| +Unidos launches report in São Paulo |  SÃO PAULO - A complete mapping of U.S. corporate social initiatives in Brazil was released by +Unidos group on December 9, at the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in São Paulo, Brazil. Entitled Social Private Investments in Brazil – A +Unidos Group companies analysis, the report was produced by the Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises (GIFE) and originally conceived by the corporate social responsibility alliance promoted among American multinational enterprises, which is coordinated by the U.S. Mission in Brazil and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). More... |
|
| Partnership Opportunities |  Citi-supported Instituto Profissionalizante Paulista looking for new partnerships Instituto Profissionalizante Paulista - IPP is a non-profit organization, registered in CMDCA / SP - City Council Rights of the Child and Adolescent, whose mission is to be a unit of First Job and Professionalizing Education, working as a means of social constructive. Its general aim is to make the democratization of social teenager by preparing for the world of work in a context of real inclusion of the individual and full exercise of citizenship. More... |
| | USAID Weekly Report |  500 research publications on the Brazilian Amazon funded by USAID BELÉM - The closing conference of the U.S. Agency for International Development-funded phase II of the G-7 Pilot Program to Conserve the Brazilian Rain Forests (PPG-7) was held on December 1-4, 2008 in Belém, Pará. Over two hundred researchers from a multitude of institutions in the Brazilian Amazon presented results from eleven research networks encompassing fifty-two individual research projects on themes ranging from forest management to restoration of degraded lands. More... |
| |  +Unidos releases report on private social investments in Brazil Public-private corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative +Unidos is launching its first social investments report based on U.S. companies’ activities in Brazil. The report was developed by the Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises (GIFE) and describes over 765 different projects, 87,000 recruited volunteers and the benefiting of over 39 million Brazilians through social projects implemented by 59 U.S. organizations in the country. More... |
| |  Pfizer wins 2008 Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award Washington, D.C, November 24, 2008 - The Trust for the Americas, affiliate of the OAS, presents 2008 Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award to Pfizer for its program “Cabra Escola Project.” This program aims to increase income for poor families and flight child labor in the arid region of the state of Bahia, Brazil. Each family that sends their children to school is given a pair of goats and the infrastructure required to breed them, providing them with an effective way to supplement their income. More... |
|
