More than 400 students in São Paulo's public school system gathered with former participants of the Global Classrooms program, undergraduate students, organizers and volunteers, including Merrill Lynch employees, for the third annual conference in Brazil.

The San Diego business community stepped up to the plate in record numbers to support public schools during the city's "Principal for a Day" event.

More than 200 Merrill Lynch employees rolled up their sleeves to paint, weed and refresh playgrounds at public schools in New York City during New York Cares Day in October.

Global Wealth Management employees of Atlanta's Buckhead Complex joined local business professionals, including executives from Coca-Cola, AirTran Airways and the Atlanta Falcons football team, for the city's ninth annual "Principal for a Day" event.

As part of Merrill Lynch's support for recovery efforts following natural disasters in Asia, the Asian Pacific, Black, LGBT, South Asian and Women's professional networks hosted a variety of fund-raising activities to benefit education projects in Myanmar and China.

Hundreds of Miami-Dade County's business and civic leaders took a break from the electoral campaign last month to head to the principal's office, where they learned what it's like to be commander-in-chief of the county's schools.

The New York City superintendent of schools, Joel Klein, told an audience of educators and the civic and business leaders who took part in the 14th annual Principal for a Day program that education should remain a top priority, especially in difficult economic times.

In Tokyo, we hosted the Carbon Disclosure Project's announcement of its survey findings, following announcements in New York and Hong Kong.

The Clinton Global Initiative designated as "Commitments to Action" two of our programs to help impoverished women in Africa, India and Latin America.

Jim Cantalupo, a financial advisor in Charlotte, North Carolina, and some friends are assisting the AIDS Orphans Education Trust in Uganda.

Our sustainability work has been acknowledged and praised by more than a half-dozen industry publications and organizations in recent months.

In 1987, Merrill Lynch became the first Wall Street firm to implement a formal supplier diversity program in the U.S.

In anticipation of Hurricane Ike’s arrival, several Merrill Lynch offices have temporarily closed.

Merrill Lynch was recently the first investment bank to execute in excess of 100 million shares in a single day on Chi-X Europe, the first live pan-European multilateral trading facility.

The Merrill Lynch Disability Awareness Professional Network and government policy makers at the State Leaders Innovation Institute discussed ways to increase employment for adults with disabilities.

This year's northern California winners of "Growing Up CEO" and Inner City 100 awards were honored at a breakfast in Oakland.

In Jacksonville, Florida, Junior Achievement named us a top supporter of public schools there, for our volunteer work with students.

We sponsored a summer business program at Baruch College for high school students of an elite New York City public school.

Students have practiced their diplomatic skills and interacted with global leaders in 18 conferences and nine countries so far this year.

Through tough times and challenging times, Merrill Lynch has served as a principal advisor to Delta Air Lines.

Merrill Lynch and Columbia Business School are developing programs for women professionals re-entering the workplace or looking to accelerate their career growth and development.

We hosted the annual Inner City 100/Growing Up CEO Summit in Boston, where 36 young entrepreneurs were honored for their achievements.

Students who won our California NFTE Business Plan competitions will travel to New York this fall for the national contest.

In New York, we hosted a 12-year-old who won an essay contest as part of an economic education program we sponsored in North Carolina.

Jason Brand, President of the Pacific Rim, made a recent visit to the China Youth Development Foundation headquarters in Beijing.

John Thain was one of seven CEOs from major U.S. companies who participated in a meeting on June 6 at the American Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss China earthquake relief and reconstruction efforts.

John Thain, chairman and CEO, joined United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations to address 2,300 students from around the world at a Model United Nations conference in New York.

John Thain, chairman and CEO, highlighted Merrill Lynch's role in United States history as he accepted the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service on May 12.

John Thain joined thousands of Merrill Lynch employees, the city's best athletes, runners and walkers alike, who turned out despite soggy weather on May 20 for the 2008 Wall Street Run & Heart Walk.

Building on our sponsorship of "Principal for a Day" in Newark, our volunteers plan to continue their partnerships with public schools.

Merrill Lynch is launching a new global equity research rating system on June 2, which is designed to provide clients with enhanced transparency into analysts’ views, greater differentiation among the equity ratings within a sector, and closer alignment between rating distributions and historical stock performance.

Merrill Lynch played an integral role in helping the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) navigate difficult markets and break the record books with a two-tranche bond issue for C$11 billion (U.S. $11 billion).

Merrill Lynch bankers in Moscow, Hong Kong and London collaborated to assist a new client, the Evraz Group, in the Russian mining giant’s historic acquisition of Chinese competitor Delong Holdings.

Throughout his 11 years in the National Basketball Association, Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher has been known as the consummate team player. Mr. Fisher recently played a key role off the court with another team: Merrill Lynch.

At nonprofit Pencil’s annual gala in New York, we celebrated education partnerships between the business community and New York public schools.

British Prime Minister Visits Merrill Lynch Partner School to Unveil Enterprise Academy

During Entrepreneurship Week, our volunteers joined celebrations of youth entrepreneurs who participate in programs we support in California.

Continuing its commitment to the National Guard Youth Foundation, Merrill Lynch supported the organization's third annual gala in Washington, D.C.

"Los Angeles is a world-class city and our youth deserve a world-class education," said the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, at a Principal for a Day luncheon hosted by Merrill Lynch on February 28.

The sixth annual "Salva un Corazon" (Save a Heart) charity golf event took place on a day of brilliant sunshine at the Lagartos Country Club in Bogotá, Colombia in mid-February.

John Thain, chairman and chief executive officer, led a delegation of senior Merrill Lynch executives who joined political, business and civic leaders from across the globe at the 2008 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

In a mandatory convertible preferred stock offering that raised $201.3 million for Hecla, Merrill Lynch acted as lead joint bookrunner for the 116-year-old company that’s known in the industry as one of the largest silver producers in North America.

In the Middle East’s largest initial public offering ever, Merrill Lynch priced a $4 billion share sale for DP World Limited as the port operator made its debut on the DIFX, Dubai’s recently launched international stock exchange.

We're helping Habitat for Humanity build two more homes in Slidell, Louisiana, to aid families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

In carrying on the legacy of tennis icon Arthur Ashe, his widow, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, is careful about the people and organizations interested in partnering with her.

Coordinators of an airlift relief mission led by the Darfur Project and supported by Merrill Lynch recently reported that they found bleak conditions in the region's largest refugee camp when they delivered supplies in December.

Guests at a Global Classrooms® summit on climate change included the United Nations secretary general and Chicago's mayor.

Corporate Services volunteers helped beautify a New York City elementary school as part of Global Philanthropy's Pacesetter Schools program

With a GWM regional managing director, Brian Riley, as event chair, we helped revive the Principal for a Day program at San Francisco's public schools.

Mexico's first lady was among the government officials, celebrities, educators, business executives and cultural leaders who joined Merrill Lynch in partnership with Sesame Workshop as they launched Panwapa, their global citizenship program, in Mexico.

More than 500 Girl Scouts in central California attended "Cookie College," a financial education program sponsored by Merrill Lynch.

Merrill Lynch recently held its tenth annual Christmas event for old-age pensioners at MLFC, in London.

More than 750 senior citizens from around the metropolitan area called friends and relatives at Merrill Lynch offices at 222 Broadway in New York City on December 25