Walmart Community Action Network

Wal-Mart Supercenter gets preliminary OK

March 12, 2010 | Category: Our Community, Recent News
Source: The Gainsville Sun [FL] | Read Original Article

Wal-Mart won preliminary approval in its seven-year bid to build a Supercenter in northwest Gainesville on Thursday night. | read more

Minnesota leads nation in veteran assistance

March 12, 2010 | Category: Our Community, Recent News
Source: Minnesota Daily [MN] | Read Original Article

With two wars happening simultaneously, the University of Minnesota has spent the last four years building its services to assist veterans seeking education post-deployment. | read more

Wal-Mart Foundation supports county’s Meals on Wheels program

March 12, 2010 | Category: Health and Wellness, Our Community, Recent News
Source: The Carlisle Independent [AR] | Read Original Article

Lonoke County Council on Aging has been awarded $13,500 through a Wal-Mart Foundation grant to the Meals On Wheels Association of America. The money will provide Lonoke County Council on Aging with much-needed home delivery vehicles, which is critical to continue serving seniors in the area. | read more

UNM to Receive $100,000 Walmart Minority Student Success Award

March 12, 2010 | Category: Our Community, Recent News
Source: UNM Today [NM] | Read Original Article

The University of New Mexico has been selected by the Institute for Higher Education Policy to receive a Walmart Minority Student Success Award—a $100,000 grant to help build on UNM’s demonstrated successes in enrolling, retaining and graduating first-generation college students. The $100,000 grant is being made possible by a $4.2 million grant to IHEP from the Walmart Foundation. | read more

Grant will help fund youth healthy lifestyle program

March 11, 2010 | Category: Our Community, Recent News
Source: The Reporter [WI] | Read Original Article

Fond du Lac County 4-H and Boys & Girls Club have received a $4,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to launch Youth Voice: Youth Choice. | read more

Grants offered

March 11, 2010 | Category: Our Community, Recent News
Source: The Maui News [HI] | Read Original Article

The Walmart Foundation's Hawaii State Giving Program currently is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations statewide for grants of at least $25,000 each. | read more

In brief: Mat-Su

March 10, 2010 | Category: Our Community, Recent News
Source: Anchorage Daily News | Read Original Article

Wasilla Area Seniors announced Monday it had received a $15,000 grant from Walmart Foundation to help the group's Meals on Wheels program buy a vehicle to continue serving home-bound seniors in the Wasilla area. | read more

$5 day returns to Orlando Science Center — this Sunday

March 10, 2010 | Category: Our Community, Recent News
Source: Orlando Sentinel | Read Original Article

Great news! The next “Walmart Foundation $5 Day” at the Orlando Science Center will be Sunday, March 14. Thanks to the generous support of the Walmart Foundation, all guests to the Orlando Science Center on that day will enjoy exhibits, films and live programs for the significantly discounted price of $5. General admission fees are usually $17 for adults and $12 for kids (ages 3-11). | read more

North Adams Planners Approve Walmart Project

March 9, 2010 | Category: Our Community, Recent News
Source: iBerkshires [MA] | Read Original Article

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — It took the personal approval of Walmart's chairman of the board, but North Adams will get a Super Center that better reflects its New England heritage. | read more

Wal-Mart gives $100,000 to the Parenting Assistance Line

March 8, 2010 | Category: Our Community, Recent News
Source: WSFA (AL) | Read Original Article

The Wal-Mart Foundation State Giving Program will present a $100,000 check to Alabama's First Lady Patsy Riley on behalf of PAL, the Parenting Assistance Line (PAL). | read more