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Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) will host an array of activities throughout 2013 to honor the Company’s long heritage of serving the African American community and showing its strong dedication to diversity and inclusion.  To watch a video of how Southwest Airlines celebrates Black History all year long, visit the airline's YouTube…

Darden Restaurants, and its family of restaurant brands that include Red Lobster, Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse, is supporting the American Red Cross as they respond to those affected by Hurricane Sandy and donating bottled water to help local families. As a member of the Red Cross’ Annual Disaster Giving Program, Darden provides financial support that the Red Cross uses in disaster response. 

“Our restaurants and our restaurant teams are members of hundreds of local…

Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) today announced the winners of the 2012 Graffiti Hurts® Grant Program. This year, KAB provided four $2,500 cash grants as well as two $2,500 paint supply certificates from The Sherwin-Williams Company. Q-Star also provided a FlashCAM, valued at $6,100, to one deserving recipient. The FlashCAM is a deterrent system effective in preventing illegal trespassing during hours it most often occurs.

$2,500 cash grant recipients:

• Population…

Teens who graduate from high school will earn on average $830 more per month than dropouts will; are seven times more likely to own a home; and are eight times less likely to end up in jail -- yet every 26 seconds a young person drops out of high school.  That's more than a million each year, and there are millions more who think about dropping out, but stick with it. The 26 Seconds campaign, presented by State Farm®, offers an online community, activities and prize opportunities as a way to…

Fifteen-year-old Chengo Chewe from Lusaka, Zambia, has turned his life around through the Children International Youth Program. Raised in an extremely volatile community, he lost his father at a young age; few expected him to escape this terrible cycle of poverty and violence. Yet, in 2009, 12-year-old Chengo participated in the United Nations International Youth Day in New York City. Today, Chengo is in high school and plans to study political science in college. His biggest dream?…

Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) announced today that it will provide travel to help make the dreams of more than 3,000 of America's Veterans come true.  As the official commercial airline of the Honor Flight Network since 2009, Southwest has renewed its commitment and will provide $1.2 million in free travel through 2015 to help Veterans visit the memorials dedicated to their brave service to…

The conference, which has been ranked as one of the world's leading executive events, convened close to 60 of the foremost global CEOs to discuss the theme "Next Generation Community Engagement: A Transformative Business Opportunity" and focused on changing the business model to one that simultaneously pursues strategies that create value for a company and address pressing societal challenges. The event featured two panels consisting of:



* Angela…

Creating Shared Value (CSV) is a powerful tool and concept for companies to use as they look to conduct business. Ultimately, it's a strategy for developing the future market while also strengthening economies, the marketplace, communities, and corporate coffers. Yet the term runs the risk of being confused with corporate social responsibility (CSR) or, worse, as being a way to redistribute wealth. To combat this, we are launching a video to…

(3BL Media) May 31, 2012 - David Hessekiel, President of The Cause Marketing Forum sat down for an interview at the 2012 Cause Marketing Forum Conference, taking place May 30th and 31st in Chicago, IL.



The annual Cause Marketing Forum is the must-attend conference of the year focusing solely on this increasingly important marketing approach and subset of corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. Appropriate for both novice and seasoned cause…