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XILINX AND MAYOR GONZALES URGE MORE CORPORATE SUPPORT
OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY WALK FOR AIDS 2000
Walk raises annual fundraising goal to $1 million
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31, 2000- Xilinx,
Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) and San José Mayor Ron
Gonzales issued a challenge today to the high technology community
of Silicon Valley urging
increased support of the Santa
Clara County Walk For AIDS. The Walk recently increased its
annual fundraising goal to $1 million this year, up from $400,000
last year.
To help meet this goal, Walk red ribbon sponsor Xilinx and Mayor
Gonzales are co-hosting a
Walk kick-off rally on Thursday, August 3 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00
p.m. at the Xilinx San José
campus, 2050 Logic Drive near Union Avenue and Highway 85. Companies
that want to send
representatives to the kick-off rally should RSVP by calling
(408) 879-6908 or by email at
walk@best.com.
The kick-off rally will bring together corporate, community and
nonprofit leaders to identify ways
to increase funding and participation in the Walk. This year’s
Walk honorary co-chairs Mayor
Gonzales and Wim Roelandts, president and CEO of Xilinx, recently
sent a letter to over 400
Silicon Valley CEOs urging their companies to sponsor the Walk
and inviting them to attend the
kick-off rally.
“I urge my colleagues to support and participate in a cause that
makes an extraordinary impact
towards local education and prevention of this deadly disease,”
said Roelandts. “By working
together, we can help the Walk reach its fundraising goal of
$1 million and build a Walk that truly
reflects the success of Silicon Valley.”
"The Walk for AIDS is a walk for a better life for people in our
community," said Mayor Ron
Gonzales. "The more successful the Walk is, the more we
can do more to treat and prevent
HIV/AIDS, and to improve the quality of life for people and their
families who must bear the
burden of this terrible disease."
The Walk benefits nine local organizations providing HIV/AIDS
services and prevention
education to more than 30,000 Santa Clara County residents annually.
“The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported
that HIV infection rates and
risky behavior on the part of youth has increased,” said Jason
da Cunha, executive director of the
Walk For AIDS. “Now more than ever, we must aggressively
support local education and
prevention programs to keep infection rates down.”
Walk For AIDS 2000 will be held on Sunday, October 22 at 9:00
a.m. in downtown San José.
For more information, call (408) 451-WALK, email at walk@best.com
or
on the web at
www.walkforaids.org
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading innovator of complete programmable logic
solutions, including advanced
integrated circuits, software design tools, predefined system
functions delivered as cores, and
unparalleled field engineering support. Founded in 1984 and headquartered
in San Jose, Calif.,
Xilinx invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and
fulfills more than half of the world
demand for these devices today. Xilinx solutions enable customers
to reduce significantly the time
required to develop products for the computer, peripheral, telecommunications,
networking,
industrial control, instrumentation, high-reliability/military,
and consumer markets. For more
information, visit the Xilinx web site at www.xilinx.com.
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