Organizations
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03-28-09
Serve America Act Passes in The U.S Senate: Generates More Opportunities to Volunteer and Serve
ATLANTA, GA. - March 27, 2009 - Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed the Serve America Act, led by Senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), by a majority of 79. The bill unanimously amended and titled by all senators as the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, will ...
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03-26-09
Solo Cup Company Joins Forces with Keep America Beautiful
STAMFORD, Conn. - March 26, 2009 - Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and Solo Cup Company announce their national sponsor partnership for KAB's Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest community improvement program.
The 2009 Great American Clean...
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03-25-09
BSR's "Beyond Monitoring" Group Enters New Phase of Global Collaboration for Sustainable Supply Chains
SAN FRANCISCO - March 25, 2009 - Building on a visionary approach to next-generation supply chain management developed over several years, Business for Social Responsibility's (BSR) ...
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03-24-09
The Voluntary Principles Expands Membership, Renews Focus on Local Implementation
Oslo, Norway - March 24, 2009 - Following its annual plenary meeting, the
Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) announced the
introduction of the "Framework for the Admission and Participation of New
Governments," two new plenary member...
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03-17-09
Net Impact and FEDEX Select Finalists for the Access Student Essay Contest
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. - March 17, 2009 - International nonprofit Net Impact and FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) announced today the finalists of the Access student essay contest designed to engage the next generation of business leaders on the issue of access. The goal of the co...
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03-17-09
Wal-Mart, AFL-CIO, and 140 Other Powerful Entities Urge President Obama, Congress to Prioritize Global Development and Foreign Assistance Reform
March 17, 2009 (WASHINGTON): Leaders from diverse communities today sent an open letter to President Obama and Congressional leaders urging them to "make modernization of our foreign assistance programs a priority"¦ [and] make global development a co-equal pillar of U.S. for...
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03-11-09
Oxfam Urges Miner to Improve Community Relations
Washington, DC - International aid group Oxfam America commends the Newmont Mining Corporation for conducting a review of its community relationship management practices and calls on the mining company to fully implement the review's recommendations to improve relationships ...
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03-11-09
Keep America Beautiful and Anheuser-Busch Award Grants to Support Local Environmental Projects
STAMFORD, Conn. March 11, 2009 - Six Keep America Beautiful (KAB) affiliates were selected from a nationwide field of more than 40 entries for the 2009 Keep America Beautiful/Anheuser-Busch Environmental Grant Program, it was announced today. The KAB/Anheuser-Busch Environme...
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03-11-09
MBA Students want Changes in their Curriculum
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. - March 11, 2009 - As business leaders struggle to guide their companies through the current economic turmoil and regain the public trust in their ability to do so, future leaders are thinking about what they are learning in business school and wondering i...
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03-10-09
The Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting
AMSTERDAM, 10 March 2009 - Global leaders from business, labor and civil society today declared their belief that the lack of transparency in the existing system for corporate reporting has failed its stakeholders. In issuing The Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and...
