Chris Crespo, EY Chris Crespo, Americas inclusiveness director, has played a vital role as EY became a leader in LGBT equality. "It’s so special to get people to the table and see them being valued, thriving and even surpassing their own expectations,” she said. "I get to help people and businesses realize success
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By Melissa Lowery, Photos by Elizabeth Parker Photographie For the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a commitment to advocating on behalf of the LGBT community is a commitment to bringing together two communities that are learning to embrace each other. USHCC’s efforts on behalf of LGBT business owners transcend emotional and social issues and
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Spring is here and let me tell you I’m ready. It was an especially tough winter here in the Northeast, but not tough enough to keep our Affinity Inc Magazine team down. Before we get into what you will find in this issue, I want to take a minute of personal privilege and share a
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Funders for LGBTQ Issues, a group that advocates for institutional funding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, has released the 2012 Tracking Report: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations. Released in late 2013, the report indicated that domestic foundation funding for LGBTQ issues exceeded $100 million for the first
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finds more cities working toward LGBT equality In addition to the Corporate Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign issues the Municipality Equality Index, an annual scorecard on cities and their support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals who live and work locally. The study ranked each city on nondiscrimination laws, relationship recognition, employment and
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for exemplary advocacy, service Photos by Amy Mayes Photography The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce has named Capital One Financial Corp. as its 2013 Corporation of the Year and ZippyDogs LLC as its LGBT Supplier of the Year. The awards were announced during the organization’s 2013 National Dinner at the National Building Museum
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Affinity Inc Magazine Salutes its Top 40/73 Corporations for LGBT Business Equality In December, the Human Rights Campaign released its 2014 Corporate Equality Index, an annual survey of U.S. companies regarding their LGBT-related policies, such as nondiscrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, supplier diversity and engagement with the LGBT community. Of 934 companies surveyed, a record
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2013 started and ended with more promise for equality than I could have imagined. Lesson learned — we have to dream big. From the Human Rights Campaign Inaugural Ball in January celebrating the second term of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden all the way to the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of
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Authenticity is a recurring theme across the LGBT business equality movement these days. We are encouraged to bring our authentic selves to the work- place. For those of us who are business owners, we are told to pay close attention to our executive presence as it is informed by individual authenticity and choice of outward
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