Verizon has waived text messaging fees for text-to-donate campaigns launched by several nonprofit organizations and established an employee disaster-relief campaign with a 2:1 match from the…

For the second consecutive year, Animal Planet’s animal advocacy initiative, R.O.A.R. (Reach Out. Act. Respond.) is launching an eight-week matching campaign to raise funds for participating R.O.A.R. charities. Beginning September 1, the seven participating nonprofits have an opportunity to receive dollar for dollar matching contributions on their consumer donations up to $120,000 from Animal Planet. The donations from R.O.A.R. come from proceeds of Animal Planet licensed products and…

MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) today announced that Company employees in 2012 have pledged $4.7 million to nonprofit organizations and programs serving the communities in which it operates in Nevada, Michigan and Mississippi. Over the next year, more than 86 charities will benefit from grants--and hundreds more from cash and payroll donations--distributed by The MGM Resorts Foundation, the philanthropic arm of MGM Resorts employees.

Celebrating its 10^th anniversary,…