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Verizon Communications*

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Headquarters 
New York, NY
It’s a Fact! 

In 2009, Verizon Communications spent $120 million on its employee tuition assistance program, an increase of $2 million from the previous year.

Employees 
213572

Creating a new generation of diverse leaders preoccupies this massive broadband and communications company, which offers a variety of programs to educate and develop its multicultural women.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Headquarters 
New York, NY
It’s a Fact! 

New African-American hires in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ intensive three-day Vanguard on-boarding program call the experience “transformative.”

Employees 
29933

Keeping diversity top of mind during the economic downturn was important to this accounting firm, which offers audit and assurance, tax and advisory services.

PepsiCo

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Headquarters 
Purchase, NY
It’s a Fact! 

PepsiCo is a founding partner and 20-plus year-sponsor of the Executive Leadership Council, which helps African-American men and women advance.

Employees 
63137

Sponsoring the first leadership program specifically devoted to the needs of multicultural women was a watershed moment for this consumer goods company, which signed on in 2007 as a corporate partner of Ascent, an organization that seeks leadership roles for multicultural women.

MetLife

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Headquarters 
New York, NY
It’s a Fact! 

MetLife’s Women in Finance network helps female officers broaden their skills and form professional alliances.

Employees 
36497

Nothing speaks as loudly as results, which is why female agents flock to the Women’s Sales Forum offered by this insurance, employee benefits and financial services provider: It shows them how to promote their business and increase sales, allowing them to stand out from the crowd.

KPMG*

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Headquarters 
New York, NY
It’s a Fact! 

40% of KPMG employees belong to at least one of its six diversity networks, which boast 118 local chapters.

Employees 
20335

Women and minorities comprise 60% of the workforce at this audit, tax and advisory services firm, which employs a full-time team of diversity recruiters to seek out the best in the field.

JPMorgan Chase

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Headquarters 
New York, NY
It’s a Fact! 

JPMorgan Chase will match up to $1,000 of an employee’s annual donation to charity.

Employees 
176234

Working smarter, not harder, is the idea behind the Career Advancement program for employees at this financial services corporation.

IBM

IBM logo

Headquarters 
Armonk, NY
It’s a Fact! 

IBM’s Taking the Stage™ program shows female employees how to project an aura of leadership whenever they speak at work.

Employees 
116737

Women make up 31% of employees at this technology juggernaut, and they got a big boost last year with the introduction of its North American Women’s Council.

Goldman Sachs

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Headquarters 
New York, NY
It’s a Fact! 

Goldman Sachs associates can sign up for its Women’s Career Strategies Initiative, a five-month program that helps them prepare to be VPs.

Employees 
12776

Opportunities abound for women at this investment bank, thanks to a wide array of new programs.

Deloitte*

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Headquarters 
New York, NY
It’s a Fact! 

55% of participants in Deloitte’s Leadership Development Program, which helps multicultural employees overcome obstacles to success, are women.

Employees 
39065

Efforts to increase the status of female employees have led to impressive figures at this professional services firm, which now has ten times the number of female partners, principals and directors that it had in the mid-1990s.

Citi

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Headquarters 
New York, NY
It’s a Fact! 

38% of Citi’s female managers are multicultural women.

Employees 
102101

Supporting multicultural women is a top priority for this global financial services company, which boasts a whopping seven women’s councils in North America alone.

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