Philanthropy

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Two of the Bay Area's premiere organizations serving social ventures are partnering for the first time to provide local, socially conscious entrepreneurs with a top-rate learning experience. Social Fusion, an incubator that helps social entrepreneu...

MONTVALE, N.J. - A survey of undergraduate and graduate students and business school deans at U.S. colleges and universities reveals that minority professors are having an astonishing impact on the career decisions of both minority and non-minority students. When ask...

CHICAGO - Employees of Chicago-based Hub International Limited (NYSE:HBG)(TSX:HBG), and its regional hubs across the United States and Canada have raised more than $100,000 through payroll deductions and innovative fundraisers for the American and Canadian Red Cross t...

TORONTO- The AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management has announced a call for contributions to two pioneering research projects on corporate citizenship. The AIC Institute is developing comprehensive databases...

PALO ALTO, CA -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today released its fifth Environment and Social Responsibility Report. The report provides detailed information about the company's environmental and social objectives, strategies, results, challenges and plans for...

SEATTLE - Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN) announced today a nationwide search to discover and reward nonprofit organizations whose innovative approaches and breakthrough solutions most effectively improve their communities or the world at large.

This periodic newsletter offers a roundup of recent highlights from Alcoa's operations worldwide. Taken individually, these summaries provide insight into Alcoa's performance in the economic, environmental, and social realms. Taken together, they reveal the breadth ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Approximately two-thirds (68%) of U.S. kids and teenagers aged 8 to 18 have followed the tsunami tragedy closely and a third (33%) have donated money to the relief, according to a national online survey recently conducted by Harris Interactive(R). W...

WASHINGTON, DC - Valentine's sales of gold jewelry in the U.S. will leave in their wake more than 34 million metric tons of waste worldwide, according to estimates from EARTHWORKS and Oxfam America, leaders of a major consumer campaign aimed at changing the way gold i...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Listening to the oohs and ahhs coming from a fourth-grade classroom at School 16 in Rochester, you'd think teacher Stacie Barry was pulling rabbits out of a hat.

There is magic going on in her classroom, but it...