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"Women Can and Do" Campaign launched in collaboration of ExxonMobil, Diane von Furstenberg and Vital Voices
Designer Diane von Furstenberg, ExxonMobil Foundation and Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international non-profit organization dedicated to women's leadership, celebrated the 2008 International Women's Day with the launch of "Women Can and Do", a campaign to empower women to become leaders in...
Gap Inc.supports annual AIDS walks
Gap Inc. has been supporting AIDS walks in New York City and San Francisco for more than a decade through the participation of employees as the largest teams and fundraisers.
Freshfields law firm provides pro bono services and personnel to social service NGOs in London
The Freshfields access to justice programme is most active in London, where they support legal advice centres, including the drop-in centre at Tower Hamlets; many of their partners have volunteered there. These volunteers have also represented clients from the Free Representation Unit appearing...
Lex Mundi Legal Services Allows Social Entrepreneurs To Use Their Top-class Legal Expertise Pro Bono
The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation calls upon Lex Mundi's unique global network of 160 top tier business law firms to provide legal assistance to 'social entrepreneurs' on a pro bono basis. By providing social entrepreneurs with access to critically needed legal assistance, the foundation joins the...
France Loisirs Suisse distributed advertisements for Terre des Hommes to its customers.
The leading West-Swiss Book and Culture Club, France Loisirs Suisse, permits Terre des Hommes to include its appeals in their parcels to customers, thus offering a channel of private distribution.
Walmart unveils eco-friendly products, mobilizes workforce in partnerships with NGOs
Walmart celebrated global Earth Month by demonstrating its commitment to a greener environment around the world. Walmart will unveil a number of earth friendly products, partner with local governments and NGOs, sponsor community activities and engage its 2.2 million associates worldwide to promote...
Hunter Boot produced limited-edition WaterAid welly to raise funds to help people without access to safe water
WaterAid works in partnership with Hunter Boot, the nation's favourite wellington boot maker, to produce an exciting limited-edition WaterAid welly for Glastonbury 2008.
PwC employees support skills development programmes for young people
Since 2004, a number of PwC employees have supported unemployed youths on The Prince's Trust Team Programme, a personal development course.
Microsoft partners with aid agencies to provide essential technology
In 1999, Microsoft employees from the European offices responded to the Kosovo crisis by creating The Refugee Field Kit - a computer-based method of providing displaced people (most of whom had been stripped of identity papers when fleeing Kosovo) with new official identity cards and an easier...
IKEA co-operates with the Paediatric Research Foundation of Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital
Since 2008, IKEA Social Initiative co-operates with the Paediatric Research Foundation of Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. The goal of the programme is to improve the health of the many children in India. The five-year program aims at developing research that can improve...
IKEA is cooperating with WWF to reduce impact on the climate.
IKEA is cooperating with WWF and implementing several projects globally in an effort to reduce the impact on the climate, the forests, and cotton. IKEA and WWF hope to encourage considerate, efficient, long-term economically sound usage of natural resources with the ultimate goal of ensuring that...
Marks & Spencer gives disadvantaged people an opportunity for employment training
Marks & Start is Marks & Spencer's work experience programme for those who are homeless, disabled, single parents and young unemployed.
British American Tobacco establishes a biodiversity partnership with NGOs
British American Tobacco has established a biodiversity partnership, now in its third five-year term (2011-2015). The partners (Fauna & Flora International, Earthwatch, Tropical Biology Association, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and British American Tobacco) have appointed an independent programme...
Partnership aims to stop rare plant smuggling
TRAFFIC-Hong Kong, one of the 22 branches of a NGO network that monitors wildlife trade globally, partnered with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd to improve the airline's ability to stop the smuggling of rare plants on its planes.
WWF and IKEA Conservation Partnership
IKEA and WWF began a co-operation in 2002 to jointly promote responsible forestry in priority regions around the world. Together the two organizations have planned and implemented a series of projects in China, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The projects are important...
Developing hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks
In 2000, FedEx Express and Environmental Defense Fund struck an alliance to develop a delivery truck that dramatically decreases emissions while increasing fuel economy. The result was a diesel-electric hybrid, an ideal application for hybrid technology, given the frequent stopping and starting of...
Greenpeace and Marks & Spencer: Sustainable seafood procurement
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has adopted a Policy on Sustainable Sourcing of Fisheries Products, which applies to all seafood sold, including fish used as an ingredient. M&S came top of Greenpeace UK's Recipe for Disaster, a study of UK supermarkets, ranking them by their seafood policies.
Unilever and WWF establish certification for sustainable fisheries
The MSC Standard by the Marine Stewardship Council is the only internationally recognised set of environmental principles for assessing fisheries to establish whether they are well managed and sustainable. The MSC is an independent, global, non-profit organisation which was set up to find a...
NIKE Village Development Project
Nike in partnership with the Population & Community Development Association (PDA) and local villages, established the ‘NIKE Village Development Project’ in Thailand.
ExxonMobil and NetMark partner to distribute & promote anti-malaria bednets
In 2002, the ExxonMobil Africa Fuels Marketing Group teamed with AED/NetMark to set up the Help Us Help programme. The programme seeks to reduce the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa by increasing the commercial supply of and public demand for insecticide-treated bednets.