CSR News

BEAVERTON, OR - Nike, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) today announced the appointment of Hannah Jones, director of corporate responsibility for Nike's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region for the past four years, to vice president of corporate responsibility. She succeeds Ma...

MIDDLEBURY, VT - With two weeks until Election Day, students at Middlebury College rallied to declare their independence from dirty energy. Students listened to speeches by climate change expert Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, and Bob Huth, Vice President ...

Dialogue between stakeholders requires a wide range of training on the part of the different types of stakeholders, from what the expression "CSR" actually means to how to behave, how to manage dialogue and the interaction between them. There is a great lack of knowle...

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) released a new tool that is the latest in a series of GEMI tools showing how environmental, health and safety (EHS) excellence can enhance the business performance of companies. Transparenc...

CHICAGO - Lawndale community kids got a kick out of their own world-class soccer field when gold medal-winning soccer stars Mia Hamm and Briana Scurry from the U.S. Women's National Team visited Douglas Park today to dedicate a new half-million dollar FieldTurf soccer...

CLEVELAND - Mayor Jane L. Campbell and Bruce D. Murphy, president of KeyBank (NYSE: KEY) Community Development Banking today revealed an untapped urban cash economy in Cleveland totaling $828 million, according to "The City of Cleveland Neighborhood Market DrillDown,"...

AUBURN HILLS, MI - DaimlerChrysler AG, DaimlerChrysler South Africa, along with the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) and the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) will host representatives from 15 minority-owned suppliers on a business opportunity mi...

NEW YORK - In conjunction with the NBA's annual Read to Achieve Week, DisneyHand, worldwide outreach for The Walt Disney Company, and Disney Publishing Worldwide have agreed to donate more than 160,000 books to NBA teams, which will then be distributed to schools and ...

WASHINGTON - The National Urban League, Business Roundtable, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, joined by President Bush's National Economic Council Director and other Administration officials, today announced five pilot cities of a groundbreaking national part...

BOSTON, MA - Today international development agency Oxfam America announced the start of Check Out Fair Trade, the second phase of its coffee campaign. Mobilized activists and supporters will visit their local supermarkets and ask store managers to stock and promote ...