Organizations

London, UK - AccountAbility, the professional institute for social and ethical accountability, is delighted to announce a series of new appointments to its London office.

Helen Campbell joins Accountability as a Senior Researcher,...

BOSTON, MA - The nation’s oldest and largest anti-hunger movement, Oxfam’s Fast for a World Harvest, marks its 30th anniversary this Thanksgiving season. Over the last three decades, more than a million people have participated in hundreds of annual Fast...

London, UK - A new website carrying the latest news and information about the commercial rationale for corporate responsibility from the UK and around the world goes live today.

The site,

SAN FRANCISCO – Van Jones, founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Business for Social Responsibility Annual Conference, November 11-14, 2003 in Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two leading organizations have launched ClimateBiz.com, a free Web site to help companies address climate change in a way that aligns environmental responsibility with business success.

Los Angeles – More than a dozen manufacturers, retailers and shipping companies today announced the Clean Cargo Environmental Performance Survey for shippers to gauge their carriers’ environmental management performance and address the enviro...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- A new report, Strengthening Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains, issued by Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), and the Copenhagen office of PricewaterhouseCo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Socially responsible investing (SRI) in the United States remained robust during 2001 and 2002, even as the rest of the investment world was stagnant. Assets in socially screened portfolios climbed to $2.15 trillion in 2003, an increase over the $...

Washington, D.C. - What is Proxy Access?
On Oct. 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published proposed rules allowing shareholders a new, but severely limited ability to propose nominees for corporate boards. Earlier this year, the S...

WASHINGTON, DC - Fall marks the traditional kick-off of the country's workplace giving season, when thousands of employees, corporate and otherwise, will pledge a small portion of their paychecks to support the charities and causes that matter to them. Thanks to an...