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ATLANTA, Oct. 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The UPS Foundation,the philanthropic arm of UPS® (NYSE: UPS), announced it has awarded nearly$2.5 million to non-profit organizations with an emphasis onenvironmental sustainability. The UPS Foundation's largestenvironmental grant recipient is The Nature Conservancy, a leadingconservation organization that works globally to protectecologically important lands and bodies of water.
Launched in 2011, UPS's Global Forestry Initiative goal is tohelp plant, protect and preserve trees in urban and rural areas andcritical forests around the world. UPS's ongoing contribution toThe Nature Conservancy continues to support the program forreforestation in the U.S., Brazil, Guatemala, Haiti and China.Through this effort, The Nature Conservancy will be directlyresponsible for planting 700,000 trees in at-risk or erodedecosystems. The grant will also be used to support the ResponsibleAsia Forest Trade Dialogues program with the EU and to support theHealthy Trees, Healthy Cities Initiative.
The company also announced that it has surpassed the company's2014 tree planting goals, planting more than 1.7 million trees thisgrant cycle. Since 2012, The UPS Foundation and UPS employees haveplanted more than 3 million trees across 47 countries to supportthe environment.
The UPS Foundation has four philanthropic pillars which arefunded in local communities throughout the year. UPS's globalprograms are funded quarterly and in 2013, over 4,300 non-profitand NGO organizations worldwide received funding. The philanthropicpillars are Community Safety, Diversity, Environment andVolunteerism.
"At UPS, we believe volunteers are at the heart of all effortsat building community resiliency and they are critical to helpsustain our environment," said Eduardo Martinez, president of TheUPS Foundation. "Through volunteer service hours committed by UPSemployees as well as our environmental grants program, The UPSFoundation is dedicated to delivering time and resources to enhanceenvironmental stewardship, especially in support of carbonreduction, environmental research, education and conservation."
In addition to The Nature Conservancy, nine other organizationsare recipients of The UPS Foundation's 2014 environmental grants.They include:
- Student Conservation Association Inc. (SCA)for the SCA National Conservation Internship program for collegestudents interested in careers in environmental stewardship.
- World Business Council for SustainableDevelopment to support the organization's annualconference by providing organizational support around sustainabledevelopment programs.
- World Resources Institute towardsustainability research to support of The Greenhouse Gas Protocoland Reducing Methane Emissions from Natural GasSystems.
- World Wildlife Fund to build local capacityfor tropical rainforest restoration and reforestation in Africa,Asia and Latin American through 10 Education for GlobalReforestation grants.
- DonorsChoose.org for environmental educationclassroom projects submitted by public school teachers in ruralcommunities.
- Earth Day Network to help the Trees forCommunities project plant 380,000 trees in Ethiopia, Kenya andTanzania as well as throughout the Boreal Forest in Canada, Russiaand Norway.
- Keep America Beautiful, Inc., for 30 communityplanting tree grants and five post-recovery tree plantinggrants.
- National Arbor Day Foundation forreforestation projects in the U.S. and the Boreal Forest inCanada.
- National Park Foundation toward continuedbacking of the reforestation of reclaimed mining land whichsupports the UPS Global Forestry Initiative at the new Flight 93National Memorial in Shanksville, Penn., honoring the heroes ofSept. 11.
For more information about UPS's corporate giving, please visitwww.UPS.com/Foundation.
About The UPS Foundation
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering abroad range of solutions including the transportation of packagesand freight; the facilitation of international trade, and thedeployment of advanced technology to more efficiently manage theworld of business. Since its founding in 1907, UPS has built alegacy as a caring and responsible corporate citizen, supportingprograms that provide long-term solutions to community needs.Founded in 1951, The UPS Foundation leads UPS's global citizenshipprograms which facilitates community involvement in local,national, and global communities. In 2013, UPS and its employees,active and retired, invested more than $102 million in charitablegiving around the world. The UPS Foundation can be found on the webat UPS.com/Foundation. Toget UPS news direct, visit pressroom.ups.com/RSS.
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27% profits every 20 days?
This is what Nic Chahine averages with his options buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads... BUYING options. Most traders don't even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here's how he does it.
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