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Equalizer Award Honors Corporations for Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives
March 26th’s Career Bazaar & Hiring Fair will close from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for the day’s capstone event: The 2nd Annual Equalizer Awards Luncheon. Last year’s honorees were kept secret and revealed at the luncheon in an Oscar-like presentation. The “Oscar tradition” will continue this year in honoring area employers. However, the Urban League has announced that Tammy Edwards, Director of Inclusion and Leadership Development at Sprint Nextel, will receive an Equalizer Award for Individual Achievement.
In 2007, 275 luncheon guests watched as Sprint Nextel was honored with the first ever Equalizer Award. Saint Luke’s Health System and Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLC were each presented with Working Toward Equality commendations for demonstrating significant progress in some areas of diversity and inclusion. The Equalizer Award for Individual Achievement was given to Margaret Evans, Ph.D., SPHR, director of Human Resources for the Government Employees Healthcare Association, Inc. (GEHA).
The Equalizer Award was established to recognize area employers for achievement in diversity and inclusion practices. It is part of an area wide Opportunity Compact to hasten social and economic parity and close equality gaps that persist between Blacks and Whites. The disparities are reported in The 2007 State of Black Kansas City Equality Index, which waspublished last December.
Gwen Grant, Urban League president and CEO, said: ““Even though the Equality Index shows that substantial improvement is needed to achieve equality in the area of employment, we believe that many corporations are taking steps in the right direction and we want to recognize those |
efforts. The Equalizer Award is the perfect way to do so, and bestowing it in conjunction with our Annual Career Bazaar & Hiring Fair makes perfect sense. I encourage all supporters of diversity and inclusion to attend the 2008 Equalizer Award Luncheon and celebrate employers that exhibit best practices.”
For Equalizer Award Luncheon tickets and/or a free copy of The 2007 State of Black Kansas City Equality Index, call 816-471-0550, ext. 21 or 28. Luncheon tickets are $50 each; $500 for a table of 10.
How to Drive Corporate Profits by Leveraging Diversity!
Workshop sanctioned for 2 hours of CEUs for HR professionals
The discussion on diversity and inclusion continues after the Equalizer Awards Luncheon with the Symposium on Diversity & Inclusion, a seminar for human resource professionals, diversity officers/staff, company leaders, and other interested parties. This year’s Symposium topic is: How to Drive Corporate Profits by Leveraging Diversity, and the event is being sponsored by Adecco, a global leader in human resource solutions. A program outline and speaker bios can be viewed at www.ulkc.org.
The Symposium runs from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on March 26th at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel. Cost to attend is $85 per person or $125 for the Symposium and the Equalizer Awards Luncheon. Registrations are required: 816-471-0550, ext. 28 or bugoline@ulkc.org.
Note: The Human Resource Certification Institute, an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management, has sanctioned this program. PHRs, SPHRs and GPHRS will be eligible to receive for 2.0 continuing education credits.
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