Philanthropy

SAN FRANCISCO – Business for Social Responsibility is pleased to announce that Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Ventura-based Patagonia, Inc., will be a featured speaker at this year’s Business for Social Responsibility Annual Conference, November 11-14, 20...

CHESTNUT HILL, MA – The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College is encouraging companies to resist the one-size fits all approach to stakeholder relations in a new seminar:

Corporate Citizenship in the Context of Local Operations: Sustaining ...

SEATTLE, WA - Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) is pleased to announce that Mary Williams, former senior vice president of Coffee, was presented with the Costa Rica Coffee Merit Medal by the National Coffee Congress on Friday, September 12. Williams received the...

BOULDER, CO - We are enjoying the exuberant energy of more than 120 volunteers working on our Sustainable Resources 2003 conference. We have over 140 presenters scheduled. Early registrations are approaching 600 and growing quickly. We already have over 150 exhibitor...

BANGKOK, THAILAND - Over 330 representatives of Asian governments, businesses and non-government organizations (NGOs) are meeting this week in Bangkok to share experiences on how collaboration between them benefits society and their own organizations. At the second an...

NEW YORK,NY - First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles (FAME), the oldest black congregation in the city of Los Angeles, has joined forces with pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer Inc, to host "Fighting HIV through R&B", a novel HIV testing program that of...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the United States, today announced that CEO Victoria Hale, Ph.D., has been named a Leadership Foundation Fellow for 2003-2004. Hale is one of 14 women selected from a ...

BANGKOK, THAILAND - Fourteen businesses are finalists in the first Asian Corporate Social Responsibility Awards, to be presented on September 19 in Bangkok, during the Gala Dinner of the Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility. The Awards, presented by the As...

BALTIMORE, MD — The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) and Nike today announced they are re-lacing their partnership to recycle used athletic shoes, expanding the Nike Reuse-A-Shoe program to every state in the continental United States. The announ...

Beijing, China -- Special Olympics today announced a program in China and a partnership with Nike to reach 6,000 new athletes, increasing the number of Special Olympics athletes in this country to 186,000. This program is part of a five-year plan to...