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12-29-08
SPRINGFIELD, MA. - December 29, 2008 - This week CSRwire welcomed ASSET4, Fairgreentrade.com, Financial Times, Hormel Foods Corporation, and Chloregy.
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12-22-08
GAITHERSBURG, Md. - December 22, 2008 - Sodexo, a leading foodservice and facilities management company, organized a national food drive with 600 of its clients and collected nearly 370,000 pounds of food in November through its annual "Cans Across America" program. In its t...
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12-16-08
GAITHERSBURG, Md. - December 16, 2008 "“ As economic hard times shrink college savings accounts for many Americans, the Sodexo Foundation has increased the amount of its STOP Hunger Scholarships to $5,000. The Foundation will begin accepting applications on January 1,...
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12-15-08
Colorado Springs,Colo. - December 15, 2008 - While today's teens are learning the Three "Rs" of Reading, Writing and Arithmetic in school, new research shows that many are justifying violence to practice a fourth -Revenge. In a youth culture where violence is often believed ...
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12-15-08
SPRINGFIELD, MA. - December 15, 2008 - This week CSRwire welcomed Bentall Lp., Futureye Pty Ltd.,Golite, HRIA Steering Committee, Unitus, Rogue Element, jhr(Journalist for Human Rights), Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, Association Partnership for Corporate Soc...
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12-12-08
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. - December 11, 2008 - With a recession eating holes in everyone's pockets, this Christmas is a critical time to make volunteering a priority -- and VolunteerMatch is your resource for making change, helping others, and spreading good cheer.
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12-11-08
ARMONK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/11/08 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) was today
named the top company for climate change strategy and practices, in a report released by the Ceres investor coalition. The report issued today analyzes climate change governance practices at 63 of the...
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12-10-08
ARMONK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/10/08 -- The landmark project between IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Washington to develop new strains of rice that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields is now set to analyze data on the genes -- three months ah...
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12-08-08
Cleveland, OH - Following a competitive selection process, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) recently entered into an agreement with BrownFlynn to begin the process of becoming their U.S.-based GRI Certified Training Partner. Once certified, BrownFlynn can begin to offer...
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12-08-08
BOSTON, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/08/08 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and researchers from Harvard University are launching a new World Community Grid project to discover organic materials to create a more efficient and lower cost solar cell. The path-breaking effort will use idle com...