News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in holding companies & conglomerates.
POSTED
10-16-01
More than 550 employees from General Electric (GE) businesses in Kansas City will participate in GE's Day of Caring on Thursday, October 18. A company-wide initiative, GE's Day of Caring involves GE businesses around the world joining together to serve their respective commu...
POSTED
10-02-00
For the second consecutive year, UPS has been named among America’s Top 16 Corporations for Women Business Enterprises (WBEs) by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s premiere third-party certification entity for businesses owned and operated...
POSTED
09-07-00
Thanks to more than 600 GE Lighting
employee volunteers, the number of inner-city youngsters who will next summer
be able to attend Camp Mueller -- a 270-acre camp in Peninsula, Ohio -- will
more than quadruple.
In a highly-planned-and-prepared on...
POSTED
06-26-00
In today’s time-starved environment, people who volunteer for a charitable organization want their time used effectively and efficiently. The UPS Foundation is taking another step to help make that experience more commonplace by tripling its investment in the Volunteer Impac...
POSTED
05-30-00
GE Power Systems' Schenectady
facility has received the federal Occupational Safety and Health
Administration's (OSHA) highest recognition for safety and health management,
the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star status.
GE Schenectady is one ...
POSTED
05-23-00
General Electric Appliances (GE)
President and CEO Larry Johnston will sign an historic energy efficiency and
water savings agreement in Washington, D.C. today with environmental groups,
energy efficiency advocates, utilities, and state governments and othe...
POSTED
05-15-00
GE Transportation Systems' Erie,
Pennsylvania, facility has marked a major employee safety and health
milestone, becoming the largest manufacturing site in Pennsylvania and one of
the ten largest worksites in the country to be inducted into the federal
POSTED
05-09-00
In a special ceremony held today at
the GE Appliances Decatur Refrigerator Plant, President and CEO Larry Johnston
presented General Electric's (GE) highest environmental, health and safety
Excellence Award in the world for best overall performance to the o...
POSTED
04-20-00
The GE Fund, the philanthropic
arm of the General Electric Company, today announced nearly $200,000 in grants
for environmental stewardship and education programs across the nation. In
addition, volunteers from GE Elfun chapters around the globe will be