Finance

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- April is Heifer's Pass on the Gift month, a global celebration that brings together Heifer supporters and communities around the world dedicated to ending hunger and poverty. This year, consider passing on the gif...

- March 26, 2009 - A diverse group of finance reform advocates is calling upon G20 to create a World Commission on Global Finance. "The current reform process is wholly inadequate," says group spokesperson Dr. Sanjeev Khagram Harvard Business School Wyss Scholar and World Ec...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/25/09 -- Since ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. ("ERA" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: ESR) began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange, the financial world has undergone an unprecedented transformation. Despite the adverse financial ...

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. ...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

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...