Organizations

Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB), the nation's largest nonprofit community improvement organization, has awarded Nestlé Waters North America, Inc. (NWNA) its 2010 Vision for America Award at a gala dinner in Stamford.

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UPS, the world's largest package delivery company, and HandsOn Network, the country's largest volunteer network, are joining forces to keep delivering volunteer services and relief efforts in the Gulf region, which faces a long term recovery from the oil spill and natural di...

Growing water scarcity in many parts of the United States is a hidden financial risk for investors who buy the water and electric utility bonds that finance much of the country's vast water and power infrastructure, according to a first-ever report on the issue released toda...

Sixty-eight major investors collectively managing $415 billion in assets today issued a joint statement urging a "No" vote on Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative that would halt implementation of the state's landmark, bipartisan clean energy law. The signed stat...

Sixteen-year-old student Jennifer O'Neal’s idea to create a hospital classroom for young cancer patients at Diamond Children's at University Medical Center in Tucson has been awarded the $25,000 grand prize grant...

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is launching a new office in the US, helping US companies to tell the world about their sustainability by providing support to those who produce sustainability reports. The new 'Focal Point USA', being launched in New York today (Wednesday 1...

Responding to the oil companies' financial backing for California's controversial Proposition 23, investors today announced they have filed shareholder resolutions with Occidental Petroleum (Occidental),

The businesses that build social and environmental considerations into the DNA of their companies will survive and thrive in the years to come, argues BSR President and CEO

California-based Levi Strauss & Co., eBay Inc., Symantec, Clif Bar & Company and The North Face - all internationally-known brand names - today urged California voters to reject the Proposition 23 ballot initiative. They said it would effectively kill the state's lan...

Amid rising global temperatures, population growth and resource constraints, Ceres formed a collaboration today with Nike, the Skoll Foundation and the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest public pension fund, to use their collective...