CSR News

NEW YORK - TIAA-CREF, the financial services group of companies and leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields, today announced a new initiative aimed at eliminating automatic "evergreen" features in option plans rel...

NEW YORK & LONDON - Global index provider FTSE Group (FTSE) and corporate governance leader Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) today release the first phase of the joint FTSE ISS Corporate Governance Index (CGI) Series. FTSE and ISS have created this new ser...

HARTFORD, CT - The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has named United Technologies Corp. the winner of its 2005 Golden Torch Award for Corporate Diversity Leadership. UTC was recognized for its outstanding professional achievements in the fields of engineeri...

WASHINGTON, DC - Today 15-year-old U.S. National Team and D.C. United soccer player Freddy Adu, along with U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and other community leaders, met with kids at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greate...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN --Think of a company where the virus that infects people isn't greed but sustainability. That's Clif Bar Inc., the $100 million maker of (nearly) organic energy bars. Or imagine a $16 billion retailer taking the risk to expose where its own over...

COPENHAGEN - As Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rises on the global agenda, a new Nordic Partnership survey looks at the opinions and expectations of this wave of CSR from the perspective of a select group of key Nordic NGOs.

SAN JOSE, CA - The Software Development Forum (SDForum), Silicon Valley's leading source of information and education in the technology community for more than twenty years, is a driving force behind a new Valley initiative that is seeing the development of applicatio...

CLEVELAND - KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) EVP and Key Foundation Chair Margot J. Copeland today presented a $30,000 grant to Robert Shakno, president and CEO of Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland to establish an in-service training program for JFSA's staff of 200 Di...

STAMFORD, CT - LBG Associates, last week, released the findings of its latest study, Measuring Corporate Volunteerism. The centerpiece of the 200-page report is a sophisticated mathematical model that can predict the success of corporate volunteer progr...

YARDLEY, PA, -- Gemcor International has recently launched a website that allows companies to create a free online shopping mall. Companies can encourage their employees to shop online at the mall. Mall revenues are generated from merchant commissions. The unique flex...