Tag: HRC Foundation

HRC Foundation Announces Record Participation in Upcoming 2025 Corporate Equality Index, Docks Scores of Seven Companies in Current Ranking Following Their Pullback From Workplace Inclusion

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation announced that seven companies – Ford, Molson Coors, Tractor Supply Co., John Deere, Lowe’s, Harley-Davidson and Brown-Forman – will face significant deductions on their current Corporate Equality Index scores in response to their reflexive, anti-consumer and anti-employee decision to abandon previously-stated commitments to the values of inclusion and responsible corporate citizenship. These handful of rollbacks come as the HRC Foundation is seeing record participation of more than 1,400 companies in the 2025 Corporate Equality Index, due to be released in early 2025. HRC President Kelley…

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“Welcoming Schools,” HRC Foundation’s Award-Winning Anti-Bullying Program Reaches Record 750,000 Students, Supporting Communities Amid Wave of Anti-LGBTQ+ Book Bans, Classroom Censorship

Stuart Mitchell

The Welcoming Schools program — the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC)’s program to ensure pre-K-12 school communities have access to the tools and knowledge necessary to support family diversity, prevent bias-based bullying and support transgender and non-binary students — released its fourth annual report detailing the growth and impact of their work amidst widespread attacks on LGBTQ+ students, families and communities nationwide. This year, the Welcoming Schools program provided 180 training sessions to 13,000 educators and school leaders who reach approximately 750,000 students each day. Welcoming Schools’ efforts have been…

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HRC Foundation Releases First-Ever Report Detailing Steps for Businesses to Become LGBTQ+ Allies in Action

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, released its first-ever Corporate Citizenship Report, The LGBTQ+ Corporate Citizen: A Framework for Emerging Best Practices in Allyship. The new report offers guidance to companies that want to invest in closing the ally gap. The ally gap acknowledges that LGBTQ+ allyship is a journey and describes the space between the intent to be an LGBTQ+ ally and the actions needed to get there. HRC Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Report…

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HRC Foundation’s 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index Shows Record-Breaking Business Support for LGBTQ+ Community

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, released its 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring company policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality for more than two decades. A reflection of the majority sentiment on LGBTQ+ issues, and in stark contrast to radical legislative attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, a record 1,384 businesses participated this year, including 378 of the Fortune 500 companies. In total, 545 companies earned…

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The HRC Foundation Launches New Financial Wellness Platform for LGBTQ+ Community

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, is proud to launch WorthIt, a new financial wellness platform for LGBTQ+ community members that provides tools needed to navigate challenging, often discriminatory systems and gain more economic stability. Recent research shows the likelihood of LGBTQ+ adults living in poverty is greater than their cisgender, straight peers in part due to higher rates of unemployment and underemployment. The challenges faced by LGBTQ+ people when seeking employment have widened the income gap,…

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