Corporate Social Responsibility Weekly Recap (April 9 - April 16, 2008)

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
The following releases focus on Corporate Social Responsibility
and moved during the week of April 9 - April 16, 2008.

ALL TIME-OFFS ARE IN EASTERN TIME

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--Acxiom's PersonicX(R) Uncovers Green Trends in
U.S. Households (April 16, 2008 04:11 PM) Source: Acxiom Corporation

IRVINE, Calif.--''Mobility in Motion'' Tour to Help 100 Million
Disabled People Around the World (April 16, 2008 04:10 PM) Source:
Free Wheelchair Mission

BOSTON--Staples Foundation for Learning Renews Commitment to
Fostering Inner City Businesses by Supporting ICIC-Inc. Magazine's
Annual Inner City 100 (April 16, 2008 03:52 PM) Source: Initiative for
a Competitive Inner City

NEW YORK--Emmy Award Winning Actress Susan Lucci and Weatherman
and Feature CBS Reporter Dave Price to Host Bideawee Ball - for the
Love of Pets (April 16, 2008 01:20 PM) Source: Bideawee

ROUND ROCK, Texas--Town of North Kingstown Goes Green with Dell
(April 16, 2008 12:00 PM) Source: Dell Inc.

LOS ANGELES--Green Media Enterprises Launches the Inaugural Green
Career Center Presented by Manpower, Inc. from Green West and Green
East Expos (April 16, 2008 09:00 AM) Source: Green Media Enterprises
LLC

DENVER--Qwest Selects Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as 2008
Qwest Law Department Spirit of Diversity Partner (April 16, 2008 08:00
AM) Source: Qwest Communications International Inc.

LOS ANGELES--Thousands of Commuters Get Transportation Cost Relief
from Retailer's ''Green'' Campaign (April 15, 2008 04:17 PM) Source:
WSS-Warehouse Shoe Sale

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador--Dole Food Company and its Partners Inaugurate
Elementary School in Ecuador (April 15, 2008 03:03 PM) Source: Dole
Food Company, Inc.

PALMYRA, Wis.--Standard Process Commits $150,000 to the FCER
DCConsult Website (April 15, 2008 02:04 PM) Source: Standard Process
Inc.

PHOTO ADVISORY--Photo of The WeWhoWalk(TM) Tour Sponsored by
UnitedHealthcare visiting Annapolis as 50th and Final Stop in 50-State
Tour Available On Business Wire's Web Site and AP PhotoExpress (April
15, 2008 01:22 PM) Source: UnitedHealthcare

BOSTON--Americans Misunderstand Environmental Marketing Messages
(April 15, 2008 10:00 AM) Source: Cone LLC

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--MC Entertainment(R) Offers $1.00 Movies During
AMC Summer MovieCamp(R) (April 15, 2008 08:30 AM) Source: AMC
Entertainment Inc.

SPRING HOUSE, Pa.--Advanta and Kiva Announce the KivaB4B Project
to Empower Small Business Owners to Help Entrepreneurs in Developing
Countries (April 15, 2008 08:00 AM) Source: Advanta Corp.

CLEVELAND--NA 2008 Is Coming to Cleveland's I-X Center April 21-24
(April 15, 2008 07:00 AM) Source: Material Handling Industry of
America (MHIA)

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--Turn Green into Gold with EcoPerks.Com
(April 14, 2008 09:31 AM) Source: EcoPerks

HAWTHORNE, Calif.--Cereplast Opens European Headquarters (April
14, 2008 09:00 AM) Source: Cereplast, Inc.

MINNEAPOLIS--Ameriprise Financial Joins The Conservation Fund in
Protecting Coastal Wetlands Outside New Orleans (April 11, 2008 10:47
AM) Source: Ameriprise Financial

NEW YORK--Nielsen Business Media Attracts Top Environmental
Leaders for First-Ever Social Responsibility Summit (April 11, 2008
07:00 AM) Source: Nielsen Business Media

PITTSBURGH, Pa.--Make-A-Wish Recipient to Visit Aethon
Headquarters (April 11, 2008 06:35 AM) Source: Aethon, Inc.

DENVER--Qwest Employees Volunteer More Than 1,000 Hours in One Day
at Five Local Schools Through Partnership with Junior Achievement
(April 10, 2008 05:00 PM) Source: Qwest

INDIANAPOLIS--National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company Announce Grant Winners (April 10,
2008 02:42 PM) Source: Fireman's Fund Insurance Company

CHICAGO--Technomic Identifies Nutrition as Important Component of
Corporate Social Responsibility in Restaurant Industry (April 10, 2008
11:15 AM) Source: Technomic, Inc.

ADVISORY--Cereplast, Inc. to Present ''Cereplast and the Future of
Bioplastics'' (April 10, 2008 09:00 AM) Source: Cereplast, Inc.

MINNEAPOLIS--New Grants Available for Families Struggling with
Child Health-Related Expenses (April 10, 2008 08:30 AM) Source:
UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation

The following knowledgeable industry leaders and scholars from
Business Wire's ExpertSource database are available to discuss topics
relating to Corporate Social Responsibility.

Mike Lawrence, an Emmy-award winning journalist with more than a
quarter-century of experience in print and broadcast news, serves as
executive vice president for Corporate Responsibility and Crisis
Prevention and Management for Cone LLC. Lawrence offers clients a
wealth of experience in issues management, where the ultimate goal is
to protect and enhance brand reputation among key stakeholders.
Lawrence's areas of experience include: food safety, product recalls,
product contamination, unionization/strikes, staff cutbacks, employee
HR risks, environmental issues, retail customer service issues,
consumer/investigative media reports and more.

In the area of Corporate Responsibility, Lawrence leads a Cone
practice that specializes in CR strategy, communications, reporting,
and stakeholder engagement. Lawrence led the Cone team on a multi-year
initiative for Starbucks to enhance and communicate the company's
commitment to sustainable coffee farming and its relationships with
coffee farmers around the world. Other active CR clients include
Nestle Waters North America and Timberland.

PR Contact: Sarah Kerkian, 617-939-8389

skerkian@coneinc.com

Anita Contini is Senior Vice President and Director of Corporate
and Public Affairs for CIT. She is responsible for designing and
implementing CIT's community and public affairs activities, both
externally and internally. Contini works closely with the Executive
Committee and key business leaders to bring CIT's core vision, mission
and principles to life through the development and implementation of
programs with civic, cultural and government groups that strengthen
CIT's commitment and involvement in the markets it serves. Prior to
joining CIT, Contini served as Vice President and Director of the
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. In this role, she worked
closely with the Chairman and President of LMDC and key Board members
to develop a process and implementation plan for the Memorial,
Cultural and Civic Programs for the World Trade Center site and Lower
Manhattan. Later, she served as a First Vice President of Global
Sponsorships and Client Events Marketing at Merrill Lynch, where she
forged partnerships for the firm with leading local and international
cultural and civic institutions and public projects and instituted
programs to further business objectives and community interests.

Contini serves as Vice Chair of the Board of the Alliance for the
Arts and on the boards of The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City,
The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, and The Drawing Center. She
is an active member of the Financial Women's Association; Art Table;
American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York Chapter; and the
LMDC's Cultural and Community Enhancements Fund grant program. She was
the founder and President of the not-for-profit and award-winning arts
organization, Creative Time, and has received a number of awards for
distinguished public service from the Municipal Arts Society; Hofstra
University; AIA New York Chapter; and the Downtown Lower Manhattan
Business Association.

PR Contact: Curt Ritter, 212-461-7711

curt.ritter@cit.com

Brett Curran is a recognized expert in the governance, risk and
compliance (GRC) industry, with many innovative approaches to help
corporations ease the burdens often associated with compliance.
Because of his unique viewpoint, first as a technology manager, then
as a Chief Compliance Officer, and now as the resident expert on GRC,
privacy and ethics at Axentis, Mr. Curran can provide insight into how
compliance initiatives can be leveraged at all levels of the company,
resulting in better business performance, as well as share the history
of the compliance industry. Mr. Curran can discuss why companies
should take a risk-based approach when tackling compliance issues,
like Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA, in addition to outlining the steps
management can take to assess, manage and prioritize risks.
Specifically, in his phased compliance approach, Mr. Curran provides
organizations with the ability to drastically reduce the costs and
headaches of enacting an enterprise-wide GRC program. Mr. Curran
brings a wealth of experience in integrating governance and compliance
processes and technology to his current position at Axentis. Because
of his background in IT, he can explain the benefits of utilizing a
compliance management solution, like Axentis Enterprise, to track and
communicate corporate policies, controls and procedures. Also, Mr.
Curran can highlight examples of how an enterprise-wide approach to
compliance can help companies breeze through the auditing process by
creating a clearly documented, defensible paper trail. Mr. Curran can
also speak to the ways companies can begin to prepare for complying
with the recently approved Auditing Standard No. 5.

Moreover, he can address how existing and emerging regulations and
industry guidelines will continue to impact the everyday business
functions of management teams. Mr. Curran is a frequent speaker at
industry conferences, an influential contributor to the Open
Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) and to IBM's Data Governance
Council and a blogger for "Compliance on Demand." Previously, Mr.
Curran has held top information technology management roles at AEGON,
Inc. and served as the Director of Imaging and Electronic Workflow at
Insurdata. More recently, he was the Chief Compliance Officer
responsible for enterprise compliance at UICI, Inc. where he
established a matrix compliance organization, processes and applied
technology to address a myriad of legal, regulatory and operational
requirements using a repeatable model. Earlier, he held a variety of
technical and project management positions designing, developing and
integrating sophisticated technological solutions to simplify and
streamline complex business issues.

PR Contact: Katie Traut, 781-487-4654

ktraut@racepointgroup.com

William C. Tauber, CEO of Progressive Lighting & Energy Solutions,
Inc. is a nationally-recognized expert on energy reduction and energy
conservation. Mr. Tauber's Progressive Lighting & Energy Solutions is
an Energy Efficiency company that makes Corporations GREEN - One at a
Time. In 2007 Mr. Tauber's company assisted over 155 California
corporations, large and small, to reduce hazardous Carbon Dioxide
(CO2) Emissions by 15.6 Million Pounds while saving California
Businesses $2.8 Million in Energy Costs, earning them $1.8 Million in
Federal Tax Deductions, and $2.2 Million in Utility Rebate payments.
Mr. Tauber has created a 2008 Grant Award program called "Adopt A
City" to make one California city CARBON NEUTRAL using Carbon Credits
as offsets.

Contact: William Tauber, 714-542-5490 ext. 22

wctauber@proglighting.com

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