Philanthropy

LONDON - Corporate responsibility (CR) is the new imperative in business. Forty-eight percent of the world¹s largest 100 companies now publish social and environmental reports, and the number is rising every year.

CR is getting more attention in the board...

HOUSTON - Clinicians have been able to reduce mortality rates in HIV positive children from 15 to 3 percent in the largest group of children treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in any single center worldwide, according to a paper published in the...

Pennington, NJ - AXcess News (www.axcessnews.com) released a story uncovering the droves of investors flocking to alternative energy stocks Friday following a host of news stories that fueled t...

San Francisco - Three years after the destruction of the World Trade Center, lower Manhattan is being rebuilt embracing sustainable building principles. This is made possible through a stakeholder engagement process occurring on a mammoth scale. Dev...

The event, featuring companies and experts from around the world, will focus on the major issues companies have said they wish to hear about and discuss in off-the-record workshops and case study sessions.

More than 200 delegates from corporations around the world will gather in Kuala Lumpur this September to discuss how they can make a more significant impact on the societies and communities in Asia in which they operate at a time when countries in t...

PITTSBURGH - Alcoa Foundation today announced that it has awarded a $250,000 three-year grant to the Fund for Public Schools to support the NYC Leadership Academy, which was established in 2003 to recruit and train outstanding principals to lead New...

HALIFAX - MedMira Inc. ("MedMira") (TSXVenture: MIR, NASDAQ:MMIRF), the market leader in rapid flow-through diagnostic technology, announced today that it has donated MiraWell™ Rapid HIV Tests to the Hopes and Dreams Team for use in Kenya at an orph...

SAN ANTONIO - SBC Communications Inc. today contributed a $500,000 SBC Foundation grant to launch a national campaign to raise funds for the Dallas-based Women's Museum, the nation's only comprehensive women's museum dedicated to chronicling the liv...

Details:
Wednesday 13th October from 1.00 - 4.00pm (please note it was necessary to change the time from the morning to the afternoon because the Under Secretary of State has to attend Parliament in the morning).