CSR News

SEATTLE, WA - Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) announced today that its Make Your Mark program in September doubled its goal of 50,000 hours of partner (employee) and customer volunteer time, generating more than 110,000 volunteer hours by 27,000 partner...

AMSTERDAM - SiRi Company announces that all assets and activities of SiRi Group are transferred to SiRi Company with immediate effect. This development positions SiRi Company as the leading independent global provider of SRI research and consulting services for instit...

LONDON - The Burma Campaign UK and Federation of Trade Unions (Burma) are celebrating today's news that British American Tobacco (BAT) is to pull out of Burma. The two organisations launched a global campaign to get BAT out of Burma in November last year. BAT announce...

The United Nations Global Compact announced that on 9-11 December 2003 it will convene the third international Global Compact Learning Forum Meeting in Nova Lima, Brazil.

The meeting, which is open to all companies and other org...

BRUSSELS - A new survey published today by CSR Europe, Deloitte and Euronext reveals that social and environmental performance is on course to become a significant aspect of mainstream investment decisions within the next three years. The survey, Investing in Respons...

LONDON ? The first speakers for ?How to Implement CSR Communications for Business Results?were announced today. This forum will take place in London UK 24 - 25 February 2004. Follow-up sessions in each location will take place in June and additional UK speaker...

CALGARY, ALBERTA - Suncor Energy Inc. today released its 2003 Report on Sustainability, the first such publication by a Canadian company to be prepared in accordance with the 2002 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which is s...

SEATTLE, WA - The Washington Mutual Community Access program was today honored with this year's CRA Community Impact Award at the 2003 CRA & Fair Lending Colloquium in Atlanta. The national award recognizes financial institutions that have been instrumental in dev...

PITTSBURGH, PA - With thousands of displaced California families still dependent upon volunteer efforts for daily living needs, Alcoa Foundation has announced grants to disaster relief organizations from the San Bernardino Mountains to San Diego. A total of $60,000 ha...

Can green business really lead to green in the bank? Are economic profits and corporate responsibility compatible? The answer is a resounding yes, according to Chris Laszlo, author of THE SUSTAINABLE COMPANY: How to Create Lasting Value Through Social and Environme...