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The National Business Community Blog is a statewide community web log and news feed for businesses releasing information about their non-profit contributions and volunteer efforts.

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• Top Stars Telecast 12 Hours of Holiday Music and Memories for the Visually Impaired to Over 80 Million Homes on Multiple Cable Networks

  Posted on Monday December 17th, 2007 at 13:13 in California, donations, inkind, los angeles, volunteering

  LOS ANGELES — For 12 days leading up to Christmas, many top stars along with top athletes and various states’ governors, will record audio greeting cards for the blind and visually impaired. The 1...

• Lawyer James Smyth Appointed to Blind Center of Nevada Board of Directors

  Posted on Thursday October 18th, 2007 at 12:19 in las vegas, nevada, volunteering

  LAS VEGAS – James (Jim) Smyth, a partner with the Nevada law firm Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario (Kummer Kaempfer), has been appointed to the Blind Center of Nevada board of directors wh...

• UPS Employees Around the World Launch Global Volunteer Week

  Posted on Monday October 15th, 2007 at 13:09 in atlanta, georgia, volunteering

  ATLANTA — As UPS continues to celebrate its 100th birthday in 2007, its employees around the globe plan to devote thousands of hours giving back to their communities this week during the companyâ€...

• CSX and City Year Join Forces to Support Atlanta

  Posted on Friday October 12th, 2007 at 13:22 in atlanta, beautification, georgia, volunteering

  ATLANTA — Approximately 50 CSX employees, 50 community members and eight City Year members will complete more than 430 total hours of community service at Lang Carson Community Center and Krog St...

• Commission Gets New Name, Support from Nevada's First Lady Dawn Gibbons

  Posted on Wednesday September 12th, 2007 at 12:23 in fallon, nevada, volunteering

  FALLON, Nev. — The Nevada Commission for National & Community Service (NCNCS) has been renamed Nevada Volunteers. The name change is to better generate awareness for the need and role of volunteer...

• Safeway Raises $7 Million for MDA

  Posted on Tuesday September 4th, 2007 at 13:09 in California, donations, pleasanton, volunteering

  PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway, Inc. announced today that it raised a record $7 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) during a month-long campaign at the company’s more than 1,600 U.S...

• Companies Donate $25,000 in Services to Clean Lincoln Memorial

  Posted on Thursday July 19th, 2007 at 12:45 in restoration projects, volunteering, washington d.c.

  WASHINGTON, D. C. — Yesterday, pressure washers planned to clean sections of the Lincoln Memorial to remove dirt, discarded gum and food stains as part of the Power Washers of North America (PWNA) C...

• Volunteers Join Neighborhood Beautification Effort

  Posted on Thursday May 3rd, 2007 at 09:30 in beautification, nevada, partnering, rotc, volunteering