ADVISORY, Aug. 17, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
What:
Volunteers of America will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square, to celebrate Operation Backpack for the 2012 school year. Operation Backpack is an annual campaign that provides new school supplies and backpacks to children who live in New York City's homeless and domestic violence shelters.
In honor of the occasion, Richard Motta, President & CEO will ring the Opening Bell.
Where:
NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio
When:
Monday, August 20, 2012 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET
Contact:
Katya Zelentsovskaya
(212) 496-4310
kzelentsovskaya@voa-gny.org
NASDAQ MarketSite:
Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com
Feed Information:
Fiber Line (Encompass Waterfront): 4463
Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West
18 mhz Lower
DL 3811 Vertical
FEC 3/4
SR 13.235
DR 18.295411
MOD 4:2:0
DVBS QPSK
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Webcast:
A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell will be available at:
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Photos:
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About Volunteers of America-Greater New York
Volunteers of America-Greater New York has more than 90 social services programs throughout the five boroughs of New York City, in Northern New Jersey, the Mid-Hudson region and Southwestern Connecticut. Award-winning programs, skilled and dedicated staff, and caring volunteers bring relief to 50,000 men, women and children every year. From helping families who are homeless secure and retain permanent housing, to preparing preschool children with developmental delays for kindergarten, to providing a full continuum of services to veterans, our programs are designed to help our neighbors in need. www.voa-gny.org
About Operation Backpack®:
Operation Backpack® is an annual Volunteers of America campaign that provides thousands of children living in NYC's homeless and domestic violence shelters with new backpacks and school supplies. It is sponsored by more than 140 corporations. The public also participates by dropping off supplies at any Duane Reade, which FedEx then delivers to Sort Week. In addition to FedEx and Duane Reade, sponsors also include Frank Crystal & Company, The Warnaco Foundation, Weeks Lerman, News Corporation, Time Warner Cable, The Wendy's Company and Van Wagner. RXR Realty has donated the former Yahoo! offices floor space for Sort Week. www.OperationBackpackNYC.org
About NASDAQ OMX:
The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $6 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)
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