MoneyGram Foundation Joins First Book to Boost Literacy in LA

Día de los Libros celebration and book donation event designed to inspire young minds. MoneyGram, a leading global money transfer and payment services company, celebrated a literacy event in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI), a leading global money transfer and payment services company, celebrated a literacy event in Los Angeles as part of a collaboration between the MoneyGram Foundation and U.S.-based nonprofit organization First Book.

The event, timed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Día de los Libros (Children's Book Day), included a donation of $2,000 to the Exposition Park Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library for the purchase of books.  The celebration, which marks the second of a four-event series held across the U.S. in Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City, was part of a larger program that includes the donation of $20,000 in grants for books to schools across the U.S. with First Book.

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