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Dawn Renee Salon & Day Spa is teaming up with SHELTER, inc of Contra Costa County to offer free haircuts to Contra Costa County residents who have lost their homes and jobs due to the troubling economy. On Monday, April 6th, from 9 am to 6 pm, Dawn Renee Salon and Day Spa will open its doors to dozens of displaced residents and offer hair cuts, shampoos, child care, donated food and donated toiletries.
A third Panera Bread experimental cafe offers people hard-hit by economics a good meal without a fixed price. Now, after the third donations-only restaurant proved itself a success, the verdict is in: People are good and willing to pay their fair share to help others.
Just one month after the President signed the Small Business Jobs Act, the U.S. Small Business Administration has supported nearly $3 billion in loans to more than 5,000 small businesses across the country. The White House estimates that the $505 million provided in the Jobs Act will support about $14 billion in small business loans. The Jobs Act also includes $12 billion in tax credits targeted specifically to small businesses and a $30-billion lending fund that will help small, community banks increase their lending to local small business owners and entrepreneurs.
IBM has decided to donate a new automatic portable software device for Arabic-English translation to help US forces in Iraq. The donation, worth approximately $45 million, was made in honor of an employee's son who was badly wounded while serving there.
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