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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...

Safe Kids Walk This Way and FedEx promote child pedestrian safety.

Together with Safe Kids Worldwide, FedEx established the Safe Kids Walk This Way program to teach safe behaviors to motorists and child pedestrians and create safer, more walkable communities. The goal of the joint initiative is to prevent pedestrian-related injury to children.

Coca-Cola joins the fight against HIV/AIDS

Coca-Cola has developed a range of awareness raising initiatives for HIV/AIDS. Working with a range of NGO partners, its programs have reached at risk people in 11 countries.

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...

Adidas group built a partnership with health care NGO in Vietnam and China

In 2003, Adidas group built a partnership with the international health care provider Marie Stopes International (MSI). Based on the research and survey work that was conducted at supplier factories in Vietnam, a broad-scale project aimed at addressing the fundamental sexual and reproductive health...

Western Union partnered with Mercy Corps to increase financial literacy

Western Union, the leading money transfer service around the globe, entered into partnership with Mercy Corps in 2007 to increase financial literacy for families and individuals in some of the world's poorest countries. "Our World, Our Family" is the five-year, $50 million program that Western...

Boeing helps critical Mercy Corps programs get off the ground

Immediately following the the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Boeing committed $1 million to tsunami relief efforts, split among three humanitarian organisations including Mercy Corps.

Conocophillips builds partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to protect threatened migratory birds

For more than a decade, ConocoPhillips and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation have worked hand-in-hand to conserve birds and other wildlife, while educating children and adults about the natural world.

Timberland partners with Verite to incorporate a Code of Conduct into supplier's internal management system.

Timberland partners with Verite, an independent nonprofit social auditing, training, and research organization, to ensure that working conditions around the world are fair, legal and safe.

Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation: United Nations Collaboration with Chinese Experiments

Author: Susan H. Holcombe Xu Xianmei Date:1996-10

Siemens helps to create a portable water filtration unit

Natural disasters often affect water infrastructure leading to contaminated drinking water and outbreaks of water born disease. As a part of their Siemens Caring Hands programme Siemens collaborated with SkyJuice Foundation to create SkyHydrant a portable water filtration unit.

Accor and Plan International work together to change the lives of many children around the world

Accor, hotel and services group, and Plan, have worked together in 16 countries. The aim of the partnership is to promote child sponsorship and project funding to Accor staff, partners and guests. Highlight of achievements to date: * more than 1,100 children are now sponsored throughout the...

Shared Value between Nestlé and crops producers

Nestlé is guided by the principle of creating shared value for shareholders and society in a manner that is integrally linked to its core business strategies and operations. It is called “Creating Shared Value (CSV)”; value created for shareholders, employees, farmers, consumers and the communities...

China Foundation

The China Foundation seeks to enhance the quality of life, through improving health and education, for those who live in the more needy regions of the world, particularly in Asia and China. The China Foundation provides basic medical services and medicine to remote areas of China, and renovates and...

AnAn International Education Foundation Hong Kong (Charity) Ltd.

"AnAn" was set up to serve autism, elderly, disadvantaged groups and special education needs in the region through various types of regional livelihood, recreation and health education activities. The purpose of setting up Hong Kong AnAn was to serve the autistic kids and their families in...

Carlson College

Carlson College (CC) is a private, non-profit institution that works for the improvement of young people under the government's cooperation and provides a good learning environment for students. It is a college under the Institute of Further and Continuing Education (IFCE), founded to meet the...

Jade Rattan Furniture Co. Ltd

The Jade Rattan Furniture Co. Ltd (JRF) manufactures solid wood furniture and imports foreign furniture. JRF has three chain-stores and more than 150 specialty shops in Mainland China, and exports furniture to Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Chinese Association for NGO Cooperation (CANGO)

Chinese Association for NGO Cooperation (CANGO) aims to create a strong, empowered network of non-profit organisations to address poverty alleviation, environmental protection and social development in China's poor, remote, and minority-inhabited areas. CANGO acts as an intermediary agency and...

Greenpeace - East Asia

Greenpeace is an international NGO which aims to defend nature and promote peace. Greenpeace East Asia focuses on crucial threats to biodiversity and the environment. Greenpeace China campaigns on stopping climate change, saying no to genetic engineering, toxic chemicals, and protecting forests and...

Integrate Shipping Limited

Integrate Shipping Limited is a China based freight agent with offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. The company partners with agents in over 100 countries, offering air cargo in or out of any location in China, to or from anywhere in the world. They can also handle oversized or overweight...