• $200,000 to Major League Baseball's Civil Rights Game in Atlanta, Ga.
• More than $170,000 to support the work of Junior Leagues throughout the Southeast.
Belk, Inc. has announced that the company, and its associates, customers and vendors contributed more than $20.9 million to local communities in the #
• $125,000 in technology grants to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools as a part of Belk's Rockin' the Belk Bowl contest.
• $100,000 to the American Red Cross to support disaster relief efforts.
• $50,000 to support the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Scholarship Fund.
Key impacts of Belk's giving in fiscal year 2014 include:
• The Belk Mobile Mammography Center screened more than 4,500 women in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and detected 21 cases of cancer.
• Through Belk's 125 Days of Service, more than 10,000 Belk associates provided 304 makeovers to Title One schools across the company's footprint.
• Belk Service Learning Challenge winning projects:
• Opened a new walking path in Jackson, Miss. Winning school: Main Street Restart Center
• Held a job fair and provided resources to Karen immigrants in Raleigh, N.C. More than 16 immigrants found jobs as a direct result of the students' efforts. Winning school: Neuse Christian Academy
Belk also supported almost a dozen fashion shows to raise money in for charities in local communities, as well as numerous fundraising events at store level.
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