Philanthropy

SANTA CLARA, CA - National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) announced today that it will achieve 100 percent lead-free production by the end of June 2006. As a result, all of the company's integrated circuits (ICs) will be sold in lead-free packages.

WASHINGTON, DC - Business Strengthening America (BSA) and the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network announce BSA's continued sponsorship of the Corporate Volunteer Council (CVC) Partners Program - a national association of CVCs. During its...

The Next Sustainability Wave
Building boardroom buy-in

by Bob Willard
Foreword by Hunter Lovins

"Bob Willard has done a great service for all of us with an interest in the future of busine...

MEDIA ADVISORY

In a world in which increasing attention is being paid to the impact business activities have on the health of our communities and our biosphere, Cradle to Cradle Design is being embraced as a powerful new framework...

We are pleased to announce that SAI will be convening its 7th Annual Conference, Beyond Compliance: Innovative Strategies for Responsible Sourcing on September 19, 2005 at the Harvard Club in New York City.

At the 7th Annua...

WALTHAM, MA - The Board of Directors of the Ethics Officer Association (EOA) has announced Keith T. Darcy as Executive Director. The Ethics Officer Association is the largest organization of ethics and compliance officers in the world, with more than 1,000 members in ...

NEW YORK, NY - Oxford University Press is partnering with BookAid International to ask Americans to donate their old dictionaries to charity.

Anyone who donates a good, usable English dictionary to BookAid will receive a $10 rebat...

SANTA CLARA, CA - Intel Corporation's ongoing commitment to transparency and accountability is evident in its fourth annual report on corporate social responsibility efforts and results. The goal of the recently released Global Citizenship report, titled "Continuity a...

BOSTON, MA - Even as society and government agencies put greater and greater demands on nonprofits to provide needed services and fill other gaps there is little or no understanding of the way in which the nonprofit sector is hamstrung by the "irrational" and often "t...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new hyper-interactive blog launches today as the world's premiere online water cooler and conference room for business development aimed towards eradicating poverty. The "NextBillion.net - Development through Enterprise" blog, created by the World...