Philanthropy

Boise, Idaho - Albertson's Inc. (ABS:NYSE) announced today that it has been named this year's winner of the prestigious "Promise to the Earth" award from The National Arbor Day Foundation. The company was presented with the award Saturday, April 30, 2005, at the Foun...

ROTTERDAM - Nowadays, corporate social responsibility is increasingly gaining interest and is an item on every management agenda. Still there was no postgraduate program that enabled managers and auditors to specialise in this area. The Erasmus University Rotterdam (E...

The Kiyofumi Sakaguchi Mathematics Library, a gift provided by The Prudential Foundation given to Lebanon Valley College in memory of Kiyofumi Sakaguchi, former president and CEO of Prudential International Insurance Group and executive vice president of Prudential Fi...

TEMPE, AZ - Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) announced today a $1.5 million commitment over three years to Jumpstart, a national non-profit early education organization that helps preschoolers in low-income communities enter school with the skills they need t...

ZURICH - SAM today announced that it has licensed the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) to Credit Agricole Asset Management Japan Ltd. The licensee will use the DJSI World as a universe for a fund to be launched tomorrow. The new product will be distri...

LONDON - The largest gathering in the UK of business delegates meeting to explore the emerging challenges in corporate responsibility will take place at Business in the Community's two day Annual Conference on the 5-6 July in London.

ESPOO, FINLAND/BALTIMORE, MD - Nokia and the International Youth Foundation (IYF) announced the five-year anniversary of their global youth development initiative called "Make a Connection" and the addition of the Netherlands as the 20th country joining the program. ...

LONDON - "Required reading in Downing Street" was howThe UK Times described Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, a new report published by the Shell Foundation. Using a series of case studies in Africa and India, the Shell Foundation explains how multination...

CHICAGO -- The Association Forum Foundation is very pleased to announce the expansion of Association Workforce Diversity Scholarships from four to six, beginning with this year's class. The increase in scholarships is made possible by a generous gift of $10,000 from F...

NEW YORK, NY - The Institute for Sustainable Communication (ISC) has concluded a successful pilot of the Responsible Enterprise Print (REP) program for securities firm Piper Jaffray & Co.

The REP pilot program identified oppo...