Boston's 44th annual Walk for Hunger, traditionally raising money for food pantries and other groups that provide direct and emergency food aid, raised $3.6-million from some 43,000 participants.
For the first time, community gardens, food cooperatives, and purchasing clubs that arrange discounts for needy customers could be among the recipients of funds from Project Bread.
The event, started in 1969, has
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.