Philanthropy

NEW YORK - Alcoa will be honored this evening by the Brazil Foundation for its social investment in education in Brazil through Instituto Alcoa and Fundacao Alcoa (Alcoa Foundation) in Brazil. The Brazil Foundation, which is based in New York, is a non-profit organiza...

LOS ANGELES, CA - Bentley Prince Street is the first company this year to certify their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory with the California Climate Action Registry, thus earning the title of Climate Action Leader(TM) of 2004. Bentley Prince Street join...

PORTLAND, OR - Jobs With Justice and United Steelworkers of America representatives led a delegation today that called on Nike (NYSE: NKE) at its annual meeting to end what the organizations contend is a systematic violation of workers' fundamental rights. They criti...

Peruvian communities impacted by the largest gold mine in Latin America, Yanacocha, were victorious last night when Peru's government agreed to in effect, cancel the Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation's permit for further exploration of Mount Quilish.

LOS ANGELES - Pepperdine University will host its first annual American Spirit Awards Dinner and Scholarship Benefit on Friday, September 24 at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles. The black-tie event is being co-sponsored by Volvo Cars of North America, and the LBA is...

NEW YORK - The Catalog for Giving is hosting its 9th Annual Urban Heroes Awards Benefit on Monday, September 27th at 6 PM at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers. The Benefit honors 10 "Urban Heroes", inner city youth who, through their tenacity and hard work, overcame difficult...

WASHINGTON, DC - It is time for policymakers and other interested parties to think differently about how America and Americans interact with China. The Working Group on Corporate Social Responsibility and China, convened by the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Privat...

Capital One, Powergen, Rolls-Royce, Siemens and Toyota have all been praised for their excellent work in the community, and will be sharing their best practice during a showcase event on 12 October, sponsored by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. These companie...

ICCR's Annual Fall Event, September 23, will present Corporate Transformations, a vision of how corporations might change for the better. Dr. Vandana Shiva, noted Indian environmentalist and activist, was scheduled to be our keynote speaker. ICCR regrets that she is u...

ROCKVILLE, MD - Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the leading provider of corporate governance data services, and FactSet Research Systems Inc. (NYSE: FDS), announced today that the ISS Global Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ) database is now accessible to ...