Wal-Mart Stores announced a donation of $10,000 to The ASPIRA Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing educational opportunities for young Latinos around the nation.
The goal of this project is to increase the quality of the current ASPIRA Youth Leadership curriculum to use as a national sample for other youth-leadership programs and to improve the exposure of young Latinos to the program.
Wal-Mart Stores is No. 41 on The 2007 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® list.
KPMG Foundation announced $10,000 in scholarships to 45 people of color studying business doctoral programs. This initiative is part of company efforts to improve the number of students and professors in the nation's business schools.
The KMPG Foundation has donated more than $9 million in scholarship funds to nearly three-fourths of the nation's accounting students of color. Along with KPMG Foundation's $20-million PhD Project, the scholarship program has helped to nearly triple the number of business professors of color in the United States. The foundation reports that there are 869 business-school professors of color (out of a total of 26,000 business-school professors) teaching in the country, up from 294 in 1994 when the project began. There are 377 people of color enrolled in business doctoral programs.
The KPMG Foundation Doctoral Scholarship Program's mission is to improve the rate of accounting doctorate degrees among black, Latino and Native American students.
AT&T donated $25,000 to the Georgia aquarium to increase the number of educational programs in the city. The grant will allow members of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta to participate in these programs free of charge.
Around 50,000 students participate in the Atlanta Aquarium educational programs every year. The programs are assigned according to children's grade levels. Students are able to interact with animals as part of the learning process.
AT&T's philanthropic mission is to help increase the access to technology and to improve students' development in professional-skills and technology trainings.
AT&T is No. 3 on The 2007 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list, No. 1 on the Top 10 Companies for African Americans list and No. 3 on the Top 10 Companies for Recruitment & Retention list.
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