HISD gifts: Rockets tickets, phones, fishing trip
Houston Chronicle - 0 KB- Found: 2010-07-27, 06:49 GMT
The gifts and offers to Houston ISD employees flowed: fishing on a luxury yacht, tickets to Rockets playoff games, free cell phones. Technology vendors vying for business in the Houston Independent School District peppered staff, including former Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra, with perks over several years, according to a federal investigation.

Gifts from above: The Lake Elmo Inn's tradition of exchanging a drink for an ornament
Stillwater Gazette - 0 KB- Found: 3 hours ago
The Lake Elmo Inn's Christmas trees begin every year naked. The lonely twinkle lights that adorn their bare branches do little to help them stand out against the holiday decorations that will embellish the remainder of the restaurant once the season begins.

3 Ways to Promote Planned Gifts
The Chronicle of Philanthropy - 0 KB- Found: 2010-07-28, 18:08 GMT
How you promote planned gifts is just as important as identifying and cultivating people who want to make a charitable bequest in their wills. The result can be extraordinary, as The Nature Conservancy , the big environmental group in Arlington, Va., has learned.

Clark's Hallmark Reader's Choice to buy gifts
The Record and Herald News - 0 KB- Found: 21 hours ago
Readers choose Clarks Hallmark as best place to buy gifts

Gifts cost Houston schools funding
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - 0 KB- Found: 2010-07-28, 06:10 GMT
HOUSTON (AP) Technology vendors bidding for business with the Houston school district gave free tickets to Rockets playoff games, free cell phones and a fishing trip on a yacht to district employees, a law firm hired by the district has found.

Artwork shares program participants Creative Gifts
North Penn Life - 0 KB- Found: 17 hours ago
With strips of tape and layers of acrylic paint, individuals in Peaceful Livings Creative Gifts program produce masterpieces.

Housewarming gifts
West Cumberland Times & Star - 0 KB- Found: 7 hours ago
FLOOD-HIT Cockermouth residents who have moved back into refurbished properties have been given a £50 housewarming present from the towns Round Table.

Gal pal of generous Viacom boss says she got nothing
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 0 KB- Found: 7 hours ago
Viacom Inc executive chairman Sumner Redstone's news-making gifts to young women are proving irksome to his longtime lady friend, Christine Peters.

Gifts cost Houston schools funding
KXAN 36 Austin - 0 KB- Found: 2010-07-27, 17:17 GMT
A federal investigation found that that technology vendors trying to get business in the state's largest school district gave perks over several years.

Gifts cost Houston schools funding
The Daily Sentinel - 0 KB- Found: 2010-07-27, 15:20 GMT
A recently released memo from the Houston school district's outside law firm details the gift-giving allegations that cost taxpayers an $850,000 fine and students tens of millions of dollars in technology.