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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...

CHICAGO - Lawndale community kids got a kick out of their own world-class soccer field when gold medal-winning soccer stars Mia Hamm and Briana Scurry from the U.S. Women's National Team visited Douglas Park today to dedicate a new half-million dollar FieldTurf soccer...

BEAVERTON, OR -- Instead of reporting to work today, more than 900 Oregon-based Nike employees volunteered out in the community, doing everything from helping teach P.E. classes in the schools to providing maintenance on the popular Sckavone Baseball Stadium at Westmo...