News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the finance industry.
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04-02-15
IDB Invests $4.4 in Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the main source of multilateral financing for the Latin America and the Caribbean, committed $4.4 billion for projects that target climate change a...
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04-01-15
Export Development Canada (EDC) has been ranked first among the Corporate Knights Future 40 Responsible Corporate Leaders in Canada.
Corporate Knights is a research organization which annually assesses the sustainability of or...
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03-27-15
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) announced today the release of its 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Interim report, revealing the company has met or surpassed 10 companywide social, economic and environmental goals and is ahead of schedule or on track to meet its additio...
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03-24-15
Bank of America today announced a $1 million grant to Water.org, a global organization that provides innovative, community-led and market-based solutions that change lives through safe water and sanitation. The gra...
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03-17-15
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) launches, Wells Fargo Presents: The Untold Stories Collection (#MyUntoldsm), a social media movement dedicated to sharing personal stories that define what it means to be African...
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03-12-15
A new exchange program will strive to improve education by providing teaching professionals in both the United States and Mexico with new methods and educational approaches to help increase the quality of education for nearly 10,000 students.
The “Aula sin Fronteras” (The Classroom Witho...
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02-27-15
Over seventy percent of active individual investors (71%) describe themselves as interested in sustainable investing, and nearly two in three (65%) believe sustainable investing will become more prevalent over the next five years, according to a new survey published today by the Morgan...
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02-20-15
On Wednesday, Citi announced a landmark commitment to lend, invest and facilitate a total of $100 billion within the next 10 years to finance activities that reduce the impacts of climate change and create environmental solutions that benefit people and communities. Citi’s previous $50...
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02-12-15
As part of Western Union’s commitment to support the global communities it serves, The Western Union Foundation today announced more than US$1.8 million in 2014 fourth quarter grants were distributed to key non-governmental organiz...
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02-11-15
Food Bank For New York City announced the expansion of an innovative pilot program designed to integrate free financial empowerment services into its signature hunger relief programs, enabling more low-income families across the city to access a suite of holistic finan...