CSR News

DALLAS,TX - A global warming proxy resolution that attracted 24 percent of shareholder support today at TXU Corporation (NYSE: TXU) is a "major victory" for religious institutional investor members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), which is ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- Representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), DaimlerChrysler and UPS (NYSE:UPS), gathered here at the government's premier fuel emissions laboratory, today announced a collaborative project in which UPS will operate package deliv...

NICE, FRANCE - The World Semiconductor Council (WSC) met today for its seventh annual meeting and issued strong recommendations on a broad range of policy objectives of importance to the global semiconductor industry. The WSC is the pre-eminent organization representi...

NEW YORK, NY - Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), a leading investment management firm serving the Catholic institutional market, helped spearhead a coalition of restive shareholders this past week, demanding improved corporate governance at one of the nat...

Nokia, the International Youth Foundation (IYF), Pearson and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launch Bridgeit — an innovative program that uses mobile technology to bring interactive, multimedia learning materials to local classrooms around the wo...

SEATTLE; WA – The Business and Industry Resource Venture announced today that Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) is one of 11 recipients of the 2003 BEST (Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow) Awards. The awards program recognizes the Company’s energy conserva...

CHICAGO,IL - The first nationwide Hispanic venture-capital fund has opened its doors for business, evolving from a 2000 alliance of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Bank One Corporation (NYSE: ONE). Hispania Capital Partners is actively se...

HOUSTON, TX -- The Port of Houston Authority (PHA) has been named the government category winner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's 2003 Texas Environmental Excellence Awards for its innovative use of dredged material from the Houston Ship Channel wide...

SAN ANTONIO, TX - Uniting the tradition of the nonprofit world and the promise of the Internet, www.texasnonprofits.org is pleased to announce a new and improved website that offers an easier way for nonprofits to raise money, find volunteers, employees, advisors and ...

NEW YORK - TechnoServe President and CEO Peter A. Reiling will announce today that McKinsey & Company has agreed to undertake a comprehensive and independent analysis of the global coffee industry for TechnoServe, on a pro bono basis over the next 10 weeks. The a...