BLACK ENTERPRISE magazine recently named General Mills to the 40 Best Companies for Diversity list for the third consecutive year.
“We’re thrilled to be honored by BLACK ENTERPRISE magazine as one of the 40 Best Companies for Diversity,” said Ken Charles, General Mills vice president of Diversity and Inclusion. “This award reflects our commitment to advancing [...]

Chevron Mining Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), today announced the donation of 208 acres of land to the Navajo Code Talkers Association (NCTA) for the future home of a Code Talkers museum and veterans center. The land transfer recognizes the Navajo Code Talkers for their service in creating history’s only unbroken battlefield [...]

The Canadian Ten Thousand Villages organization committed to raising awareness and taking action around World Population issues this summer. To do this, they decided to dedicate this summer to educating North Americans about the urgency of dealing with our global population crisis.
Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit program of the Mennonite Central Committee, provides fair income [...]

The Grey Muzzle Organization, a non-profit group dedicated to helping at-risk senior dogs, and Harold Creel, author of Do Old Dogs Dream?, have teamed up to strengthen and expand the group’s mission through the sale of Creel’s book.
Since last September, Grey Muzzle has made 19 grants for senior dog programs in 12 states. Three [...]

Artists wondering how to get their artwork noticed and, possibly make a few extra dollars, now have a website they can use. MyArtworkSpace.com today announced the launch of their 2nd Annual Spring Art Competition. $2,000 USD (€1,438 EUR) in cash and prizes are up for grabs to the best artists. This competition takes submissions from [...]

Actor John Hensley and Linkin Park’s Joe Hahn recently hosted the opening of “Celeritas,” an art exhibition at SURU Gallery in Hollywood. The exhibition, which runs through August 16, was conceived to bring both fine and street art to the public through motorcycle culture and to raise money for Riders for Health, an international aid [...]

www.tradewaste.org to launch global waste education programme
www.tradewaste.org are currently developing a waste education programme
through www.wasteeducation.org that will provide a basic overview of waste
management and its impact on the environment
Operations Manager Richard Noble quoted “it may be optimistic but it is our
intention to make the course available to companies free of charge. For
in-house waste management [...]

GiveForward is a Chicago-based social venture committed to helping individuals and non-profits raise money for good causes. Founded in 2008, the website provides easy-to-use personal fundraising pages that make it simple for individuals and organizations to raise money from friends and family from all over the world.
This week, a new version of the GiveForward site [...]

Nearly one out of five Californians (18 percent) named water supply and drought as the most important environmental issue, a nearly four-fold percentage increase from last year, according to the new annual Public Policy Institute of California Survey, Californians and the Environment. Despite this rising concern, the poll also showed that more Californians (50 percent) [...]

Most people agree that public schools are not as good as they should be.
“There are two possible explanations,” argues education activist Bruce Deitrick Price. “Either the Education Establishment is not qualified to do its job; or these people deliberately set low standards. Shouldn’t we demand more?”
The answer, according to Price, is that ordinary citizens ought [...]

Poet Larry Jaffe has been using his art to promote human rights his entire career. As an official Ambassador for Youth for Human Rights as well as their Poet Laureate, Jaffe has been featured in poetry venues and festivals both throughout the U.S. and abroad. But in today’s “Brave New World” Jaffe is [...]

From meatballs and southern comfort all the way to the James Beard House, Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival founder and director Lee Brian Schrager is pleased to announce the new line up of events featured at the 2009 Festival. Taking place this Columbus Day weekend, all of the proceeds from the [...]

Strategic Analytics Inc., the leading provider of stress testing and forecasting solutions for retail lenders, announced the launch of an internal division dedicated to providing proven and significant solutions in Mortgage Risk Analytics. The Mortgage Risk Analytics group will be led by Director Dale Cline, an industry veteran with more than twenty years of mortgage [...]

With carwashes, golf outings, pancake breakfasts and pie-throwing contests, Farmers Insurance agents nationwide led their communities to raise more than $2 million on July 22 to support March of Dimes programs to give every baby a healthy start in life.
The total amount raised was $2.6 million, more than $600,000 above this year’s goal. Farmers Insurance [...]

Bread for the World President Rev. David Beckmann urged members of the Senate to promptly pass a bill introduced today aimed at revitalizing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The bipartisan bill — the Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Accountability Act of 2009 (S.1524) — was introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry [...]