Philanthropy

NEW YORK - Dress for Success is sending an urgent S.O.S. to women nationwide: donate one new or nearly new interview suit during the week of March 14-20th and help a low-income woman enter the workforce. "A donation of just one suit can empower a woman struggling in a...

LONDON - On Thursday 29 January 2004, HRH The Prince of Wales, President of Arts & Business and Business in the Community, will launch a programme of corporate activity which will build links between companies and their communities in France and the UK.

BOULDER, CO - Wild Oats Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: OATS), a leading natural and organic foods retailer, today announced it has become the first U.S. food retailer to offer Fair Trade Certified™ bananas. The bananas - certified by TransFair USA, the nation's only independ...

New York City - New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr., on behalf of three New York City Retirement Systems, has filed shareholder proposals with ExxonMobil, urging the company to implement the MacBride principles, promote use of renewable energy and adopt...

COLUMBUS, OH - World of Children Inc. announced today it is seeking worldwide nominations for its seventh annual Hannah Neil World of Children Awards, the world's first and most prestigious global award program promoting child advocacy.

SEATTLE, WA - Reinforcing its leadership role in the specialty coffee industry, Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) today announced the opening of Starbucks Coffee Agronomy Company in San Jose, Costa Rica. To support Starbucks rapid growth plans, the office was es...

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Moli Steinert, Director of Development for The Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company, will present its unique business model, created to deliver affordable, new medicines to people in the developing world during a virtua...

CHESTNUT HILL, MA - The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College is offering two seminars in February in Scottsdale, Arizona. The seminars are:

* Diffusing Anger, Building Trust: Communication Skills for Challenging ...

Davos, Switzerland – The World Economic Forum’s ‘no-tie policy’ has raised 20,000 Swiss Francs for UNICEF. Participants who wished to continue to wear their ties were asked at security to pay a ‘forfeit‘ of five Swiss Francs a day if they wished to continue with their...

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned the world could slide “into brute competition based on the laws of the jungle” and that the “War on Terrorism” declared by the United States in the wake of the 2001 attacks in New York and W...