Root Capital provides capital, delivers financial training, and strengthens market connections to small and growing businesses – such as farmer cooperatives – that build sustainable livelihoods and transform rural communities in poor, environmentally vulnerable places. Since its launch in 1999, it has provided more than $200 million in loans to 282 small and growing businesses, representing 400,000 individuals in 30 countries throughout Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Root Capital maintains an impressive 99% repayment rate from its borrowers and a 100% repayment rate to

The 36-month electricity contract includes Renewable Energy Certificates that will save an estimated 105 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions — the equivalent of CO2 emissions from 28,909 gallons of gasoline, based on a U.S. non-baseload CO2 emissions rate — over the contract period.

For every person that visits www.LetsTalkPeriod.com and registers their email address during September 2010, Seventh Generation will donate $1 in their name to OCRF to support programs for those battling the disease. The donation will be capped at $10,000.

Tessitura members are executives and administrators, fundraisers, marketers, web and social media specialists, and box office managers for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations with annual operating budgets ranging from less than $1 million up to $300 million. According to its licensees, Tessitura software supported tens of millions of ticketing and admissions transactions and processed hundreds of millions in donations during 2009.

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The all-new Ford Focus Electric, which debuts in late 2011 in the U.S. and 2012 in Europe, will be powered by a lithium-ion battery system that utilizes cooled and heated liquid to regulate battery temperature, extend battery life and maximize driving range

The Five Star Restoration Program grants will fund a range of projects, from restoring ocean-side bluffs in Golden Gate National Park to re-planting neglected urban forests in Philadelphia. Additional project locations include Boston, Indianapolis, Memphis, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Oakland, and the greater Los Angeles area.

The platform helps Children International manage their product donations more efficiently. Items such as clothes, textbooks, school supplies, shoes, hygiene items and medical supplies needed to help children and families living in poverty around the world are donated by Children International corporate partners through the website. The new web platform will also provide Children International and its international agencies throughout Latin America, Asia, Africa and the United States the ability to post their needs on the Aidmatrix Network and share them with all the members.

Rise in spending power leads to increase in consumption of paints and coatings LANXESS manufactures pigments and preservatives for the paints and coatings industry

Amdocs Limited (NYSE: DOX) today announced that Dov Baharav, President and CEO of Amdocs Management Limited.

Films Pazhassi Raja, Bhramaram, Evidam Swargamanu, Paleri Manikyam nominated for the Best Malayalam film; Mammootty, Jayaram, Mohanlal and Prithviraj nominated for Best Actor Award while Swetha Menon, Kaniha, Mamta Mohandas and Priyanka for Best Actress.

At a hearing on Friday 27 August at Folkestone Magistrates Court, the owner/skipper of a UK Registered fishing trawler was prosecuted following an incident in the Traffic Separation Scheme off Texel, Netherlands on the 9 January 2009.

The meeting took place at the Royal Society.

Early this morning a red Avocet kayak answering the description of the one used by missing female kayaker, Elizabeth Ashbee, a member of Shrewsbury Kayak Club, was found on the beach at Morfa Nefyn on the Lleyn peninsular. There is no apparent damage to the craft. It has now been confirmed that the craft was the one being used by Ms Ashbee.
The North Wales Police were informed who have now inspected the vessel and the maritime search and rescue operation has now resumed. The family of the missing woman has been informed.

UK Border Agency officers have foiled an attempt to smuggle a mysterious brief case full of dead pigeons into the UK.