CSR News

NORWALK, CT - TechnoServe President and CEO Peter A. Reiling announced today that Simon Winter has been appointed as TechnoServe's new Regional Director for Africa, based for the balance of 2003 in Johannesburg and starting June 9. Mr. Winter will oversee TechnoServe'...

PORTLAND, OR – Nike USA Operations President Gary DeStefano and Multnomah County Commissioner Serena Cruz participated in a celebration today at the Portland Factory Store on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to reflect on the Nike Factory Store’s nearly two-decade hi...

WASHINGTON, DC - With the world's biggest and most influential private banks set to announce on June 4 a unified commitment to human rights and the environment, leading experts and NGOs say the Equator Principles don't address the core issue: whether or not banks inve...

POCOS DE CALDAS, BRAZIL & PITTSBURGH, PA. - Representing the 127,000 employees who helped achieve the goal, Alcoa Chairman and CEO, Alain Belda today planted the one-millionth tree in ceremonies at the Company's Pocos de Caldas, Brazil facility - and replicated at...

TORONTO, CANADA -- According to the results of the first Global Campus Monitor (GCM) survey of over 1,000 university students from around the world, a strong majority believe that corporate social responsibility (CSR) should be taught more at universities. Results sug...

NEW YORK, NY -- U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) joined Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) today to announce Freddie Mac's $1.5 million grant to the newly created Lower Manhattan Affordable Housing ...

LONDON - Social Capital is a start up company whose mission is to help people move out of poverty. Social Capital has developed a software tool that quantifies social impact created by socially responsible investments. This software is named SOCIOMIC and has been deve...

WASHINGTON, DC – Springboard Enterprises, in collaboration with The Lester Center for entrepreneurship & Innovation at UC Berkeley and The Women's Technology Cluster, will co-host a Growth Capital Workshop at the Haas School of Business on June 17, 2003. Springb...

HONG KONG -- The PMI Foundation presented the Hong Kong Red Cross with a donation of US $10,000 for Red Cross's "Campaign for Helping the Vulnerable and Needy to Prevent Atypical Pneumonia" initiative.

Michael Edwards, Chief Execu...

PORTLAND, OR -- Green House Network, a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization committed to building the grassroots movement to STOP global warming, and recent recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2003 Climate Protection Award, proudly announ...