CAGLIARI, ITALY; July 23, 2010 – A team ofstudents from schools in Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Portugal, Norway and Finland has won the Accenture (NYSE: ACN) Enterprise without Borders High Potential award.  The award was announced at the 21^st Junior Achievement Young Enterprise (JA-YE) Europe Company of the Year Competition, hosted by JA Italy in Cagliari.

MONTREAL; May 25, 2010 –Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and The Enablis Entrepreneurial Network today announced that the Accenture Foundations have awarded Enablis an additional grant of US$348,000 to help fund the organization’s support of entrepreneurs in Africa.  This brings the total of direct support to Enablis in Africa to more than $2 million since 2007.  

NEW YORK; May 5, 2010 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN); BSI, Ltd. and NetHope have been engaged by the Tanzania Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) to create an eLearning initiative to improve the country’s secondary education system using state-of-the-art information and communications technology. The initiative, “Tanzania Beyond Tomorrow,” will help the country’s 4,000 secondary schools deal with the challenges of teacher capacity and technology enablement of more than 1.5 million students in a rapidly growing school system.

DUBLIN; April 29, 2010 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Concern today announced that the Accenture Foundations have awarded Concern US $1.5 million to fund the development of conservation farming programs in Zambia and Malawi.  The grant will be used to educate and assist local farmers and communities in sustainable farming practices.

NEW YORK; March 30, 2010 –Accenturehas been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for the third consecutive year.  Out of a record number of nominations for the award, Accenture secured a spot on the 2010 list by implementing meticulous business practices and initiatives that are instrumental to the company’s success, benefit the community and raise the bar for ethical standards.

CHICAGO, March 22, 2010 --  i.c.stars, a Chicago-based, non-profit job training program for young adults, and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) are issuing a new, step-by-step manual for non-profit organizations, which documents how i.c.stars operates its innovative IT and professional skills training program.  The program places young adults with high school diplomas or GEDs into career-track IT jobs, and i.c.stars is making the manual public through its online documentation repository or “wiki.”

NEW YORK; March 5, 2010 – Corporate leaders around the world believe that resilience – the ability to overcome challenges and turn them into opportunities – is key to keeping your job.  These leaders view women as slightly more resilient than men, and they are providing their female professionals with a variety of programs aimed at developing resilience, according to new research from Accenture (NYSE: ACN).