CSR News

LONDON, UK - Advances in information technology have made the World Wide Web an easily accessible forum for finding and dispersing information quickly and effortlessly. Newsgroups are a significant component of the internet and communications with other like minded pr...

NEW ORLEANS, LA – Today, at the National American Indian Housing Council’s (NAIHC) annual convention, Washington Mutual, one of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders and servicers, announced that it has committed $1 million to support closing costs associated wi...

ACCRA, GHANA - TechnoServe (TNS) and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) will launch their"Business Skills for Youth" program in Ghana from June 30 - July 4 in Accra, providing intensive training for 25 Ghanaian teachers selected from universi...

BOSTON, MA - This summer, commuters and others walking though Dudley Square in Roxbury will be able to check their e-mail and surf the Internet in the MBTA’s Dudley Bus Station. Starting July 1, they will find a new Internet service center on one of the familiar Vill...

ATLANTA, GA – For the fifth consecutive year, UPS has ranked among the “50 Best Companies for Minorities” in the annual survey published by FORTUNE magazine.

“At UPS, diversity is not about race or gender, it’s about understandi...

NEW YORK, NY - The U.S. EPA has just awarded the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), The Design Foundation a $50,000 grant to develop and host Eco-Design education workshops across the country in the coming year. The award represents an Innovation Grant‹a ...

PORTLAND, ME - Poor pay practices and excessive compensation were key factors in each of the boards in TCL's bottom ten list of America's largest public corporations (www.thecorpor...

LONDON - The University of St Andrews and ConocoPhillips have announced the launch of the 2004 St Andrews Prize for the Environment. Applications are now invited from individuals, multi-disciplinary teams or community groups for the annual prize of $30,000 for the wi...

London — In the wake of the recent shareholder revolts at ExxonMobil and Southern, energy executives are being forced to address environmental and community concerns in their business plans.

Over 100 executives from across North ...

BETHESDA, MD - Calvert, the nation’s largest family of socially responsible mutual funds, announced today that it has adopted revised Proxy Voting Guidelines that integrate corporate governance and corporate social responsibility into what Calvert calls a “sustainable...