Organizations

BOSTON --Former Vice President Al Gore and Duke Energy CEO Paul Anderson are among the keynote speakers at the upcoming Ceres annual conference on April 5-6, 2006 at the Oakland Marriott City Center in Oakland, CA.

The 10th annual conference, Accelerating ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The deadline for the 2006 Awards for Excellence in Workplace Volunteer Programs is January 25, 2006. Nomination forms are available by visiting www.pointsoflight.org/awards/workplace.

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...