Business Wire and CSRwire to Co-Host New York Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility

Business Wire and CSRwire to Co-Host New York Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility

November 15, 2005

NEW YORK-

What:

Business Wire and CSRwire to Co-Host Fall Media Conference,

“Communicating Your Company’s Values: How Corporate Social

Responsibility Impacts the Bottom Line.”

When:

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

8:30 AM Registration in Main Lobby/Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Program

Where:

Reuters U.S. Headquarters

Three Times Square, New York, NY

42nd Street & Seventh Avenue

Who:

Investor Relations, Public Relations and Corporate

Communications practitioners as well as Media representatives

who are interested in learning about the Corporate Social

Responsibility initiative.

Topic:

Learn why it is vital to manage and communicate your company’s

social responsibility and how to continuously foster an

honorable reputation in the eyes of the media, investors and

the general public.

Moderator:

Joe Sibilia, President & CEO, Meadowbrook Lane Capital

Panelists:

Matthias Stausberg, Communications Officer, United Nations,

Global Compact Office

Hewson Baltzell, President & Co-Founder, Innovest Strategic

ValueAdvisors, Inc.

Gillian Caldwell, Executive Director, WITNESS

Marc Gunther, Senior Writer, FORTUNE

Registration Information:

Advance registration and photo IDs are required.

E-mail Francine Vida at [email protected],

or call 1-(212)-752-9600 ext. 1361 no later than November 15.

About CSRwire

CSRwire is the leading source of corporate social responsibility and sustainability,

press releases, reports and news. CSRwire members are companies and NGOs, agencies and organizations interested in communicating their corporate citizenship, sustainability, and socially responsible initiatives to a global audience through CSRwire’s syndication network and weekly News Alerts.

Meadowbrook Lane Capital, CSRwire’s parent company, has been described as a ‘socially responsible investment bank’ by the Wall Street Journal. The company specializes in turning values into valuation while concentrating on succession issues for mission driven companies.

About Business Wire:

Business Wire was founded in 1961 by chairman/CEO Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations executive. The company’s multi-channel delivery network, with access to some 60 international and national news agencies, financial information providers and Web-based news services throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, provides real-time, simultaneous access to key audiences — the news media, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers.

Business Wire electronically disseminates some 1,000 full-text news releases daily to the media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the global investment community in 150 countries in 45 languages. Business Wire has 24 U.S. offices, Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Paris, Sydney and Tokyo offices, and reciprocal offices throughout the world.