Philanthropy

(CSRwire) PHOENIX, AZ - alonovo.com announces that they have added new functionality supporting Fair Trade, Organics and Recommended Products to their Social Values Driven e-commerce portal.

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Project Enterprise, a Grameen Foundation partner microfinance institution based in New York, has been awarded the 2006 Program Innovations Award by the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) for their new "Access to Markets Initiative." The "Access to Markets I...

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2006--Safeway Inc.
(NYSE:SWY) formally launched its annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Month Fundraiser today with a kick-off celebration at the company's corporate headquarters. Safeway, a long-time supporter of prosta...

El Segundo, Calif. - In response to the devastation caused by the powerful earthquake in Indonesia on May 27, Mattel, Inc. today announced a cash donation of $50,000 to Save the Children. Funds will be put toward immediate relief efforts and to support the establish...

Nairobi, Kenya, May 31, 2006--In two recent studies, the World Bank Group praises Kenya's government for the advances it has made in improving the situation of women. The full economic potential of Kenyan women, however, can be further unleashed through the continued ...

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2006--For decades, Xerox Corporation has infused social principles into its business practices - and the experience has shown that corporate citizenship is not just "nice to do" but necessary to do, said Jim Firestone, ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2006-- In acknowledgement of the significant progress taking place in the African coffee growing regions, Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX) hosted an "African Coffee Celebration" at its Seattle headquarters to honor coffee farme...

NEW YORK- In a thought-provoking and paradigm-changing essay published by The Foundation Center's prestigious Philanthropy News Digest, C.T. O'Donnell II, the leader of the national children's crisis charity KidsPeace, recasts the national debate on the number-one hea...

BOSTON- A new hurricane season begins, yet tens of thousands of Katrina victims remain without permanent homes. Hundreds of thousands of the nearly one million houses destroyed remain in ruins. Today, this dire need for affordable housing in the Gulf Coast has promp...

San Francisco - Trafficking in persons is one of the most urgent human rights problems in Asia, and Cambodia is a known source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation or forced labor. Today in t...