The Lights for Learning fundraiser of the Otsego County Community Foundation raised $7,235 after they sold 447 lights. All proceeds from Lights for Learning go to fund teacher mini-grants for school projects.
Nancy Wind of St. Mary Cathedral School received the most honors as an educator in the first Lights for Learning fundraiser. The products awarded in those grants are still used by the St. Mary students.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.