News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in organizations.
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07-30-02
Washington, D.C. - Is the scandal-fueled stock market slump turning more Americans into socially responsible investors? According to Lipper data released today by the nonprofit Social Investment Forum, socially and environmentally responsible mutual funds experienced positiv...
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06-27-02
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) announced new features and content on its website, www.bsr.org, a global point of access for information and resources on corporate social responsibility. The redesigned website offers BSR members and the g...
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05-21-02
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) today unveiled Labor Law, a unique Internet database of labor law reports and supply chain compliance resources. Compiled from hundreds of primary sources, Labor Law will provide users with independently ve...
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04-22-02
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international sustainability reporting institution that was formally inaugurated at a United Nations ceremony on 4 April 2002, has announced that its permanent Secretariat headquarters will be opened later th...
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04-18-02
WASHINGTON, DC - There is mounting evidence that failure to respond to the risks posed by climate change could result in multi-billion dollar losses for U.S. businesses and investment portfolios, and this failure could represent a breach of fiduciary duty on the part of corp...
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04-04-02
NEW YORK-The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international sustainability reporting institution, was formally inaugurated at a luncheon attended by over 200 guests at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on 4 April 2002. The GRI was convened in 1997 by the ...
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03-15-02
Social Accountability International (SAI) announced today that more than 100 facilities are now certified to the SA8000 humane workplace standard. Just three years after the first certificate was issued, there are now 118 facilities employing more than
70,000 workers t...
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02-28-02
BOSTON, USA - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international sustainability reporting institution, will be formally inaugurated at a luncheon event to be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on 4 April 2002 at 13:00. Incubating under the auspice...
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01-24-02
Boston, USA - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), convened to develop an internationally accepted framework for sustainability reporting for businesses and other organisations, announced today the appointment of fourteen members to its first Board of Directors. This annou...
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11-28-01
The market may be in a slump, but socially responsible investing is growing at a strong rate. Assets in socially screened investment portfolios under professional management rose by more than a third from 1999 to 2001 to top the $2 trillion mark for the first time ever, acc...