CSR News

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two leading organizations have launched GreenerBuildings.com, a free, content-rich Web site to provide companies of all sizes and sectors with information and resources on the full spectrum of environmental issues related to buildings and facilities...

Louisville, KY - On May 20, shareholders of Yum Brands, Inc., the parent company of Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver's, and A&W, will hear the results of their vote on a significant resolution while meeting at Yum corporate headquarters in Louisville, K...

Portland, ME -- IdealsWork Financial today announced that its financial services application, IWF Advisor, will add corporate governance data from The Corporate Library. IWF Advisor blends research on sustainability, risk, financial performance, and a wide array of co...

SAN JOSE, CA - Peter Cartwright, chairman, CEO and president of Calpine Corporation [NYSE:CPN], will be honored at a dinner celebrating New York's Clean Air Champions, sponsored by New York League of Conservation Voters, on Thursday, May 20. Cartwright, a 50-ye...

AUSTIN, Texas -- As a tribute to Lance Armstrong's inspirational fight against cancer as well as his historic attempt at a sixth Tour de France win, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) and Nike will launch the Wear Yellow Live Strong campaign. Nike will donate $1 m...

Geneva, Switzerland - The Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Professor Klaus Schwab today announced a new programme to draw on the combined talent of some of the world's emerging leaders. It came as he was awarded the Dan David Prize for his ac...

UNITED NATIONS -- William G. Parrett, global chief executive officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, called on multinational corporations to establish and follow codes of conduct that transcend minimum compliance, through principled ethical behavior that bolsters the rul...

TechnoServe/U.S. -- Entrepreneurs from all regions of Nicaragua and beyond are invited to participate in the country's first-ever national business plan competition, called "Idea tu Empresa." Beginning Monday, May 17, applications are being accepted through June 17 or...

COLCHESTER, Vt.--Green Mountain Power Corporation (NYSE: GMP) today announced that it has achieved the highest Corporate Governance Quotient rating from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the leading national provider of proxy voting and corp...

SEATTLE - Capitalizing on a renewed interest in poetry fostered by Hip Hop and Rap music, local Comcast and El Centro de la Raza officials today announced that El Centro has received a $25,000 grant from the Comcast Foundation's Comcast Reading Network to fund a progr...