CSR News

WASHINGTON, DC - Venture-backed women-led enterprises are moving well beyond start-up stages of corporate formation to revenue generation, and almost 20 percent report profitability, according to Springboard Enterprises, whose program for women entrepreneurs has helpe...

UNITED NATIONS - Entrepreneurship and new business creation are important for economic growth, but new studies released yesterday to a group of international leaders at the United Nations show that many countries overlook key measures to spur entrepreneurial activity ...

CHICAGO, IL – More than 200 Bankers Life and Casualty Company agents and employees will take to the streets on May 9-10, 2003 to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association during the first “Forget Me Not Days.” More than 50,000 forget-me-not seed packets will be dis...

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Global Compact reports several new initiatives
including:

Hewlett-Packard & Pfizer Help Launch North American Learning Forum

Leading companies in North America met...

OJAI, CA - The World Business Academy will hold a two-day conference in London on May 13-14 for current Members and Fellows. The subject of this conference is “The Emerging Role of Business in a Chaotic World.” Corporate business leaders, entrepreneurs and others wh...

WASHINGTON, DC - Bronson Methodist Hospital and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center were honored today at the American Hospital Association's Annual Meeting with the 2003 Environmental Leadership Award, the premiere award of the national Hospitals for a Healthy Environ...

GOSHEN,IN – Concerned PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) shareholders today announced their sponsorship of a proxy resolution asking the soft drink industry giant to report on how it plans to deal with the business and employee impact of the AIDS pandemic in Africa.

On Ma...

NORWALK, CT - TechnoServe's 35th Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at the Credit Suisse First Boston Conference Facility located at One Madison Avenue in New York City. Credit Suisse First Boston, a member of TechnoServe's Business Leadership Cou...

SEATTLE,WA – Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) and the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) are pleased to announce that Mary Williams was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the SCAA national conference on Saturday, April 26 in Boston. Wi...

PITTSBURGH, PA - U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Elaine L.Chao has appointed seven new members to the ERISA Advisory Council, including Donald B. Trone, a nationally-known fiduciary standards expert. The 15-member board, established by the Employee Retirement Inco...