CSR News

CINCINNATI, OH – Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE:CQB) announced today that independent auditors have certified its banana farms in Costa Rica to the strict Social Accountability 8000 (SA8000) labor standard. Chiquita’s Costa Rican division, which has more t...

PITTSBURGH, PA - Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) today announced it has finalized agreements with the Government of Iceland and Landsvirkjun, Iceland's National Power Company, to build the 322,000 metric tons per year Fjardaal aluminum facility in Eastern Iceland. Agreements we...

AUSTIN, TX - Hart InterCivic will host "Business Ethics in the 21st Century: A Real World Approach" on March 25th from 9:00-11:00 AM at St. Edward's University.

As a winner of the 2002 Samaritan Center Ethics in Business Award, H...

WHAT: Symposium on "Corporate Governance in the United States and Europe: An Emerging Consensus or Growing Disparity?"

During the past year, issues concerning corporate governance have become a major concern for many Americans an...

FREDERICKSBURG, VA - Rebecca Adamson (Cherokee), founder and president of First Nations Development Institute, has been selected by the National Women’s History Project as a March 2003 Honoree. The 2003 National Women’s History Month theme, “Women Pioneering the Futu...

ALEXANDRIA, VA - Gifts In Kind International, the world leader in product philanthropy, in a partnership with iReady World, is now delivering a utility computing solution for nonprofits that reduces IT expenses and guarantees up-to-date software packages for productiv...

New York, NY - FTSE Group, the independent global index company, today announces that it is strengthening the FTSE4Good Index Series with the addition of a new, independent US Committee made up of experts in the field of socially responsible investing (SRI) and corpor...

LONDON - Britain's biggest companies are split on what to make of the UK's first index of responsible corporate behaviour, published today. Less than a quarter of the large UK companies targeted by Business in the Community, who carried out the survey, decided to resp...

PITTSBURGH & REYDARFJORDUR - Iceland's Environmental Agency today issued an Operating Permit for Alcoa's proposed Fjardaal primary aluminum smelter in Eastern Iceland.

The Permit establishes environmental operating conditions...

NEW YORK, NY - The Coalition for New Philanthropy in New York, a partnership that encourages African American, Latino and Asian American donors in the New York metropolitan region, has named CAO K. O, as chairman of its Executive Committee. Mr. O is executive director...