Citi Habitats, Manhattan Mortgage plan to help homeless children.Citi Habitats, Inc. announced its partnership with Volunteers of America Volunteers of America, national nondenominational organization providing a wide variety of human services as part of a Christian ministry of service. Founded (1896) by Ballington and Maud Booth (see Booth, family) after their withdrawal from the Salvation Army, the , one of the city's largest private providers of homeless services, for Operation Backpack. The week-long event, to take place August 18-22, calls upon the public to bring new or gently used backpacks to any Citi Habitats branch location. The backpacks will then be filled with donated school supplies and distributed to homeless children in the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. family shelter system. Other major corporate sponsors include Manhattan Mortgage, American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. Corporate Services Activities that combine or consolidate certain enterprise-wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners. , Fed Ex, and Starbucks. "We're proud to be a part of such a worthy cause, and we applaud the efforts of all of the companies involved in the project. Helping in the gathering and distribution of these backpacks is the least we could do to give back to the community," said Andrew Heiberger, president and chief executive officer of Citi Habitats. |
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