11 Winners Selected for 2006 Mayor's Business Recognition Awards

11 Winners Selected for 2006 Mayor's Business Recognition Awards

BALTIMORE, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine Baltimore-area businesses, a regional association and a nonprofit program have been selected as winners of the 2006 Mayor's Business Recognition Awards for civic leadership and outstanding community service, the Greater Baltimore Committee announced today.

Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley will present the awards during luncheon ceremonies on December 15, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore. The 32nd annual business awards program is an initiative of the Greater Baltimore Committee and the Baltimore Development Corporation.

This year's award winners range from major corporations whose managers and employees provide a wide variety of community service to a self-development and training program for inner-city girls.

Winners of the 2006 Mayor's Business Recognition Awards are:

-- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, for an innovative preventative care
initiative conducted in hair care salons and barber shops.

-- CitiFinancial, for volunteer involvement at Lakewood Elementary
School and for financial support of the St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center.

-- Comcast, for "Comcast Cares Day," where 250 employees volunteered to
paint classrooms and make other improvements to Garrison Middle School
and Patterson High School.

-- Enterprise Rent-A-Car, for employee volunteers and financial support
for projects to provide affordable housing to low-income and disabled
populations.

-- GirlsBelieve, Inc., for its self-development and "womanhood training"
for inner-city middle school and high school girls.

-- Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors/Greater Baltimore Board of
Realtors Charitable Foundation, for support of eight community-
improvement projects involving more than 450 volunteers combined.

-- Holly Poultry, for donating and distributing, without fanfare over
the past 10 years, prepared food to numerous humanitarian organizations
throughout the city enabling tens of thousands to be fed.

-- Kaiser Permanente, for its "Bridge Plan" outreach program that
provides health care coverage to adults and families in need.

-- M&T Bank, for supporting a program to help low-income youth build
academic, entrepreneurial, and life skills, and for mentoring Digital
Harbor High School students in a citywide business plan competition.

-- Parsons Steel Rule Dies, Inc., for its commitment to hiring employees
who need help. Seventy-five percent of the firm's employees are ex-
convicts or addicts in rehab.

-- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, for achieving 80 percent employee
participation for a community service day where 164 volunteers performed
service that included aiding special needs children, cleaning the zoo,
painting classrooms, and counseling newly-employed homeless men.

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Source: Greater Baltimore Committee

CONTACT: Gene Bracken of Greater Baltimore Committee, +1-410-727-2820,
cell: +1-410-274-0287

Web site: http://www.gbc.org/

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