautifying exteriors

High School Students Can Nominate Their Favorite K-12 Teachers for the “Barnes & Noble National Teacher of the Year” Award National Winner and Their School to Split $10,000 in Cash Prizes

PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced the completion of a COLORFUL COMMUNITIES™ project in collaboration with HandsOn Miami that helped revitalize Booker T. Washington High School. The school serves more than 950 students in ninth through 12th grade, with approximately 90 percent of attending students receiving free or reduced lunches and some experiencing homelessness. The Colorful Communities program provides PPG volunteers and paint products along wit

Schools Screening Campaign of award-winning STRAWS documentary is newest nonprofit partner of 1% for the Planet to inspire environmental action.

Yamaha Marine Group today announced a new marine plastics removal program in support of the Save Our Seas Act (S. 756), which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on July 25, 2018. The bill aims to strengthen research and international coordination of anti-debris efforts to protect America’s oceans, coastlines, and inland waterways. The Yamaha Marine Plastics Initiative not only endorses the bill, but aims to raise awareness and advocacy for the iss

Funds Assist 15 Small Businesses in Hurricane Harvey Recovery Efforts

In a show of force, 15 fellow Senators co-sponsor the innovative health care bill Senator Sanders also recently endorsed the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act (State Issue 2), a November 2017 ballot issue to compel state agencies in Ohio to pay no more for their drugs than what the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) pays for the same medications. The VA receives a discount—from 20-24 percent off the price the drug companies normally charge other customers for these same drugs.

Day-Lee to Donate Thousands of Pounds of Food to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank