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BEAVERTON OR - United States Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, on Tuesday, January 11, announced the 2005 agenda for the Office of the Surgeon General. He called 2005 "The Year of the Healthy Child" and said that, throughout the course of the year, he will look at ...

DALLAS - Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) announced today it will increase its cash contribution to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to US$500,000 to support South Asia tsunami disaster relief. The company also announced it will match dollar-for-dolla...

DALLAS - Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) announced today it is contributing $100,000 to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to assist in meeting the urgent needs of tsunami victims in South Asia. In addition to this contribution, the company also is do...

BEAVERTON, OR - Nike, Inc. and the Nike Foundation today announced that they are collectively donating emergency cash totaling $1 million ($500,000 from Nike, Inc., $500,000 from the Nike Foundation) to four relief organizations providing aid to the victims of the lar...

WASHINGTON, DC - Today 15-year-old U.S. National Team and D.C. United soccer player Freddy Adu, along with U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and other community leaders, met with kids at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greate...

NEW YORK, NY - As the fifth edition of L'Oreal's e-Strat Challenge begins, a record number of students - over 36,000 world-wide representing 125 countries and 2190 universities - registered for a chance to be selected to play. Here in the U.S., more than 1,700 studen...

BEAVERTON, OR - In an ongoing effort to inform stakeholders of its corporate responsibility work and programs, Nike has distributed its fourth e-newsletter (www.csrwire.com/csr/reports/Nike_F...

BEAVERTON, OR - Jesse Billauer, a motivational speaker and surfer who suffered a spinal cord injury when he hit a sandbar headfirst while trapped beneath the waves in 1996, was named the 2004 Casey Martin Award recipient in a ceremony at Nike's World Headquarters toda...

AUSTIN, TX - The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) announced today that more than 20 million LIVESTRONGTM wristbands have now been purchased. The Wear Yellow Live Strong campaign, a LAF and Nike partnership, was launched last May in an effort to raise funds for LAF pr...

BEAVERTON, OR - Nike, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) today announced the appointment of Hannah Jones, director of corporate responsibility for Nike's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region for the past four years, to vice president of corporate responsibility. She succeeds Ma...