By Chris Hoenig
Caterpillar, one of Fair360, formerly DiversityInc’s 25 Noteworthy Companies, has stopped giving grants from its charitable foundation to the Boy Scouts of America.
Caterpillar spokeswoman Rachel Potts said the decision was made while reviewing a $25,000 grant application from a local scout group in the company’s home state of Illinois. And while Potts says the move isn’t directly tied to the Boy Scouts’ half-hearted decision to allow openly gay scouts but continue banning LGBT scout leaders, she does call the policy “discriminatory.”
