News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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03-04-11
With state and local budgets stretched to their limits, a growing volunteer movement is helping to fill the gap by engaging individuals in community service. National nonprofit Keep America Beautiful (KAB) is encouraging people of all ages to rekindle their pride in their co...
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02-28-11
Today, leading companies and organizations around the world recognize International Corporate Philanthropy Day (ICPD), an international advocacy day, now in its 8th year, which mobilizes the business community to share best practices, develop partnerships, a...
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02-25-11
The Volunteerism ROI Tracker, a turnkey social/business impact measurement and benchmarking initiative for employee volunteer programs, will be expanding in 2011 with the generous support of the AT&T Foundation.
Launched last year by HandsOn...
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02-23-11
An AmeriCorps alum's online petition urging the U.S. Congress to save the program has now been signed by more than 80,000 supporters. And there are hundreds of alumni scheduled to visit Members of ...
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02-23-11
Net Impact today announced it is teaming with xpedx, International Paper's North American distribution business, to host a student competition promoting ongoing sustainable business practices in xpedx's supply chain. As part of the competition, MBA students from the Net Impa...
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02-15-11
/PRNewswire/ - U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Green Mountain Coffee®, and Fair Trade USA today announce a new partnership to promote biodiversity, conservation, and environmental education among Brazil's coffee growing communities, as biodiverse ecosystem...
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02-14-11
BSR today published "Protecting Human Rights in the Digital Age," a new report describing the evolving freedom of expression and privacy risks faced by information and communications technology (ICT) companies and how these r...
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02-10-11
A growing number of graduates and working professionals want to use their business careers to make a difference in social and environmental issues. But what are these professionals to do when faced with the reality that there simply aren’t enough corporate social responsibil...
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02-09-11
RecycleMania springs back into action as college campuses compete to see who can reduce, reuse and recycle the most on-campus waste. For an eight-week period, beginning in early February and running parallel to the NCAA basketball tournament, colleges and universities take p...
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02-02-11
Alcoa Foundation joins forces with national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful (KAB) to educate the next generation of recyclers through RecycleMania, an intense university-based competition that runs from February 6 to April 2, 2011. Rounding out the partnership are additiona...