Business
Goya Gives Initial Donation of Three Tons of Food to Victims of the Volcano in Guatemala
Goya Foods, America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, has made an initial donation of three tons of Goya products, including canned beans, meat, and vegetables to victims of the volcano in Guatemala.
HR Essentials for Supervisors and Managers
We live in a litigious society and businesses are not immune. Protecting your company involves ensuring your managers and supervisors are trained on important HR laws and best practices. Whether you’ve been recently promoted, are a veteran supervisor or are working a non-HR job with HR responsibilities, this workshop is worth the investment.
Nonprofit Utopia Launches on Mighty Networks to Develop the Next Generation of Ethical Leaders
“Baby Boomers are retiring, and Millennials now make up the largest segment of the workforce”, said Valerie F. Leonard, the Founder of Nonprofit Utopia, LLC. There’s still a lot of work to be done in our communities, and we can’t afford to have a leadership void in the nonprofit sector”
Flowers Communications Group Celebrates 27 Years of Multicultural Expertise
“At FCG, we don’t just “do” multicultural, we live it and breathe it,” says Michelle Flowers Welch, the agency’s founder and CEO. “We are the culture, and it’s been reflected in our work for the past 27 years.”
Out for Undergrad (O4U) Names Goldman Sachs as Host of LGBTQ Undergrad Leadership Business Conference for the Fourth Consecutive Year
We are very excited and honored to again welcome Goldman Sachs as the host sponsor of our Business Conference. We connect deeply with their values about fostering inclusion as a priority by ‘sustaining a work environment where people feel comfortable bringing their full selves to work and are empowered to reach their full potential. Students tell us that these weekend immersions change their lives, inspiring them to live authentically, bring their full and best selves to the workplace and pursue challenging, ambitious and purposeful careers.’”
80 US Communities to Fight Local Hunger with Bees
Bees are essential for the pollination of so much of the food Americans eat. Guillermo Fernandez, Director of The Honeybee Conservancy notes, “One in three bites of food we eat depends entirely on bees—and they are dying out. Bees inhabit the juncture where sustainability, science, and the local food movement intersect.
Strategic Wealth Partners Celebrates Ten Years of Service
A Monday morning quarterback might say 2008 was not the best year to launch a wealth management firm.
New Report on Youth Joblessness Highlights Statewide Crisis for Employers
With a well-documented story of critical labor shortages across the country and especially in the Midwest, a new report focuses on the tens of thousands of young people in Illinois, not just young Black and Hispanic males in the state’s inner cities metropolitan areas, but also white youths in the state’s rural western and southern areas, who are out of school and out of work, and who, with an adequate investment of public funds, have the potential to fill those vacant positions.
200 Cities and Counties Now “Open for Solar Business”
The 200 SolSmart designees are in 35 states and the District of Columbia and represent over 59 million Americans.
White Castle® Launches Festivities for 27th Annual National Hamburger Month
White Castle, America’s first fast food hamburger chain and home of Time Magazine’s Most Influential Burger, will pay its respects to the very slider that made it one of the most Crave-able restaurant chains in the country.
Obama Foundation Announces New Program to Train Emerging Leaders Across Africa
The Obama Foundation today announced a new addition to its international programs: the Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa. This one-year leadership development and civic engagement program will train and support 200 promising young leaders across Africa working in government, civil society, and the private sector. The Foundation received nearly 10,000 applications for 200 slots.
Kellogg’s® Celebrates Mike Schultz with First-Ever U.S. Paralympian Gold Medal Edition Corn Flakes® Box
“It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.,” said Schultz. “I’m so thankful for my family, who have been with me every step of my journey, and the support from Team USA and Team Kellogg’s.”
Black Women’s Roundtable Releases Its Fifth Annual Report
On Wednesday, March 28th, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s (NCBCP) Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) closed out Women’s History Month and Black Women’s Week, by hosting a tele-briefing to release its Fifth Annual Black Women in the U.S. Report, which assesses the challenges, triumphs and overall contemporary condition of Black women in the United States in 2018. This year’s report is entitled “Time for a Power Shift” and takes an in-depth look at the issue of power and exactly where Black women fall socially, politically, economically, spiritually and health-wise.
GoLookUp Will Now Allow Users to Search for Unclaimed Money
The term Abandoned Money was coined in relation to money that people essentially left behind and forgot about. As of today, there are nearly $60 billion of unclaimed and abandoned money that people all across the U.S. can claim back at any time.
