KPMG donated $8.5 million to multicultural organizations in 2008.

Multicultural employees at this top accounting firm have access to career counseling, mentoring and coaching from day one. It’s one of many ways KPMG develops a high number of strong candidates for executive positions. Across the firm, multicultural circles (staffed by senior managers and partners) offer support and career guidance to keep these employees moving ahead. Advice also comes from new corporate courses that show women of color how to develop and market their own “brand” and communicate their strengths effectively. Up next: the 2-Up program to bring female partners of color into contact with those two levels above them to provide greater exposure to top jobs.

Multicultural Women: 16%

Multicultural Women Managers/Execs: 9%

Chief Diversity Officer: Angela L. Avant

Hires who are multicultural women: 19%

Hires who are multicultural men: 16%

Multicultural women managers/execs: 9%

Multicultural men managers/execs: 11%

Top 20% earners who are multicultural women: 5%

Top 20% earners who are multicultural men: 10%

Multicultural women on board of directors: 6%

Offers formal compensation program to reward managers who specifically help multicultural women advance: YES

Rates managers on the number of multicultural women employees advancing: NO

Uses outside recruiter to focus on finding multicultural women candidates: YES

Offers support groups specifically for multicultural women: YES

Offers mentoring programs specifically geared toward multicultural women early in their careers: YES

Offers sponsorship program specifically geared toward multicultural women early in their careers: YES