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FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2006--First Command Educational Foundation has been accepted for inclusion in the 2006 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) National List, paving the way for receiving charitable gifts from employees of the federal government.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2006 -- Deepmarket.com, a blog that researches new techniques for stock market analysis, and Carbonfund.org, a pioneering nonprofit organization making it easy and affordable for any person or business to reduce their climate impact, announce...

BOC has launched China's first ever socially responsible investment fund. The new Sustainable Growth Equity Fund is the first in China to apply socially responsible investment criteria, and an important milestone for socially responsible investment and sustainable dev...

PORTLAND, Maine--(May 24, 2006)-- IW Financial, a leading provider of objective research and analytics enabling investment professionals to evaluate companies' environmental, social and corporate governance performance, announced today that it will provide state treas...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2006--Employment at Dell's (NASDAQ:DELL) North Carolina manufacturing facility now exceeds 1,000 people, Dell Chairman Michael Dell said here today, surpassing the company's initial forecast of creating 750 jobs in its fir...

Basel - Dr. Daniel Vasella, Chairman and CEO of Novartis, announced today that the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) will initiate research on malaria - estimated to annually kill more than one million people worldwide and one of the top three killer dis...

West Bridgewater, MA- Responding to a plea for support from small-scale cocoa farmers in the Dominican Republic, the pioneering fair trade business Equal Exchange is urging that country's president to repeal a tax that it claims is illegal, discriminatory, and has bee...

West Bridgewater, MA-- While other small, growing natural product brands continue to get bought up by large corporations, Equal Exchange - the Fair Trade coffee pioneers - and Wainwright Bank have created a unique, company specific Certificate of Deposit to raise affo...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2006--America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network and Hormel Foods Corporation today announced the signing of a two-year partnership agreement to work together to combat hunger in the United States.

Fairfield, Conn. - GE released today its 2006 citizenship report highlighting the company's progress in 2005 and providing a view into its priorities for the coming year. The report, "Solving Big Needs," is the company's second, and tells the story of how GE uses its ...