CSR News

LONDON – Nearly 250,000 refugees in Azerbaijan are to benefit from a new ‘safe childbirth’ initiative, launched today by HealthProm, a charity promoting healthcare for vulnerable groups in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Today, His Excellency Mr Rafael Ibrahimov, Th...

Involving men in Kenya, promoting sexual health awareness in Mexico and encouraging safer sex in New Zealand -- these are the aims of three new initiatives in HIV/AIDS funded by Positive Action, GlaxoSmithKline's international programme of HIV/AIDS education, care and...

IRVING, Texas - Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) has contributed $2 million to schools in 45 states and the District of Columbia through ExxonMobil's Educational Alliance program. Four thousand grants in the amount of $500 each were awarded to a school nominated by...

NICARAGUA on Friday, November 22, the 25 small- and medium-scale coffee growers who comprise the Pueblo Nuevo Coffee Cooperative -- together with the 300 farm workers they employ -- will celebrate the completion of their new centralized wet mill. The inauguration cere...

BEAVERTON, OR Nike employees from Beaverton, Ore., will travel to Tahlequah, Okla., to join Cherokee tribal leaders, school administrators and community members tomorrow (Friday) to help dedicate the new running track facilities at Sequoyah High School. Tahlequah is...

IRVING, Texas - Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) today announced its plans to invest $100 million in a groundbreaking Stanford University project dedicated to researching new options for commercially viable, technological systems for energy supply and use which have...

CINCINNATI – Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB) announced today that SustainAbility, an international consultancy specializing in business strategy and sustainable development, has recognized the company’s first corporate responsibility report among the t...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Saturday, November 23, is “National Family Volunteer Day,” the national event that encourages families to participate in community service activities. For those families interested in volunteering together, VolunteerMatch makes searching and signin...

WASHINGTON, D.C./PORTLAND, OREGON – To combat global warming while conserving biodiversity, Conservation International and the Jatun Sacha Foundation, an Ecuadorian conservation organization, have launched a carbon offsets project to reforest 680 acres of degraded pas...

Copenhagen – A new Campaign Report on European CSR Excellence 2002-2003, published by CSR Europe and the Copenhagen Centre, has concluded that corporate social responsibility is a working reality in Europe and not just another passing trend. The report is an important...