Word: nonprofiteers
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...companies that want to become greener--whether out of a sense of duty, to ward off damaging protests or just to make more money--there are organizations that can help. McDonald's, Home Depot, Nike and Starbucks have enlisted Natural Step, a San Francisco nonprofit, to help them understand their environmental and social impact, envision what their company would look like if it were sustainable and then realize that vision with new processes and materials. McDonald's, which has had a relationship with the advocacy group Environmental Defense for 13 years, this year stopped buying chicken treated with Cipro-like...
More than 100 corporations, including General Motors, Bristol-Myers Squibb and British Airways, now release data on their environmental and social performance according to protocols spelled out by the Global Reporting Initiative, a collaboration of nonprofit organizations and companies based in Boston. In the 2001 report by Baxter International, a Deerfield, Ill., medical-products maker, the company detailed how reductions in energy and water use and improved waste disposal and recycling over the past seven years cut costs by $53 million last year. That savings amounted to nearly 10% of its 2001 net income...
...Adachi was joined by other critics, including the influential Yomiuri national daily, in condemning official inaction. "The government cares less about consumers than about Big Business," says Hiroshi Satomi, director of the Health Information Research Center, a nonprofit organization that conducts independent food and drug research for public safety. "Yes, the buyer must beware. But that doesn't absolve the government of all responsibility. Why should they get our tax money if they don't care...
Bullied, annoyed--or frightened. Most folks wouldn't appreciate Yoder's insistent calls; he can rant if he doesn't get quick action. Chester now prohibits Yoder from calling at least a dozen people who have complained about his phone manners. Even Equip for Equality, the nonprofit that accused Chester of writing spurious reports on Yoder, reluctantly told the facility earlier this year that Yoder had begun making inappropriate calls. Group officials say he left a message in January in which he promised to "f___ you up the ass in the newspapers" for not fighting hard enough...
...middle-management and technology professionals, and they are experiencing the pain of downsizing." Roughly a quarter of all churches offer job programs--mostly small, informal groups that meet once or twice a month and limit their religious content to an opening or concluding prayer. Brian Ray of the nonprofit Crossroads Career Network in Atlanta has helped 27 churches launch such programs, and plans to expand to 45 by the end of the year. Says Ray: "There's an opportunity to marry your personal faith and your work." --By David Robinson