Organizations
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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12-01-10
Fair Trade USA Launches First Ethical Fashion Certification Label
/PRNewswire/ - Plenty of fashion brands call themselves fair, but a label that ensures fairness from the cotton field to your hanger hasn't been on the shelves...until now. Just in time for the holidays, Fair Trade USA (formerly TransFair USA), the leading third-party certif...
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11-26-10
CARE and Full Circle Exchange Team Up to Turn Coffee & Chocolate Sales Into Poverty Relief
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - CARE has teamed with Full Circle Exchange to raise up to $1 million for CARE's global poverty-fighting programs through Full Circle Exchange's sale of co-branded coffee and chocolate. As part its "Wake Up to Justice "“ Dollar 4 Dollar" campaign, whe...
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11-17-10
Fair Trade Up, Charitable Giving Down
/PRNewswire/ - Fair Trade USA, the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States, today announces U.S. import and premium data from the first six months of 2010. Overall, Fair Trade's approach to community empowerment and sustainable development c...
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11-16-10
Investors Representing Over $15 Trillion Call for U.S., International Action on Climate Change
The world's largest global investors have a powerful message for climate negotiators in Cancun and the new U.S. Congress: take action now in the fight against global warming or risk economic disruptions far more severe than the recent financial crisis.
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11-15-10
Anheuser-Busch Marks American Recycles Day by Investing in Recycling Programs
Anheuser-Busch is pleased to join Keep America Beautiful and communities across the country in recognizing Nov. 15 as America Recycles Day. To mark this occasion, Anheuser-Busch today announced a $500,000 gift from the Anheuser-Busch Foundation to Keep America Beautiful to ...
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11-12-10
I Recycle. Do You? November 15 is America Recycles Day!
"I Recycle" is the theme of the 2010 America Recycles Day (ARD), which takes place on November 15. Millions of Americans have pledged to increase their recycling habits at home and at work over the 13-year history of ARD, a nationally-recognized initiative dedicated to encou...
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11-11-10
Best of the BSR Conference 2010 Available to All
BSR, a global business network and consultancy focused on sustainability, has made video highlights, session summaries, and survey results from last week's BSR Conference 2010 available free of charge at
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11-10-10
USAID, Walmart, Fair Trade USA and SEBRAE-Minas Gerais Announce Winners of the 2010 Fair Trade Certified Cupping Competition in Brazil
/PRNewswire/ - Winners of this week's Brazilian Fair Trade Certified coffee cupping competition have been announced. Carmo Barbosa Fernandes of the producer organization, Coopervitae, and Luciano Dazilio Delpupo of the producer organization, Pronova, won first place in the n...
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11-10-10
Keep America Beautiful Announces 2010 Great American Cleanup Results
After months of tabulating data from all 50 states, the results are in. Nearly 4 million volunteers, working on behalf of thousands of local organizations across the nation, put in 5.7 million volunteer hours enriching their communities by making them cleaner, greener and sa...
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11-05-10
SHARE: Ideas and Insights from BSR Conference 2010 Attendees and Speakers
On day two of the BSR Conference 2010, the SHARE team again captured great ideas, insights and opinions from speakers and participants. Here are the top picks from the day:
