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BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally's® Founder and CTO Ryan Martens will be featured as a speaker at the 2013 Engineers Without Borders (EWB) National Conference in Calgary, Alberta on Sunday, January 13. Ryan will discuss how technologists, Citizen Engineers and social entrepreneurs can use Agile methods to increase the speed and effectiveness of social innovation. His presentation will cover the next increment of Rally's social mission - Rally For Impact, which...
ATLANTA, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing a post-holiday tradition that has helped fulfill the dream of homeownership, the 80th annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be donated to Habitat for Humanity for the sixth year in a row to help families in need of affordable housing. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130108/CL38951 ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050501/NYSU020LOGO ) Tishman Speyer, the company that owns and operates Rockefeller...
NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Habitat for Humanity launched its first-ever fleet of Habitat Mobile Response Units in Atlanta this week to assist communities in New York and New Jersey recovering from Hurricane Sandy. Chevrolet donated a total of 24 Express vans, which were driven from Atlanta to the New York metro area. The fleet stopped in Charlotte, N.C., to be specially outfitted with tools and equipment provided by Lowe's and power tools provided by the Robert Bosch Tool...
Christian humanitarian organization World Vision has many affordable, meaningful gift ideas still available SEATTLE, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With Christmas right around the corner the pressure is on to find the perfect gift. A World Vision survey (conducted by Harris Interactive) found 8 out of 10 Americans (83 percent) say they'd prefer to receive a meaningful gift that would help someone else instead of a traditional gift like clothing or electronics this...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third straight year, Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) partnered with Monroe County Habitat for Humanity and Indiana University to build a new home with a local low-income family. Employees, students, alumni and volunteers from the community built the home in partnership with Ashley, Doyle and Hailey Kell, who received the keys to their new home on Oct. 13, prior to IU's Homecoming game against Ohio State University. To view...
AMANA, Iowa, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) and Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity have completed construction on the home built in partnership with the Scheidt family, dedicating the house in a ceremony that took place October 15. The partners helped build the home as part of the 2012 Whirlpool-sponsored Habitat builds, which are taking place in Whirlpool communities throughout the country. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release,...
Brain Host, a web hosting company based in Akron, has joined forces with Habitat for Humanity of Summit County for an ongoing fundraising campaign. Akron, Ohio (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 Brain Host, a web hosting company based in Akron, has joined forces with Habitat for Humanity of Summit County for an ongoing fundraising campaign. Customers of web hosting provider Brain Host will have the opportunity to add a $1.00 donation to their order at checkout, which will then be matched by the...
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Habitat for Humanity International announced today a commitment from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for $6.8 million in 2013 to help build 113 Habitat for Humanity houses across the United States. Through a unique partnership, called Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity, Thrivent Financial and its members have now committed more than $180 million and more than 3.5 million volunteer hours since 2005. Thrivent Financial remains the...
Spark a Child's Digital Future Initiative to Launch in 2013 SEATTLE, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week in Prague, Czech Republic, Microsoft closed the Partners in Learning Global Forum with an announcement of their $75 million investment and commitment to an initiative that will bring digital access to youth and educators in developing nations, beginning in Kenya in 2013, scaling across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond over the next five years. Spark a Child's Digital...
ATLANTA, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Habitat for Humanity served a record 94,618 families through new home construction, rehabilitation and repairs in fiscal year 2012 (July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012), breaking the previous fiscal year's record by more than 13,000 families. This equates to a family improving their living conditions on average every five-and-a-half minutes in one of the nearly 80 countries around the world where Habitat works. (Photo:...
