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Article: MasterCard International Sponsors National Center for Missing & Exploited Children; Sponsorship Builds on MasterCard's Commitment to the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography.
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- Business Wire
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- June 5, 2006
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PURCHASE, N.Y. & WASHINGTON -- MasterCard International and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(R) (NCMEC) announced today that MasterCard has become a corporate sponsor of NCMEC. Through its contribution of $100,000, MasterCard will help advance NCMEC's mission of finding missing children and preventing child sexual exploitation.
"Our sponsorship of NCMEC is an extension of our commitment to helping fight the exploitation of children and dissemination of child pornography on the Internet," said Joshua Peirez, group executive, global public policy, MasterCard. "Supporting NCMEC is a responsibility that MasterCard takes very seriously and we are ...