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June 3rd, 2011

Jersey Cares Day 2011

Jersey Cares Day, which took place on May 7, 2011, is organized in the spirit of partnership and community-building across the state of New Jersey.
Volunteers got involved in several creative projects at the Martin Luther King, Jr. School, the most diverse community school in Jersey City with over 800 students–most of whose first language is [...]

“Mathletes” Turn Up in Record Numbers

More than 1,000 kids from the New York City area – a 20 percent increase over 2010 – turned out on May 14th to participate in the 6th annual AMS Pi5NY Math Tournament sponsored by BNP Paribas. The bank partnered up with the Urban Assembly School of Applied Math and Science, the New York Department [...]

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May 10th, 2011

Rain or Shine: Trees Spring Up in the Bronx and Staten Island

While storm clouds provided the backdrop to this year’s Arbor Day, nothing could stop the BNP Paribas volunteers from coming out and getting their hands dirty in support of MillionTreesNYC. [...]

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April 29th, 2011

Volunteers band together in support of Project Sunshine

“It was a close race” according to Esther Reid, coordinator of Philanthropic Initiatives for BNP Paribas in the United States. She was talking about the recent Regional Philanthropic Initiative, a nationwide project involving the bank’s employees, which took the form of a gift-making competition to support Project Sunshine. [...]

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April 4th, 2011

New Subway Campaign Set to Launch MillionTreesNYC Events

You may not know it from the New York weather, but spring is here…and that means that BNP Paribas is getting back involved in MillionTreesNYC initiatives across the city!
It will be the fourth consecutive year BNP Paribas is supporting this important initiative to plant, and care for, one million trees by the year 2017 – [...]

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March 15th, 2011

Paving the Roadways with Green

What’s the first thing you see when driving to Manhattan from the airport, or into the city from New Jersey or Connecticut to see a Broadway show? Even before the skyline, there are the roadways. [...]

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February 23rd, 2011

Carrots, Onions and 1,500 Meals

At the end of January, a team of BNP Paribas employees in New York chopped 200 pounds of carrots and onions, working together to prepare 1,500 meals in one hour for the charity “God’s Love We Deliver.” [...]

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December 22nd, 2010

All Wrapped Up for the Holidays

Once again this season, BNP Paribas teamed up with New York Cares’ Winter Wishes and Jersey Cares’ Frosty Friends programs to give children in need a special holiday. Employees responded to the dreams written in a child’s letter by bringing in the requested gift and wrapping them during the weeklong event.
More than 560 letters were [...]

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December 21st, 2010

Charity Fair in New York: What you missed!

In November, BNP Paribas held the Third Annual Holiday Charity Fair in New York. Organizations came out to talk to employees about how they can volunteer their time and what their initiatives are all about. [...]

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