The UPS Foundation To Award More Than $7.7 Million To Promote Global Diversity & Inclusion
July 28 2017 - 09:30AM
Today, The UPS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of UPS (NYSE:
UPS), announced it will award more than $7.7 million in global
diversity and inclusion grants to 39 organizations. The grants will
support economic empowerment, initiatives to empower women and
girls, and, workplace inclusion.
“We are proud to partner with organizations that are innovating
and making measurable impacts on the lives of people all over the
world,” said Eduardo Martinez, president of The UPS Foundation and
chief diversity and inclusion officer at UPS. “The diversity and
inclusion initiatives we are supporting will help advance the
United Nation’s Sustainable Development goals and drive positive
change to make the world a better place for this generation and
generations to come.”
Among the organizations receiving grants are three nonprofits
that stand out in terms of their innovation and impact:
- Graca Machel Trust, a pan-African advocacy organization focused
on women’s economic and financial empowerment, child health and
nutrition and education, among other areas. Graca Machel is the
former First Lady of Mozambique and the widow of Nelson Mandela.
The UPS Foundation grants will support two key Graca Machel
programs: the Raising Voices for Women Cross Border Trading
initiative to help women in West Africa, who comprise nearly 80
percent of the Cross Border Traders, formalize their business, and,
the Women Advancing Africa Forum, which will be held in August 2017
and will focus on addressing economic imbalances in Africa.
- Strive for College, an organization that encourages students in
public schools to apply for college and helps them find the money
to fund their education. In 2016, 99 percent of Strive students
went to college (most of them first generation college students in
their families) and 89 percent required no debt for tuition. The
UPS Foundation grants will help the organization scale its program
to reach 100,000 low-income students this year.
- The Peace Corps to support the implementation of the Let Girls
Learn Project, a five-year project launched by former President
Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama in 2015 that aims to
eliminate barriers to education for 62 million girls in 60
countries. In 2016, the program reached 1 million people and
resulted in 296 Let Girls Learn Projects in 39 countries and 628
volunteer-led projects in 56 countries. The new Administration will
continue the program under a re-branded name.
Additional grant recipients include the following
organizations:
Additional economic empowerment grants:
- Expansion of Aspira of America, Inc.’s
financial education program to 240 Latino youth and families by
training and reaching 500,000 Latino households
- Funding to expand the Council for Economic
Education’s Center for Economic and Financial Education,
teaching financial literacy to more than 250,000 students in New
York City
- Support of the Cuban American National Council
and its Financial Literacy and First Time Homebuyer Education
Workshops
- Development of Native Edge, an online business development and
training ecosystem through the National Center for American
Indian Enterprise Development
- Support for the National Urban Fellows
placement of a Class of 2017 National Urban Fellow
- Providing entrepreneurial skills development through the
National Urban League, Inc.
- Delivering career development and professional networking
resources to disabled individuals, awarded to the National
Organization on Disability and The Viscardi
Center
- Support for World Association of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts (WAGGGS) to increase participation of young women
and to expand the leadership potential and capacity of WAGGGS’s
member organizations
- Accion International to support the
organization’s work in Nigeria to bring high-quality, affordable
financial services to nearly 750,000 individuals by 2020
- Funding to assist Opportunity International,
Inc. in expanding its financial and training services to
reach more than 40,000 low-income Colombian women
- Support of Catalyst for Women’s learning
website, which provides leadership training and business skills to
women around the world
Education empowerment grants:
- Improving literacy, school engagement, college readiness and
youth development, awarded to CHOICES Education
Group, the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, and the National
Black Child Development Institute
- Offering scholarships for continuing education through the
African Leadership Foundation, American
Indian College Fund, Brigham Young
University, Clark Atlanta University, the
Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Inc., Morehouse
College, Spelman College, the
United Negro College Fund, Inc., and 100
Black Men of America, Inc.
- Strengthening leadership and empowerment of students, awarded
to the National Council of La Raza,
Council of Independent Colleges, Girls
Incorporated, Strive for College, and the
Organization of Chinese Americans
Inclusion grants:
- Contributions to the Alexander Graham Bell Association
for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing’s Knowledge Center
website, supporting 250,000 children
- American Corporate Partners toward support for
the mentoring program for transitioning military veterans as they
enter the civilian workforce
- Hispanic Association on Corporate
Responsibility for key events support
- Support of the Human Rights Campaign
Foundation’s website as a source of information on LGBTQ
issues
- Growing the volunteer network for the Special Olympics
of Georgia, Inc.
- Funding to support Braille literacy programming for the
National Federation of the Blind
- Executive Leadership Foundation supporting
leadership development for high potential African American
candidates
- Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) to support
Operation PAVE, the PVA’s vocational rehabilitation program; toward
support for the National Veterans Wheelchair Games; and additional
support
- National Organization on Disability (NOD) to
increase employment opportunities for college graduates with
disabilities through the Campus to Careers program
Human trafficking prevention grants:
- Leadership Conference Education Fund toward
its human trafficking program and the creation of a toolkit to give
individuals and organizations the power to confront trafficking in
the U.S., and address the nature of trafficking as it affects
people of color and minors, particularly LGBTQ youth
- United Way Worldwide Center for Human Trafficking and
Slavery toward a community training curriculum
For more information about UPS’s philanthropic and volunteerism
efforts, please visit www.UPS.com/Foundation.
About The UPS Foundation
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering a
broad range of solutions including the transportation of packages
and freight; the facilitation of international trade, and the
deployment of advanced technology to more efficiently manage the
world of business. Since its founding in 1907, UPS has built a
legacy as a caring and responsible corporate citizen, supporting
programs that provide long-term solutions to community needs.
Founded in 1951, The UPS Foundation leads its global citizenship
programs and is responsible for facilitating community involvement
to local, national, and global communities. In 2016, UPS and its
employees, active and retired, invested more than $116 million in
charitable giving around the world. The UPS Foundation can be found
on the web at UPS.com/Foundation. To get The
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Kristen Petrella
404-828-4182
kpetrella@ups.com
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