LONDON, UK: Graduate employer PwC working in partnership with Bright Futures have launched Business Champions, the ultimate business game, which gives students the opportunity to put their skills to the test and try their hand at becoming budding entrepreneurs.
12 Nov 2010 10:28JOHANNESBURG: Edcon's flagship CSI programme, the annual Jet Community Awards, honoured seven community-based organisations for their contributions to community upliftment at a ceremony at the Edcon Retail Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa on Wednesday, 10 November 2010.
11 Nov 2010 13:48
MADRID, SPAIN: Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira been awarded the MTV 'Free Your Mind' award at the MTV European Music Awards in Madrid for her involvement with the Official Campaign of the 2010 FIFA World Cup '20 Centres for 2010', 1 GOAL and Education for All.
9 Nov 2010 08:31
Standard Bank's HIV/Aids programmes have touched the lives of an estimated 160 000 Standard Bank employees and their families, says Sim Tshabalala, the bank's chief executive.
12 Oct 2010 13:57
L'ABBAYE, SWITZERLAND: IMD teamwork, networking with clients and fun in the sun - all these ingredients and more were on display as two IMD sponsored teams took part in the Paddle for Cancer DragonBoat Festival yesterday in L'Abbaye, Switzerland.
7 Sep 2010 12:16[Gemma Taylor, creamglobal.com] LONDON, UK: If someone said 10 years ago that Pepsi was going to pull its multi-million dollar Super Bowl opening ad position and trade it in for a $20 million socially responsible community project, they would have been laughed off Madison Avenue. But this is exactly what happened.
26 Aug 2010 06:43 
NEW YORK, US: Campaign uses empty "soup" cans sold in partner supermarkets and food outlets to get the message across its intended audience.
19 Aug 2010 11:03
NEW YORK, US: Unicef's ongoing Tap Project continues to use ideas to communicate its simple but important on-going mission.
28 Jul 2010 11:54
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] In an industry prone to sensationalism, hearsay journalism, reporting keener on settling scores than informing, pathetic wages, mass exodus of skills and lack of ongoing training, environmental reporting in Africa is almost non-existent. Some believe African media's indifference towards green issues constitutes an affront to impoverished populations that pin their hopes on newsrooms to hold profit-obsessed businesses to account for hurting the planet.
8 Jul 2010 12:01
The 2010 Jet Community Awards, which have opened for entries, will recognise community projects and grass roots organisations in four categories. With more than R1 million in prize money, the competition is open to entries from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland, with the proviso that winners are obliged to reinvest their winnings into their community building initiatives.
9 Feb 2010 09:10
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Free-to-air TV station e.tv this year joined forces with Edcon Group to take the seven-year-old Jet Community Awards to another level - to create awareness around community projects participation and give exposure to those who are working hard under difficult conditions to improve the lives of ‘forgotten' people living in socially-disadvantaged areas of Southern Africa.
5 Nov 2009 08:20
FoodBank is planning an extensive media and publicity campaign, as well as launching its donations platform internationally to highlight World Food Day, an UN-sponsored event to highlight the issues of food security and global hunger that culminates on Friday, 16 October 2009.
13 Oct 2009 10:32
[Carole Kimutai] East Africa Breweries (EABL), through its corporate social investment division - EABL Foundation, has confirmed plans to step up environmental promotion and awareness programs in four East African countries.
8 Oct 2009 07:26
According to the organisers of the Southern Africa grassroots awards programme, the annual Jet Community Awards, entries have doubled since the 2008 competition. Almost 1000 entries were received from community projects and non-profit organisations (NGOs) from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland.
3 Sep 2009 10:00
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