CSR News

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., - How can travelers help protect children and young women at risk from exploitation all over the world just by checking into a hotel? Beginning October 2004, guests staying at participating Carlson Hotels Worldwide brand properties in the Americas ...

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Newark, NJ - The New Jersey Performing Arts Center announced today an historic $10 million gift from The Prudential Foundation in support of educational initiatives, operations, and endowment at the Center. The gift, comprised of $3 million toward NJPAC...

Seattle - Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX) today formally announced that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact. The Global Compact is an international network of corporations, U.N. agencies, trade unions and non-governmental organizations that support ...

Today sees the launch of the first global index, The Accountability Rating®, which evaluates how well the world's 100¹ largest companies account for their impacts on society and the environment. This topical index is released at a ...

New York, NY--Columbia Business School's Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) Program, Investors' Circle, and the Social Venture Network have partnered to conduct the first national survey of for-profit social ventures, which are de...

London, UK - Marketplace is the theme of the Business in the Community Annual Conference 2004. For the first time, business, key opinion formers and media will focus on the market drivers shaping the ways business operates. Debate will cover sourcing and manufacturing...

MAPUTO, Mozambique; MELBOURNE, Australia; GENEVA, Switzerland; - Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and BHP Billiton announced recently that they are entering into a partnership to discover, develop & deliver effective and affordable medicine against malaria. MM...

TechnoServe/U.S. -- The arabica coffee grown by Lya de Castaneda, Alicia Cristina Alabi De Schuck, and Maria Antonieta Dominguez De Arnesen captured three of the top four price-paid-per-pound spots in today's 2004 Cup of Excellence® Internet Auctio...

Portland, OR - The start of the Pacific Northwest growing season will mean a bigger selection of NutriClean® certified pesticide residue free produce on grocery store shelves according to Scientific Certification Systems, an independent global certification organizati...