Business Briefs
Starbucks makes happy campers
Starbucks Coffee Company and the Salvation Army have teamed up to create Starbucks Happy Campers, a fundraising program that sends at-risk youth, ages 7 to 18, from surrounding local communities to summer camp. "Many inner-city children have never been outside of the city, let alone on a nature hike or camping out in a tent. Happy Campers aims to send 1,000 children out into nature," said Don Nose, one of Starbucks' regional marketing directors.
The program runs through June 18 at 650 Starbucks locations in California, Arizona and Nevada. When visiting a participating Starbucks, customers may purchase a $1, $5 or $20 donation "tent tag" from an in-store banner and receive a receipt for tax purposes. The Los Gatos Starbucks is at 630 Blossom Hill Road.
West Valley head named to board
Linda G. Salter, chancellor of the West Valley-Mission Community College District, which encompasses West Valley College in Saratoga and Mission College in Santa Clara, has been named to the Chief Executive Board of the California Community College League. She will begin her three years of service in June 2001.
The board, which meets in Sacramento nine times each year, sets the policy for the CCCL, a nonprofit, public-benefit, statewide corporation.
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