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Union Bank VP & Dinner Co-Chair Tisa Jackson is greeted on red carpet by MMF National Spokesperson & Actress Tatyana Ali and Actor Morris Chestnut, as Union Bank is recognized as Diamond Sponsor of 6th Annual Opening Doors Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner.
Union Bank has been an ongoing supporter of Millennium Momentum Foundation Inc's higher education, mentoring, and leadership training initiatives throughout Southern California.
Union Bank, N.A., is the 25th largest bank in the United States, based on assets. The bank has 336 branch offices in California, Washington, and Oregon; two international offices; and facilities in six other states.
- Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service commercial bank, providing a broad mix of financial services to businesses and individuals
- Among the bank's markets are consumer, small business, middle market, real estate, corporate, correspondent, and trade finance
- The bank also offers investment and financial management, trust services, private banking, insurance services, and global custody services
- HighMark® Capital Management is the bank's investment management subsidiary
- The bank's commercial clients include communications, media, entertainment, energy, public utilities, retailing, and other specialty industries
- Headquartered in San Francisco, the bank has more than 10,000 employees
- Union Bank, N.A., was the first major California bank to open a 7-days-a-week supermarket branch in 1990. The bank's holding company is UnionBanCal Corporation, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. BTMU is part of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., one of the world's leading financial companies with assets of $1.4 trillion as of September 30, 2008.
- Customers have access to the bank's 608 ATMs throughout the U.S. and to more than 300,000 ATMs worldwide through the Star(SM) and Cirrus® systems
- Cirrus, Plus, MasterCard®, Visa, Discover®, and American Express® cardholders can access the bank's ATMs
- Union Bank, N.A., also belongs to the Star and Maestro® point-of-sale networks
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Tracy Underwood of Toyota Motor Sales, USA Corporate Communications is welcomed on red carpet by Actor Morris Chestnut and guests, while Toyota Motor Sales, USA is thanked for generous grant to support academic scholarships at the 6th Annual Opening Doors Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner.
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. is the marketing, sales, distribution and customer service arm of Toyota, Lexus and Scion. Established in 1957, TMS markets products and services through a network of more than 1,400 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealers. Toyota directly employs nearly 34,000 people in the U.S. and sold more than 2.2 million vehicles in 2008.
At Toyota Motor Sales, diversity and inclusion plays a fundamental role in our quest to become the "most successful and respected automotive company in the world". Internally, we seek to create a culture of inclusion, enabling us to leverage the talents and perspectives of our entire workforce. We also believe in tailoring our external business strategy in a way that is responsive to the needs of a dynamic and diverse market.
We believe that lasting cultural change depends on several elements: a strong business case, senior management commitment, grassroots community support, external communication and our internal associates driving the change to move diversity and inclusion forward.
The TMS diversity and inclusion strategy is comprehensive and touches every aspect of our business including marketing, community outreach, recruiting, developing and retaining talent, supplier development, dealer diversity and of course, our customers.
Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion is our competitive advantage, leveraging our differences and similarities to achieve our internal and external business goals and be the most successful and respected automotive company in America.
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Ed Robinson of Southern California Edison Community Partnerships Division is joined and thanked by Carson City Council Member Mike Gipson for Southern California Edison's generous support of the 2009 MMF Leadership Development Institute and National City of Opportunity Initiative.
Southern California Edison was a leading supporter of the leadership development training, mentoring, and supportive services rendered through the Millennium Momentum Foundation, Inc. Leadership Development Institute in 2009.
Southern California Edison (SCE) is one of the largest electric utilities in California, serving more than 14 million people in a 50,000 square-mile area of central, coastal and Southern California, excluding the City of Los Angeles and certain other cities.
Based in Rosemead, California, the utility has been providing electric service in the region for more than 120 years. SCE's service territory includes more than 180 cities. As of December 2008, SCE had consolidated assets of approximately $32.6 billion. SCE has approximately 17,000 employees.
Today's Southern California Edison is the product of more than a century of providing reliable electric service to central, coastal and southern California.
We help our customers stretch their energy dollars through rebates, which they can receive through SCE's award-winning energy efficiency programs. Customers can receive incentives for helping to control power demand through "demand-response" programs, which help to keep wholesale supplies and prices under control.
As part of our commitment to environmental protection, the electric power we provide for our customers includes more alternate and renewable energy (16.7%), from a greater variety of resources, than nearly any other utility in the world. We have been active in efforts to improve Southern California air quality since the 1940s.
SCE is also an active donor to community and educational causes. SCE employee volunteers annually donate more than 700,000 hours of work to community and non-profit organizations.
SCE's ethnically and culturally diverse customer base contains one of the largest concentrations of non-English speaking residents in California. Our company celebrates and accommodates the diversity of the community it serves through in-languages services and special programs. An emphasis on diversity strategies, operational goals and accountability helped SCE maintain its rank in the top tier of Fortune magazine's annual list of the top 50 companies in America for ethnic minorities, placing high on the list at number eight. This is SCE's seventh consecutive year receiving this recognition, which highlights the company's commitment to develop a work force of first-rate professionals that embraces diversity and reflects the customers it serves.
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American Honda Executive, Charles Franklin, is joined by High-Acclaimed Actor Andy Garcia and MMF Founder & CEO, Jason L. Seward as American Honda is welcomed as Distinguished Diamond Sponsor.
American Honda served as a distinguished Diamond Sponsor for Millennium Momentum Foundation, Inc.'s 3rd & 4th Annual Opening Doors Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner. For the past 40 years, Honda has made it a priority to give back to the community. We are grateful for the support we have received from our customers and will continue to show our appreciation by honoring our obligations to society by being a contributing member, both economically and socially, to each community in which we do business. Our vision is that society will be better, in part, due to Honda's philanthropy and community leadership.
Charles Franklin of American Honda Enjoys elegant VIP Reception with Cast of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air at 4th Annual Opening Doors Gala
For more than 40 years, Honda has continued to grow and expand in America. Today, with a presence in all 50 states, our investment in sales, manufacturing and research operations in the U.S. exceeds $5.9 billion. Honda's direct employment in the U.S. rose to 24,000 associates with an annual payroll of $1.2 billion. Our plants, facilities and authorized dealerships currently employ more than 120,000 Americans. Through reinvestment of profits in the U.S., we continually modernize our plants with the newest generation of manufacturing equipment, allowing greater model flexibility, higher levels of quality and quicker response to changing consumer demands. Honda's success in the global marketplace relies on its commitment to continued investment in America's future. That's been our philosophy since we first started U.S. operations over 40 years ago.
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Verizon is thanked for generous Diamond Sponsorship as Verizon External Affairs Manager, Frank Uribe, and LaVerne G. Davis, Former Vice President of External Affairs at Verizon are joined by NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Oscar Winning Actor Lou Gossett, Jr.
Verizon has served as Diamond Sponsor for Millennium Momentum Foundation Opening Doors Scholarship Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner awarding a grant of $20,000.00 for the enhancement of the Best & the Brightest Scholarship Program, which aims to assist minority collegiate students that are pursuing careers in public policy both in the private and public sectors.
It is indeed a pleasure for Verizon to support Millennium Momentum Foundation, Inc. I personally look forward to the services provided by Millennium, as I believe it to be a moral responsibility for those in positions of leadership in corporate America to create opportunities for those young professionals that aspire to do the same", says LaVerne G. Davis, Vice President of External Affairs for Verizon. Our mission is to provide an online philanthropic community network that aims to support the more than 750,000 nonprofit organizations in America. The latest education survey states that college graduates have three times the earning power than those with only a high school diploma and the gap is getting larger. Verizon is one of the largest employers in the United States, serving over 95 million wireline customers across the United States and in strategic international markets. It is committed to promoting the value of education as the major tool for economic self-sufficiency to build strong, sustainable communities. Our partners will include organizations that support education and literacy, health and human services, and community technology development. Our employees will earn more than $12 million dollars in grants for nonprofit organizations with which they volunteer their time and financial resources - making Verizon one of the largest supporters of employee volunteerism in the world.