Philanthropy

WASHINGTON, DC - Fall marks the traditional kick-off of the country's workplace giving season, when thousands of employees, corporate and otherwise, will pledge a small portion of their paychecks to support the charities and causes that matter to them. Thanks to an...

LONDON - The Responsible Competitiveness Consortium has been created to explore the strategic role of "corporate responsibility" in contributing to the competitiveness of nations and communities. Its overall goal is to increase the impact of corporate responsibility p...

Zurich - MEAG MUNICH ERGO KAG (MEAG), the asset manager of Munich Re, one of the world's largest reinsurance companies, has licensed the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes to move into the growing market for sustainability investments.

LONDON - Leaders in pioneering Cause Related Marketing programmes are hosting The Business in the Community Cause Related Marketing 2003 Annual Conference - Raising the Bar on 30 October 2003. As more companies become involved in this activity, it is important...

CORDOBA, ARGENTINA - The Instituto Agentino de Responsabilidad Social Empresaria is a private non-profit organization, located in the city of Córdoba (Argentina), that aims to become a national reference center in matters of Corporate Social Responsibility. As such, ...

NEW YORK, NY -- Students, administrators and community members of Thomas Jefferson High School in East Brooklyn, New York, woke up early on Saturday morning to gather at the school's running track where Nike officials joined them to dedicate their n...

Brussels - Ethical Corporation will hold a 2-day conference on November 19-20 2003 in Brussels which will address the improvement of labour standards and human rights in multinational corporations.

The conference on November 19-20...

ANN ARBOR, MI and WASHINGTON, DC -- Environmental nonprofit-industry partnerships are a growing and increasingly important strategy for improving environmental quality and reducing environmental burdens from new and existing products and services, according to a new r...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Life Is Sweet Enough campaign, a coalition of food companies, is thinking inside the box - the Nutrition Facts label box that is, - in a new educational campaign aimed at curbing the national obesity crisis. Coalition members asked the Fo...

The role of the private sector in achieving socio-environmental objectives is of growing importance in both developing and industrialized countries.

Nations around the world have undertaken international agreements such as the UN...