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Edgar Villanueva is an expert on philanthropy and a member of the Lumbee Native American Tribe in North Carolina. After spending years in the institutional philanthropic sector, he wrote “Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance,” which looks into how money — which has often been used…
Louisville Business First’s Partners in Philanthropy recognized the Humana foundation on its list of Louisville-area companies who made generous cash donations last year. Humana is no. 42 on DiversityInc’s 2019 Top 50 Companies for Diversity list. It also ranks no. 7 on the Top Companies for Philanthropy specialty list. The…
Toyota Motor North America is No. 34 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list Four months after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, the streets in Houston are still littered with signs of the historic storm’s destructive force: drywall stacked up on curbs, children’s toys mangled and water damaged, a favorite couch…
Wells Fargo & Company (No. 9 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) announced Nov. 28 the launch of the Wells Fargo Holiday Food Bank program to make more meals possible in communities this holiday season. Working with United Way Worldwide to create a long-term, high impact program that will…
As Ferguson tries to heal the racial fractures that divided the community in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting, one DiversityInc Top 50 company is doing its part to help the area’s residents. St. Louisbased Monsanto, No. 46 in the DiversityInc Top 50, announced that it will donate $1…
John D. Kemp President and CEO The Viscardi Center John D. Kemp is the President & CEO of The Viscardi Center, a network of non-profit organizations that provides a lifespan of services that educate, employ and empower children and adults with disabilities, based in Albertson, NY. He is widely respected…
By Barbara Frankel DiversityInc Top 50 companies, which have significantly more racial and ethnic diversity in their management and workforces and more gender diversity in their management than most companies, average 1.46 percent of their gross revenue going to charitable contributions. By contrast, Giving USA notes that the average for…
By Tierra Moore Piens, The Greenlining Institute Philanthropy changes lives. I know, because it changed mine. When I arrived at UCLA my first prioritywasn’tmaking new friends or signing up for student organizations it was finding a job. And I did. I knew that financing my college education was going to…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KeyBank Foundation Awards $1.25 Million to Cleveland Metropolitan School District and Cleveland State University for “STEM” Classrooms on Cleveland State Campus CMSD, CSU to create joint campus for 11thand 12thgraders at MC2STEM High School CLEVELAND January 8, 2013 KeyBank Foundationhas awarded a $1.25 million grant that will…
Merck & Co. has ended all of its funding to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) because of the organization’s refusal to allow gay and lesbian scouts and leaders. The decision was praised by gay-rights organizations, including GLAAD and Scouts for Equality, which have avidly petitioned corporations to take a…
