PPG recently completed a COLORFUL COMMUNITIES^® project in collaboration with Girl Power to help revitalize Richmond Heights Middle School. Located in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, the school provides education to more than 500 students annually in sixth through eighth grade. The project brought together more than 100 of PPG’s top global leaders, who spent a portion of their annual global leadership meeting making a difference in the lives of the school’s students and faculty.

Michelman recently held Commitment2Communty Day, the company’s 6th annual global day of service when hundreds of employees around the globe left their offices, labs and email behind to volunteer their time at a wide variety of locations.

Through shared company values, Manchester-based companies, HMG Paints, Taylor Fay Homes and Macmillan Cancer Support have come together to show how businesses can utilize their core business activities to make a huge positive impact in their community, through HMG Paints’ “Paint The Town Green” campaign.

More than 200 children in Egypt's have benefited from a major renovation of their school's facilities, which was organized as part of AkzoNobel's global Human Cities initiative.

AkzoNobel has donated $100,000 and a scholarship program to a Pontiac, Michigan, youth organization to help revitalize the city.

There is a generous tax benefit aimed at C Corporations that donate goods to charity. Unfortunately, many retailers have never even heard of this particular section of the tax code.

Lighthouse for the Blind-Saint Louis (LHB), a not-for-profit manufacturing and packaging organization with a dedicated social service mission, has won a $19.5 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency, which is the Department of Defense's largest logistics combat support agency.

PPG Industries announced the completion of a Colorful Communities™ project in Zhangjiagang, China, that helped to revitalize the Nansha Primary School as part of its global charitable-giving effort.