Business Wire And CSRwire Announce Strategic Alliance.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Business Wire and CSRwire today announced a strategic alliance enabling Business Wire clients to reach the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. ) community. CSRwire is the only news wire distributing corporate social responsibility news and reports to interested journalists, analysts, investors and academics. "There is a heightened awareness of corporate responsibility today among journalists, as well as institutional and individual investors," noted Cathy Baron Tamraz, president of Business Wire. "Our alliance with CSRwire, the premier news service catering to this constituency means that corporate activities promoting social initiatives will reach a far broader audience than ever before." Business Wire prides itself as a major proponent of corporate social responsibility. The company is a major financial supporter of charitable and educational causes. Business Wire has a strong commitment to management diversity while encouraging employee participation in grass roots grass roots pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. People or society at a local level rather than at the center of major political activity. Often used with the. 2. The groundwork or source of something. community activities. Many of the company's employees work for or are on boards of non-profits and other community-based organizations. Lorry I. Lokey, Business Wire's founder and chief executive officer, has contributed in excess of $110 million over the past decade to philanthropic organizations and educational institutions worldwide. Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , Mills College Mills College, at Oakland, Calif.; for women; est. 1852 as the Young Ladies' Seminary at Benicia, Calif., moved 1871, chartered as Mills College 1885. The first women's college in the Far West, it has programs in English literature and creative writing, foreign , and Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. University - as well as public schools in the San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay - are among the schools that have benefited from Lokey's and Business Wire's strong commitment to education. "There is a rapidly growing audience interested in corporate social responsibility issues," observed Joe Sibilia, founder of Meadowbrook Lane Capital, CSRwire's parent company. "We strongly believe that our strategic partnership with Business Wire will continue to raise awareness that good corporate citizenship Corporate Citizenship The extent to which businesses are socially responsible in meeting legal, ethical and economic responsibilities placed on them by shareholders. The aim it to create higher standards of living and quality of life in the community in which it operates, while is good for business." CSRwire distributes news and reports related to a company's activities in community development, ethics, corporate contributions, corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. , corporate finance, diversity, environmental, human rights and workplace issues. CSRwire's distribution network reaches more than 400,000 total readers. Network recipients include major media outlets, investment professionals, NGOs, special interest groups, activists, academics and corporate CSR officers. Business Wire and CSRwire believe that their collaboration will cast a brighter spotlight on corporate social responsibility and the resulting benefits for the sponsoring company and the community-at-large. The companies plan to jointly sponsor a nationwide series of conferences, in addition to working with industry groups and business schools, to promote the concept of corporate social responsibility to new audiences. About CSRwire CSRwire is the leading source of corporate social responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news. CSRwire members are companies and NGOs, agencies and organizations interested in communicating their corporate citizenship, sustainability, and socially responsible initiatives to a global audience through CSRwire's syndication network and weekly News Alerts. Meadowbrook Lane Capital, CSRwire's parent company, has been described as a "socially responsible investment bank" by the Wall Street Journal. The company specializes in turning values into valuation while concentrating on succession issues for mission driven companies. About Business Wire Chairman/CEO Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most executive founded Business Wire in 1961. The company's multi-channel delivery network, with access to some 60 international and national news agencies, financial information providers and Web-based news services throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , the Middle East and Africa, provides real-time, simultaneous access to key audiences - the news media, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers. Business Wire electronically disseminates some 1,000 full-text news releases daily to the media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the global investment community in 150 countries in 45 languages. Business Wire has 24 U.S. offices, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Brussels, Sydney and Tokyo offices, and reciprocal offices throughout the world. |
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