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Giving Back: May 14
Compiled by the DiversityInc staff
May 14, 2008
Aflac Chairman and CEO Dan Amos and Aflac Foundation President Kathelen Amos donated $50,000 to the Emory Winship Cancer Institute. The Amos' donation was made in honor of Aflac's Black, female employees, who make up 30 percent of Aflac's work force and are more likely than any other race to fall victim to triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive and therapy-resistant cancer. The donation will help the Emory Winship Cancer Institute to host a free symposium on triple-negative breast-cancer research, beginning May 16 in Atlanta.
Prudential Financial contributed $5 million to help establish a new location for the Rutgers Business School--Newark and New Brunswick. Of the donation, $3 million will help to fund a chair at the business school, and the remainder will establish a center that will focus on business ethics and business and philanthropic leadership. Prudential Financial is No. 24 on The 2008 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® list.
AT&T will launch a $100-million giving and community-enrichment program, "AT&T Aspire," that will work to reverse the trend of increasing high-school dropout rates among Black, Latino and Native American students. The program will provide grants to schools and organizations that will help better prepare students for the work force, provide job shadowing for 100,000 students, organize dropout-prevention summits, and initiate research on high-school dropout issues as a means of providing solutions. AT&T is No. 22 on The 2008 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list.
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates signed an agreement with the Telefonica Foundation that promotes the use of information and communication technology for the improvement of education in Latin America. The agreement between Microsoft and the Telefonica Foundation will develop an online training network for Latin American teachers called Innovative Professors. The network will consist of an online portal and forum that will help teachers develop innovative teaching strategies, will allow them to exchange information with other teachers, and will feature seminars, activities and curricula to promote IT literacy among teachers. Innovative Professors has already been established in Spain, Mexico and Colombia, and will soon be expanded to Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru.
MetLife Foundation has awarded $815,000 to the Alzheimer's Association. The award consists of a $400,000 grant that will go toward Alzheimer's awareness in the Latino community. The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is expected to increase by 600 percent among this population by 2050. A second grant of $415,000 was awarded for the Emergency Responders Outreach Initiative, which will develop national training for emergency officials who may come in contact with individuals who suffer from Alzheimer's disease or dementia. MetLife Foundation is a steadfast financial supporter of "research, advocacy and programming around Alzheimer's disease and has been providing grant support to the Alzheimer's Association for more than two decades."
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