Among the special guests was Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, who marked his 13th year of visiting the program. He praised it for becoming a Christmas tradition.

More than 100 schools and 400 students participated in the three-day Global Classrooms® conference in New Delhi early this month.

Merrill Lynch has been awarded a Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership Award, given to companies and individuals that create opportunities for businesses and schools to come together to help young people succeed.

Jersey City was among our office locations worldwide hosting senior citizens, who are invited to make free phone calls to loved ones as part of our annual Christmas Calls program.

As part of our Investing Pays Off® program, more than 20 California groups that teach young people about business and entrepreneurship will benefit from our multiyear grants.

With Global Philanthropy and New York Cares, the Asian Pacific American Professional Network and a GPC team took part in volunteer work at three New York public schools.

The mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, thanked Merrill Lynch for contributing more volunteers to the city's Principal for a Day program than any other corporation.

In thanking us for sponsoring Atlanta's Principal for a Day program, Mayor Shirley Franklin said, “I'd say they put their money where their heart is.”

Merrill Lynch Foundation has donated US$50,000 to Hong Kong education charity EdExchange for its new program "Community Leaders of Tomorrow."

The 12 semifinalists, who had all written essays about the effect of the leftist trend in South America on the international community and on the Latin American integration process and Brazil’s response, each met with two interviewers, toured the trading desk and met Richard Rainer, head of ML Brazil.

Sponsored by the Merrill Lynch Foundation, NYC & Company's 6th annual family friendly celebration features live performances on two stages.

Employee volunteers in New York wrote about their experiences with the Principal for a Day program, which they called rewarding — but exhausting.

While volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, a group of Global Private Client employees touched the lives of New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina, encountered a celebrity and later found themselves on national television.

Fifteen volunteers who are members of the Black Professional Network visited two New York City public schools, Mott Hall II and Crossroads, to deliver financial literacy classes from Global Philanthropy's Investing Pays Off® curriculum.

Our Principals for a Day talked about what it's like to be a school principal in Miami, the seventh U.S. city in which we've sponsored the program that supports urban schools.

A boat sailed by Merrill Lynch employees sailed for charity on New York's Hudson River, winning $20,000 for school children.

William Lorenz, of GPC's Tri-South region, is co-chair this year of Atlanta's “Principal for a Day” program on October 30, when business leaders will serve at local public schools.

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Our U.S. volunteers celebrated with the National Guard Youth Foundation and the graduates of its ChalleNGE Academies who are getting Merrill Lynch college scholarships.

In a strong display of support, nearly 400 Merrill Lynch employees, school principals and elected officials and school district administrators gathered at a breakfast on September 8 to kick off the expansion of the Principal for a Day program to Miami.

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More than 380 Brazilian high school students participated in the first-ever Global Classrooms® Model United Nations conference in São Paulo.

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Financial advisors led workshops based on the Investing Pays Off® curriculum at the NULITES Youth Leadership Summit, part of the National Urban League's annual conference.

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Eleven months after one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history, Merrill Lynch and its employees continue to pick up the pieces.

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Employee volunteers in the Principal for a Day program have been strengthening their relationships with public schools in New York City.

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High school students used the knowledge they gained from a curriculum sponsored by Merrill Lynch to win a stock market investment contest.

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At a conference hosted by the St. Louis Minority Business Council, Stan O’Neal discussed the importance to business leaders of emphasizing corporate diversity.

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New York City school principals visited Merrill Lynch headquarters during “Business Leader for a Day,” to get a taste of corporate life and its operating principles.

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Working with the South Carolina Council on Economic Education, we are sponsoring finance-related programs in the state, including the Merrill Lynch Young Entrepreneurs program.

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With our support, and some recent star power, the Principal for a Day program in Los Angeles has been rejuvenated.

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Now that Kurt Thomas plays basketball for the Phoenix Suns, we're sponsoring the 10-week financial education contest at two high schools in Arizona.

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Students participating in the New Jersey Nets/ Merrill Lynch Investment Challenge got a chance to meet the Nets' Jason Collins and tour the team's training facility.

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We were recently recognized for our commitment to the program that creates partnerships between businesses and New York's public schools.

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Merrill Lynch announced a donation of $1 milion to the National Guard Youth Foundation to fund college scholarships for graduates of the foundation's ChalleNGe program.

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Employees in New York are taking our partnership with the Principal for a Day program far beyond a 24-hour event, using personal and professional resources to benefit their schools.

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We teamed up once again with the New Jersey Nets and the Stock Market Game program to teach investing basics to young people in Newark public high schools.

Year Ahead Report for the U.S. provides investors with Merrill Lynch Research's view of the investment climate in the upcoming year.

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Did her "Wall Street with Merrill Lynch" elective class give a New York City high school student the edge over 340 competitors in a national essay contest?

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From time to time, individuals impersonate an established and reputable company with the intent of deceiving clients into volunteering personal information that can be used to steal their identity.

What’s remarkable isn’t that we devised a completely new financing solution. What’s remarkable is how we did it.

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