Pledge to local organization Give India aims to provide assistance to local relief agencies
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 10, 2021 /3BL Media/– Bacardi Limited announces today a USD $100,000 contribution to Give India to help the country in its fight against the COVID-19 virus. Funding provided by Bacardi is earmarked to provide immediate assistance to local relief agencies working to mitigate the worsening impact of the coronavirus pandemic in India. Additionally, the Bacardi team on the ground in India have provided funding for oxygen concentrators to be sent to a local NGO offering humanitarian aid to marginalized communities.
The spike in coronavirus cases in India is the worst in the world right now. Currently, the country is battling more than 412,000 active cases of COVID-19, with states like Maharashtra, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh getting hit the hardest. With thousands of new cases and deaths each day across the country, the health care system in much of the country is overwhelmed. Keeping people alive and others from getting much worse requires oxygen.
CNH Industrial partnered up with Healthy RX Consulting located in Oak Brook, Illinois and hosted a pop-up vaccine clinic at its office location in Burr Ridge, Illinois.
Employees, their family members and people living in the local community had the opportunity to sign up for an appointment to receive the first shot of the two-dose Moderna vaccine on April 29.
NEW YORK, MAY 10, 2021 /3BL Media/ -International advocacy organization Global Citizen announced that the VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World campaign helped mobilize over 26 million COVID-19 vaccine doses and $302 million to the ACT-Accelerator to provide equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests, treatments and other medical tools to the world’s most marginalized communities and healthcare workers on the frontlines.
Through its Open for Business Fund and the Paycheck Protection Program, Wells Fargo is continuing to support small businesses in California with the capital and resources they need to make a way to stay open, day after day.
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The past 12 months have proven the resiliency and resolve of 30 million small businesses across the U.S. as they make a way to stay open day after day. Wells Fargo recognizes the importance of America’s small businesses — for local communities and the broader national economy — and the company continues to provide them with access to the capital and resources they need to weather the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As COVID-19 delivers a terrible toll in India, where Truist has contractors who do so much to support us, we’re living our value of Caring through a $150,000 donation from the Truist Foundation to United Way Worldwide’s India COVID-19 Relief Fund.
Company grants $3 million for health care and emergency response
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2021 /3BL Media/ - As part of its response to the ongoing COVID-19-related humanitarian crisis in India, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is committing more than $3 million through nongovernmental organizations to increase hospital capacity, supply oxygen concentrators and critical medical equipment, provide emergency transportation, and support health care workers.
Thousands of oxygen concentrators and converters, hundreds of thousands of masks among aid being airlifted to India
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 6, 2021 /3BL Media/ — As India and its healthcare systems face a surge in COVID-19 infections across the country, FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, is working with organizations around the world to deliver critical medical supplies and equipment during this crisis.
PLANO, Texas, May 7, 2021 /3BL Media/ - FedEx Office, a world-class provider of convenient, state-of-the-art printing, packing and shipping services and subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), announced today the donation of a retail value of $100,000 for in-kind printing services and solutions to Future Ready Schools®, an equity-focused initiative to transform teaching and learning. The donation aims to reduce disparities in student learning, worsened by COVID-19.
Airline providing up to 5 million bonus miles for donations and matching up to $40,000 in cash donations to disaster relief partners
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CHICAGO, May 12, 2021 /3BL Media/ -- United Airlines expands its efforts to support those impacted by the COVID-19 crisis in India with the launch of a new online fundraising campaign. Customers can donate to the airline's relief partners: Airlink, Americares, GlobalGiving Foundation and World Central Kitchen. United is offering up to 5 million bonus miles to encourage MileagePlus® members to support this effort and will match each donation up to a total of $40,000 in cash donations.
