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03-26-09
Twisted Limb Paperworks Receives EILEEN FISHER Business Grant for Woman Entrepreneurs
- March 26, 2009 - Twisted Limb Paperworks (www.twistedlimbpaper.com) of Bloomington, IN, a sustainable paper making company is one of five recipients of EILEEN FISHER's fifth Annual Business Grant Program...
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03-26-09
Union Bank Awards $25,000 to Carson Scholars Fund
LOS ANGELES, CA - March 26, 2009 - Union Bank, N.A., announced today that it presented the Carson Scholars Fund with a $25,000 award to support the organization's scholarship program. Union Bank president and CEO, Masaaki Tanaka, presented the award check to Benjamin S. Cars...
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03-26-09
Over US$5 Trillion of Sustainable Investing Funds Available to Relaunch the Global Economy
Investors have allocated over $5 trillion to sustainable investing strategies, which could form the core of an economic recovery strategy. In their new book Sustainable Investing, Cary Krosinsky and Nick Robins highlight that sustainable investing...
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03-26-09
Finance Stakeholders Call for"¨World Commission on Global Finance
- March 26, 2009 - A diverse group of finance reform advocates is calling upon G20 to create a World Commission on Global Finance. "The current reform process is wholly inadequate," says group spokesperson Dr. Sanjeev Khagram Harvard Business School Wyss Scholar and World Ec...
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03-26-09
Media Impact releases 2009 Impact Data on Latin America Radio Programming
March 26, 2009 - PCI Media Impact, a not-for-profit organization with over 25 years of experience inspiring global social change through storytelling and broadcast media, has selected eight coalitions of grassroots organizations for the 2009 My Community progra...
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03-26-09
Members of Congress Applaud TIAA-CREF Sudan Divestment Decision
NEW YORK, NY - March 26, 2009 - U.S. Representatives Joseph Crowley (D-NY) and Melvin L. Watt (D-NC) have each issued statements applauding today's announcement by TIAA-CREF that it will intensify pressure on companies that maintain business relations with the Sudanese gover...
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03-26-09
Marriott Celebrates Earth Hour- Turns Out Lights at Hundreds of Hotels Worldwide on March 28
Bethesda, Maryland, USA. - March 26, 2009 - In demonstration of its commitment to the environment, Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) announced today that it will officially participate in Earth Hour 2009, a global climate event organized by the World Wildlife F...
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03-26-09
TIAA-CREF Announces Escalation in Efforts to Avoid Investments in Companies with Ties to Genocide
BOSTON, MA. - March 26, 2009 - In an important victory for the cause of genocide-free investing, Investors Against Genocide has announced it withdrew its shareholder proposal from the proxy ballot for TIAA-CREF's July shareholders' meeting. This announcement follows ...
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03-26-09
Statement by TIAA-CREF Announcing Escalated Effort
Today TIAA-CREF announces a new escalated phase in our continuing campaign to pressure portfolio companies that maintain business relations with the Sudanese government to cease those relations or attempt to end genocide and ease suffering in Darfur. We plan to intensify pre...
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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...
