Organizations

Oakland, CA and New York, NY, - For the second year in a row, TransFair USA, the nation's only independent, third-party certifier of Fair Trade products, was named a Social Capitalist Award winner by Fast Company magazine and the Monitor Group. TransFair USA is one of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attracting over 1,100 executives, economists, analysts, academics, NGO and public policy leaders from 43 countries, the 2005 Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Conference, "Questioning Assumptions -- Changing Frameworks," held in Washington, DC, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) has released a new report that reviews how well the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Economic Performance Indicators have been applied by 33 companies, including GE, McDonald's, Novo Nordisk, Shell, Starbucks a...

Stamford, Conn. - Keep America Beautiful, Inc. is pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Graffiti Hurts® National Award competition. Innovative and results-focused graffiti prevention programs in three cities took top honors:

NEW YORK - In response to growing demand from its 200 member companies, the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC) announced today the creation of the first measurement system for business and AIDS -- a new Best Practice AIDS Standard for corporate HIV/AIDS progr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Audio recordings of 35 of the Plenary and Breakout sessions from the 2005 Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Conference, "Questioning Assumptions -- Changing Frameworks," held in Washington, DC, Nov. 1-4, have been released on CD.

Washington, DC--Jewelers of America, the nation's largest retail jewelry trade association, sent a letter to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert on Monday night urging him to strip controversial 'mining' provisions from the House budget reconciliation bill. The letter...

NEW YORK - At its annual meeting on October 26, the Board of Directors of Mitsubishi International Corporation Foundation (MICF) approved $342,500 in new grants, including a grant of $250,000, payable over 4 years, to Forest Trends; $80,000, payable in two equal annua...

BOSTON -- Ceres today announced it has formed new partnerships with state environmental agencies in Georgia and Washington to expand participation in its new Facility Reporting Project aimed at improving sustainability reporting and performance at individual facilitie...

Oakland, CA - TransFair USA joins Oxfam America in welcoming the McDonald's Corporation's decision to sell Fair Trade Certified coffee exclusively in 658 of its restaurants across New England and Albany, N.Y. starting November 1, 2005. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (...