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03-17-09
Non-Profits Want Your Time and Money, and You Want to Invest Wisely
Your inbox overflows with appeals for contributions, invitations to galas, and volunteer projects. In addition, if you are a business executive or professional with strategic expertise and some financial success, there are nonprofit boards that would love to have you join. ...
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03-16-09
The Coca-Cola Company Commits US$30 Million To Clean Water Projects Across Africa
ATLANTA, GA. - March 16, 2009 - The Coca-Cola Company announced today that it has committed US $30MM over the next six years to provide access to safe drinking water to communities throughout Africa through its Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN). Implemented by The Coca-Cola...
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03-13-09
Hope Community Credit Union Opens New Mississippi Coast Branch in Biloxi
BILOXI, Miss., March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Hope Community Credit Union (HOPE), a community development credit union, and its sponsor, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta (ECD), are celebrating the grand opening of a new Gulf Coast branch located at 188 Porter Avenue in Biloxi.
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03-11-09
Calvert Women’s Principles Provide Starting Point for UN Global Compact, UNIFEM Initiative on Women's Empowerment
BETHESDA, MD, - March 11, 2009 - The Calvert Women's Principles(R) (CWP) are the starting point of a project convened by the United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), entitled Advancing Women in the Global Marketplace.
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03-10-09
Gabelli to Offer Green Fund
Rye, New York, March 9, 2009 - GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL) today announced that the Board of Directors (the "Board") of The Gabelli SRI Fund, Inc. (the "Fund"), approved a broadened "green investing" focus for the Fund through the addition of sustainability criteria. T...
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03-09-09
Amid Crisis, Policymakers Embrace Mobile Banking to Reach Unbanked Poor
WINDSOR, England, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite regulatory challenges and the financial crisis, policymakers are embracing mobile banking as a means of providing financial access to the unbanked poor. More than a billion people worldwide lack bank accounts, but ...
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03-03-09
Proprietary Sustainability Research From IW Financial Now Available In IWF Workstation Or As Data Feed
PORTLAND, ME. - March 3, 2009 - Sustainability research from IW Financial incorporating more than 1,000 data points into coverage of eight major issue categories is now available to investors and asset managers as a data feed or on the IWF Workstation platform, it was announ...
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03-03-09
Securing the Harvest: New Irish Aid Project Fights Hunger in Malawi
- March 3, 2009 - The development of agriculture in Malawi is severely hampered by an inadequate supply of a basic farming necessity "“ seed. "Our biggest problem is that we cannot get enough foundation seed. Small companies are not surviving," says Felix Jumbe, Executive Se...
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02-26-09
CGAP Report Finds Interest Charges, Along With Costs and Profits, Are Declining
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Concerns that microcredit interest rates are unjustifiably high don't find much support in the available data, according to a new research report by CGAP, the global microfinance resource center.
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02-23-09
Learning Links Centers Opens Second Dallas-Based Resource Center for Underpriviledged Youth Wednesday, March 11 at 4:00pm
LOS ANGELES, CA. - February 23, 2009 - Learning Links Centers(R) (LLC), a unique socially responsible real estate investment company, has scheduled the grand opening ceremony for its second Resource Center in Dallas on Wednesday, March 11th at 4:00 PM. The new Resource Cente...
