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SAN FRANCISCO CA- March 1, 2007 -The United Nations Global Compact, the City of San Francisco, the Bay Area Council and a wide array of Bay Area businesses today launched a unique partnership designed to provide meaningful actions that businesses and cities around the world ...

PARIS- February 22, 2007"“ Carbon nanotubes. Bio-medical applications of plants. Medicinal chemistry. The properties of polymers in solution. The self-organizing properties of large molecules. These are the fields of study in which five women scientists have distinguished th...

DALLAS, TX- Feb. 15, 2007 "“ CRO magazine released the 8th annual "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list, in which Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) has been recognized as 23rd out of the top 100 U.S. companies for outstanding corporate responsibility performance. The surv...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 15, 2007--General Mills, a leading global manufacturer and marketer of consumer foods products, has been named No.10 to CRO Magazine's "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list.

"Corporate social responsibility is...

PARIS- January 24, 2007 - Fetzer Vineyards has been named a 2007 Brand With A Conscience by the Medinge Group [www.medinge.org], an international think-tank focusing on branding and business. The award was presente...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2007--Although most women do not consider themselves at risk for heart disease, the reality is that almost eight times more women die of heart disease than breast cancer, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)...

NEW YORK, January 11, 2007-Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the New York business community yesterday at an event hosted by the UNA-USA Business Council for the United Nations and the Association for a Better New York. In his first speech outside of the United Nations...

January 11, 2006--The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI) today announce a formal alignment and invite signatories of each initiative to join the other.

Both initiatives are industry-led, inter...

BEAVERTON, OR., January 10, 2007 "“ Nike President and CEO Mark Parker announced today the creation of the Nike School Innovation Fund (NSIF), a five-year, $9 million commitment to help Portland, Hillsboro and Beaverton public schools. The NSIF is designed to support innova...

BEAVERTON, OR - January 9, 2007 "“ FORTUNE announced today that Nike, for the second straight year, has been named to the "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. Nike is No. 69 on the 2007 list, moving up 31 slots from the prior year. The complete list and related stories a...