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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2006--Dole Packaged Foods Company, a division of Dole Food Company, announced today that its fruit processing factory in Hua Hin, Thailand has been certified to the Social Accountability International SA 8000 work place and ...

VERNON HILLS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2006--As a national corporate sponsor of the 2006 Marine Toys for Tots campaign, Learning Resources, Inc., a manufacturer of hands-on educational products and toys for the home and classroom, will match one-for-one its online shop...

West Caldwell, N.J. - Vitaquest International, a national nutritional supplement company, today announced that it has pledged $60,000 in product and financial contributions to Vitamin Angels, a non-profit organization designed to fight malnutrition and childhood blindness ar...

Global coffee giant Starbucks has refused to move forward in negotiations with Ethiopia unless it's on the company's own terms, according to international agency Oxfam. Oxfam is calling on Starbucks to stop forcing an alternate agreement on Ethiopia, and come to the ...

Cleveland, OH -WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN ideastream and Playhouse Square Foundation are pleased to announce the new KeyBank Small Non-Profit Series, a sequence of discussions focusing on issues important to executives of small non-profit organizations and students...

JOPLIN, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2006--CFI, a privately held
international truckload carrier based in Joplin, Missouri, is proud to announce they are a recipient of the 2006 SmartWay Excellence Award.

"CFI became a SmartWay Tr...

(Bainbridge Island, WA) Bainbridge Graduate Institute, according to Net Impact's Business as Unusual: The 2006 Student Guide to Graduate Business Programs, ranks #1 in sustainable business education.

Net Impact is an international...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 2006--Over the last several weeks, Oxfam has accused Starbucks of not supporting the Ethiopian coffee farmer. Oxfam's Campaign against Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) is misleading, does not help the coffee farmer and the campaign...

WASHINGTON-- "Summer slide," where a kid can lose as much as two months of reading achievement during the lazy days of summer, was not an issue for the more than 4,500 kids who completed Reading Is Fundamental's (RIF) Summer Reading Challenge, presented by Target, ri...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 2006--The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, the most successful athletic fundraising event in the nation, will tonight contribute $26 million to cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The gift brings the PMC's 27-year t...