When it comes to giving back to the community, Kimberly-Clark employees are especially good at it.
The company's philanthropic arm, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation, has distributed more than $46 million to more than 2,300 students in the US and Canada since its inception in 1993, with each student receiving up to $20,000 for full-time study at an accredited college or university, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Among the recipients of this year's grants: four high school seniors in Wisconsin who will each receive $1,000 to study journalism at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, the Journal Sentinel reports.
The recipients of last year's grants: four high school seniors in Minnesota who will each receive $500 to study journalism at the University of Minnesota-St.
Paul, the Minneapolis-St.
Paul Pioneer Press reports.
And last year's winners: four high school seniors in California who will each receive $500 to study journalism at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The grants are part of the foundation's efforts to "advance the well-being of 1 billion people in underserved global communities by 2030," according to its website.
A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
Government efforts to promote entrepreneurship always fail because they focus on building science parks and top-down clusters.