Belk contributes $20.9mn to charitable causes in FY14

15 Apr '14

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• $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.

• $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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